There's no thief like a bad movie.
I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.
One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and always try to pick your lock and steal your television. And the rest will be honest as long as the conditions are right - but if they are tempted enough, they'll be dishonest too. Locks won't protect you from the thieves, who can get in your house if they really want to. They will only protect you from the mostly honest people who might be tempted to try your door if it had no lock".
Guilt is the thief of life.
You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief. " You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.
Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will. . . return the benefit and reciprocate.
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?
For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.
Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.
I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
For most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.
Fate, I think, is a thief.
I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.
Your kisses are thieves which leave me wanting nothing.
The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.