Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.
The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.
In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore the serpent on their headgear and the serpent was the symbol of the Magi of Ireland, the Naddreds, or Druids.
In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.
I long for the days of good honest crooks.
I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
I gazed into the mirror. . . There, staring at me, was the pallid, flabby-mouthed face of a crook
It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.
We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.
If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?
Crooks are early adopters.
To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person
I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.
Despite more than a year of spittle-flecked fury at Hillary Clinton for using a private email server, most [Donald] Trump voters probably don't even know what a private server is. Nor do they care. It was just a buzzword that somehow meant Hillary was a crook.
Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.
In Chicago, we love our crooks!
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
