Jimmy Breslin Quotes - Page 2

Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.

Journalism schools are good to get a job, but I don't know what else they are good for. I don't like the word "journalism" to begin with. It's news reporting, and that consists of using your two feet. The only lesson, then, that you could give people is how to climb stairs, because there are no stories on the first floor.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

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 other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

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.

I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.

I always react to news immediately. That's my business.

Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

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.

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

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.

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.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.