QUOTATIONS by AUTHOR
Authors & Writing
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
-Jimmy Breslin , ""Times" (London)", May 9, 1990
Drinking
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
-Jimmy Breslin
Football
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
-Jimmy Breslin
Media
The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public.
-Jimmy Breslin
Politics
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
-Jimmy Breslin
Presidency
"The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit."
-Jimmy Breslin
Books by and about Jimmy Breslin
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