Safecrackers Quotes & Sayings

We always look behind, through, and beyond ourselves, never within. — Vert

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads. — Stanley Elkin

We have an active program. We have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power. We have an advanced missiles program. — Ayub Khan

Sometimes there's no cure for the crazy." Dale sighed, stroking my hair. "I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that's the cure. — Emme Rollins

We're living as if we were in mourning for a lost paradise, he thought. As if we longed for the car thieves and safecrackers of the old days, who doffed their caps and behaved like gentlemen when we came to take them in. But those days have irretrievably vanished, and it's questionable whether they were ever as idyllic as we remember them. — Henning Mankell

The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature. — Robert Genn

Sinister is the breath that fills our wings, for what are we? What are we beneath skin and feathers?" His question was not left without an answer; Magnus made good on it. "We are the children of incestuous and obscene demons. We are scavengers. We smell the scent of death carried forth by the winds. And once we are past our decade, our thirst for knowledge and survival dims; and we consider ourselves fortunate. For with age comes wisdom, and with age comes death. A murder of crows awaits us all. — Serban Valentin Constantin Enache

Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations. — Tad Williams

Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime! — Stephen Colbert

The lesson of an American life like my father's ... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112). — Saul Bellow