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"There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook."
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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there."
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"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
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"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
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"The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment."
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
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"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."
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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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"There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years."
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"The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone."
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"I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off."
Art


"I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance."
Building


"One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!"
Time


"There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook."
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"I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago."
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"It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect."
Tea


"Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice."
Banks


"The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago."
New year
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