Great Robbery Quotes

#1. Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.

Albert Parsons

#2. There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

Dean Koontz

#3. Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

Steve Carell

#4. Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.

Francisco Costa

#5. This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things ... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land.

Spotted Tail

#6. I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

Al Jourgensen

#7. Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#8. I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#9. Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet ...

Winifred Holtby

#10. It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

Alan Greenspan

#11. The day burned orange, like a photographic negative, and it would be a few days more before my eyes could adjust. It was like something out of science fiction.

Krystyna Chiger

#12. The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Tony Hillerman

#13. It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.

Marge Piercy

#14. There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Nelson Mandela

#15. You're going to the ball?"
"Aren't you? I was led to believe we had no choice in the matter."
Vol cracks a wry smile. "Ah. You've met Kira, then."
"If that self-congratulatory guinea pig in my doorway this morning was Kira, then yes. We're acquainted.

Nenia Campbell

#16. For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

Walter Isaacson

#17. I have this condition I call impromptu senility. I can't remember a damn thing when I don't want to.

Laurann Dohner

#18. It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#19. It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

John Frederick Boyes

#20. The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

Luke Evans