Street Hooligans Quotes

#1. You are thirty minutes late."
"Yes."
"Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?"
"No."
"Why not, pray tell?"
"Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Charles Bukowski

#2. Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove
and the child draws another inscrutable house.

Elizabeth Bishop

#3. I'm going to photograph every single person to enter and leave this tattoo parlour."
Finbar rolled his eyes. "And they'll hate that, because people who get dragons drawn on their backs are normally so shy about other people noticing them.

Derek Landy

#4. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Harold Pinter

#5. Thievery is a time-honored profession, my girl. Not to be confused with these hooligans who mug people on the street, or bloodthirsty klutzes who burst into banks, guns blazing. We're discriminating. We're romantic." His voice rose in passion. "We're artists

Nora Roberts

#6. Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

#7. Online is ridiculous. Places like Ohio State bring people here together, and students teach each other.

Gordon Gee

#8. Trying to remember was like trying to catch the rain with her fingers.

George R R Martin

#9. I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

Thomas Keller

#10. Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn't allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won't allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected.

Elayne Boosler