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
The number 1 rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.
I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.
I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvellous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
There is no other reason for his fame.
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.
ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as of 12/20/86.
I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.
The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover
Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.