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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Anything that isn't writing is easy
When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.
I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.
The only people I don't answer are bill collectors.
I always react to news immediately. That's my business.
The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover
Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.
I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
As far as getting publicity whenever he wants it, Trump is the white Al Sharpton.
A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.
Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!
Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.
Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
The financial people, who lead such dreary lives, believe what they read and see on television.
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.
I'm the best person ever to have a column in this business. There's never been anybody in my league.
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.
The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.
Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.
Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.
You can get some work, some jobs that will bore you until you're dead. So you better look for something that's got a little tingle to it.
That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.
Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers
The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.
True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.
Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.
Trump survives by Corum's Law. This is a famous, well-tested theory and is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst papers when they were in New York.
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.
If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.
The trouble with Trump's father was that he was a totally naive man. He had no idea that you could buy the whole news reporting business in New York City with a return phone call.