Jimmy Breslin Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
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The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
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Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.
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Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
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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.
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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.
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Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
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A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.
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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.
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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
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The financial people, who lead such dreary lives, believe what they read and see on television.
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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.
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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.
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The only people I don't answer are bill collectors.
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Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
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As far as getting publicity whenever he wants it, Trump is the white Al Sharpton.
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Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
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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.
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I'm the best person ever to have a column in this business. There's never been anybody in my league.
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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.