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 auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.
Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.
Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.
Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.