Quotes About Bootleggers

#1. Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.

Pete Hamill

#2. Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

Robert E. Howard

#3. Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

M.I.A.

#4. Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.

Peter Hook

#6. Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.

Tony Hillerman

#7. If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

Neil Gershenfeld

#8. The real world is simply too terrible to admit.
it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die.
Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe.
immortal in some ways

Ernest Becker

#9. Joy of Backpacking,

Elizabeth Wenk

#10. A hotel is serious business.

Haruki Murakami

#11. Friday's turmoil in global markets looks set to continue to exert a dominant force on the foreign exchange markets. The usual trend when U.S. stocks fall is that the U.S. dollar suffers.

Craig Ferguson

#12. There are people who haven't faced the reality of what has gone on in Iraq. They still think that the old central state is going to be put back together again. It's not going to happen in Kurdistan. It's not going to happen in the south. It's not going to happen in Baghdad.

Peter W. Galbraith

#13. For a few years, I went down a path where I forgot to be in the moment and enjoy the moment.

Liam Hemsworth

#14. I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#15. The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.

David Mamet

#16. You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.

Anne Lamott