Willie Sutton Quotes

#1. Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

Jimmy Breslin

#2. The former secretary of State is the nominee. She is also the Willie Sutton of classified data. And there is going to be a long-term effort of Republicans, whether it's Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz, to paint her into the corner.

Hugh Hewitt

#3. Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Brian Aldiss

#4. When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

J.A. Konrath

#5. I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

John Millington Synge

#6. Go where the money is ... and go there often.

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#7. I rob banks because that's where the money is.

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#8. Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

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#9. High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

Andy Hargreaves

#10. Are you trying to seduce me or trick me?

Kathy Bryson

#11. Do not serve time, let time serve you.

Willie Sutton

#12. When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Oscar Wilde

#13. (Why do you rob banks, Willie?) Because that's where the money is.

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#14. You can't rob a bank on charm and personality,

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#15. The I is always in the field of the Other.

Jacques Lacan

#16. The glint of devilment in his bright blue eyes, so blue that the FBI once described them in bulletins as azure. It's the rare bank robber who moves the FBI to such lyricism.

J.R. Moehringer

#17. Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.

Willie Sutton