Quotes About John Dillinger

#1. It hit the damn papers that I was being chased through the woods with dogs and choppers. I mean, who the hell are we after here, John Dillinger? For Chrissakes, I'm just a lowly guitar player.

Richard Betts

#2. All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: 'Just lie down on the floor and keep calm.

Robert Anton Wilson

#3. A jail is just like a nutshell with a worm in it, the worm will always get out.

John Dillinger

#4. Despite our best efforts to clean it of its peculiarities, sex will never be either simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be.

Alain De Botton

#5. I rob banks for a living. What do you do?

John Dillinger

#6. All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.

John Dillinger

#7. When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.

Michael Winterbottom

#8. I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such a bad guy at heart.

John Dillinger

#9. The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions ... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

Dalai Lama

#10. What you focus on expands.

T. Harv Eker

#11. The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

Julia Child

#12. Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. Lie down on the floor and keep calm.

Robert Shea

#14. I guess when I was a kid I wasn't the type of person playing a lot of pranks. I was the type of person upon whom pranks were pulled.

Scott Aukerman

#15. We're having too good a time today. We ain't thinking about tomorrow.

John Dillinger

#16. Difficulty is what wakes up the genius

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#17. Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say ... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

Mark Rylance

#18. Before you rob your first bank, knock off a couple of gas stations.

John Dillinger

#19. Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

Mark Twain

#20. If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.

Janet Burroway

#21. My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

John Dillinger

#22. I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

David Rabe

#23. Never trust a woman or
an automatic weapon.

John Dillinger

#24. I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!

Eric Thomas

#25. You can get more with a simple prayer and a Thompson sub-machinegun than you can with a simple prayer alone.

John Dillinger

#26. In Madrid, there's a big street in the centre called Callao. I remember being there with my mum and pointing to one of the big film posters and saying, 'I want to be up there.' That was my dream, and I got it.

Maria Valverde

#27. There's no way you ask Sean Penn a question and then, you're gonna be HUGE !

Louis C.K.