Eliot Ness Quotes

#1. Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

Eliot Ness

#2. I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.

James Frey

#3. Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Epicurus

#4. Her words were as sharp as an eyeful of sand. She never raised her voice. It was the kind of voice that never needed to be raised. It cut words to a fine point and launched them decisively (page 88).

Monica Ali

#5. You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

Eliot Ness

#6. Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

Robert Stack

#7. I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

Gabriel Luna

#8. One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#9. Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

Jules Renard

#10. As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.

Kate Clinton

#11. Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.

Robert Gottlieb

#12. There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

Oliver Sacks

#13. Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

J Allard

#14. Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

Glenn Greenwald

#15. It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.

Markus Zusak

#16. The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues
it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.

Heidi W. Durrow

#17. Melbourne said I'll put it in my own words: the time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right - " "What

Harper Lee

#18. Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

Eliot Ness

#19. Never stop fighting till the fight is done.

Eliot Ness