Heist Movie Quotes

#1. You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.

Adam McKay

#2. The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

Steven Soderbergh

#3. Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

Gore Vidal

#4. That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

Eva Ibbotson

#5. ...empires were formed by wars of conquest, but ruled by deception."
The Professor, Hope's great-uncle and the builder of the time-machine.

Eve Human

#6. Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

Pol Pot

#7. Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.

Ernest Bramah

#8. I come up with the ideas for my videos, and I write the lyrics and choreograph them, and I direct them and tell everyone what to do and how I want them to sing the parts and do the tongue pops and eye rolls and stuff like that.

Todrick Hall

#9. My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.'

Jon Lester

#10. The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor's throne.

Timothy Zahn

#11. The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

Jane Jacobs

#12. Common sense will only get you a common life.

Bryant McGill

#13. Lately, I am receiving numerous calls each night from telemarketers. They're calling with the frequent urgency of dumped boyfriends. At this point, I cannot help but wonder, is the entire telemarketing industry one big, jilted, clingy gay guy?

Augusten Burroughs