Words matter. These are the best Jimmy Breslin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
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 number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.
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.
Media, the plural of mediocrity.
A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.
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.
Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
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 professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.
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.
You get a little picture that reflects the whole. You can get readers interested in the life of one guy, and he can reflect the whole life around him. And it’s a better picture than the politicians give you.
Some time ago, I made a basic decision about the way in which I was going to live the little of life available to me The idea was to place myself in the presence of only those people who give off the warm, friendly vibrations which soothe the coating on my nerves. Life never was long enough to provide time for enemies.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
Trump, in the crinkling of an eye, senses better than anyone the insecurity of people, that nobody knows whether anything is good or bad until they are told, and he is quite willing to tell them immediately.
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
The only people I don’t answer are bill collectors.
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
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.
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
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.
Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.
Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.
Don’t try to tell Namath’s people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don’t even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
As far as getting publicity whenever he wants it, Trump is the white Al Sharpton.
I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
