Mafia Fiction Quotes

#1. When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction.

Don Pendleton

#2. It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. When you have planted
the rose of Love into your heart
your life has not been in vain.

Omar Khayyam

#4. I felt a little bad about killing the man, but what choice did I have?" ... Louie Morelli, "The Prince of Mafia Princes.

Patricia Bellomo

#5. This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

Tenzin Palmo

#6. How many'd we do? is the question frequently asked at the end of the shift, when the cooks collapse onto flour sacks and milk crates and piles of dirty linen, smoking their cigarettes, drinking their shift cocktails,

Anthony Bourdain

#7. It seemed poison had been poured into wonder's own decanter.

R. Scott Bakker

#8. Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.

Angelika Rust

#9. I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.

Elizabeth Strout

#10. Ideology is a virus.

Neal Stephenson

#11. If you can look in your mother's eyes and she's proud of you, then you're a champion.

George Foreman

#12. When she looked longer at herself in her new dress, it was she but she living a different life, the life she would have lived if she had stayed in Prague.

Milan Kundera

#13. There was something wild beneath the surface that his suit couldn't hide. He had the cocky arrogance of a man who broke the rules with impunity. A man who feared nothing. A very, very dangerous man.

Sarah Castille

#14. Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Benjamin Disraeli

#15. I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be.

Ty Burrell