Jimmy Breslin Quotes


"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Drinking, First, Personality)

"Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: People, Friends, Talk)

"The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Money)

"The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Nothing)

"The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Work, First, Night)

"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: English, Language, Past)

"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Quality, Newspapers, Writing)

"Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Men, Politics, Act, President, Public)

"Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Football)

"Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Interest, News, Public, Television)

"Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Credibility)

"Media, the plural of mediocrity."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Media, Mediocrity)

"If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Impatience, Interest, Man, News, Profit, Public, Tears)

"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Life, Beer, Job, Newspapers, Rest, Writing)