Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslinis a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author. He currently writes a column for the New York Daily News Sunday edition. He has written numerous novels, and columns of his have appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City. He served as a regular columnist for the Long Island, NY newspaper Newsday until his retirement on November 2, 2004, though he still publishes occasional pieces for the paper...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth17 October 1930
CountryUnited States of America
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvellous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
The number 1 rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
There is no other reason for his fame.
You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?
What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.
Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.
Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.