Muggers – Quotes

On coaching the 1970s

On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers. Fred Shero

I don’t want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef. Dylan Moran

On getting mugged: I

On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns. Dara O Briain

The more women walk

The more women walk around in sweat pants, the harder it is to tell who’s out jogging and who’s running away from a mugger. Dana Gould

I support the death

I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don’t think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year. Charles Schumer

I think, the left

I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough. The average murderer is sentenced to 17 1/2 years but serves six. The average rapist is sentenced to 10 years but serves about three and a half. The average mugger is sentenced to … Read more

Clary grinned. A picnic?

Clary grinned. A picnic? It’s a little late for Central Park, don’t you think? It’s full of – He waved a hand. Faeries. I know. I was going to say muggers, said Clary. Though I pity the mugger who goes after you. That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it, said Jace, … Read more

After absorbing the news

After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two … Read more

Making a programme that

Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they’re big enough to take it. But to say that there’s a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.
A. A. Gill

Inflation is as violent

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. Ronald Reagan