Frank Costello Quotes

#1. So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime.

Robert Lacey

#2. if the sublimest Truths of faith are still, for us, wrapped in impenetrable obscurity, the reason for this is because we have up to the present dissolved the connection between God, nature, and man.

Karl Von Eckartshausen

#3. Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

Frank Costello

#4. Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing; and little children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville- great Casey has struck out.

Ernest Lawrence

#5. The only one that can do what I do is me. Lot of people had to die for me to be me. You wanna be me?

Frank Costello

#6. Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

Elvis Costello

#7. Goooodmorning, my little jumping bean.
I got your salsa right here, bimbo, she said.

Rachel Caine

#8. The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?

Ilona Andrews

#9. You can learn a lot, watching things eat.

Frank Costello

#10. There's no justice in this world.

Frank Costello

#11. If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

Lenny Wilkens

#12. When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?

Frank Costello

#13. A lot of people had to die for me to be me.

Frank Costello

#14. No one gives it to you. You have to take it.

Frank Costello

#15. Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.

Frank Costello

#16. I am part animal and part God.

Dennis Prager

#17. Bismillah." Then he picked up his fork. "That's it?" Hollis wondered. "That's it. We are a terse people. Terse, and also hungry.

John Green

#18. Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

Frank Costello

#19. We're all gonna die, let's act accordingly.

Frank Costello

#20. In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

George Eliot