Talented Thief

Talent is only a starting point. - Irving Berlin

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. - Will Rogers

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. - J. R. Lowell

Having no talent is no longer enough. - Gore Vidal

In television blood is thicker than talent. - Gerald F Lieberman

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. - Aristotle

Persistence trumps talent and looks every time. - Aaron Brown

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. - John Wooden

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Jean Petit-Senn

Is it a bigger crime to rob a bank or to open one? - Ted Allan

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. - Albert Einstein

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. - Earl Warren

Stop crime at its source - support planned parenthood. - Robert Byrne

I think crime pays. The hours are good, and you travel a lot. - Woody Allen

Talent is no match for hard work, determination, and perseverance. - Unknown

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. - Oscar Wilde

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. - Henry W. Longfellow

The world's second-most crime is boredom; the first is being a bore. - Cecil Beaton

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. - Maya Angelou

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. - Louis Hector Berlioz

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. - Bill Bernbach

If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent? - George Carlin

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. - Ernest Hemingway

Let's commit the perfect crime. I'll steal your heart, and you steal mine. - Meryl Streep

I took a physical for some life insurance. All they would give me was fire and theft. - Milton Berle

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. - Imre Lakatos

Everyone has a talent. What's rare is to follow it to the dark places where it leads. - Erica Jong

Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be thankful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. - Harvey Mackay

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. - John Wooden

Women are like the police. They could have all the evidence in the world, but they still want the confession. - Chris Rock

Koala Triangle: a mysterious zone in the Southern Hemisphere where persons of talent disappear without trace. - Barry Humphries

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. - Steven Wright

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. - Edward de Bono

For all of the fights I have had in my life, both on and off the ice, I have only been in the back of a cop car once. - Tie Domi

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen King

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them; and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed. - Juliana Hatfield

When I was a kid, one cop could have taken care of the whole neighborhood. Now, one cop wouldn't be safe in the neighborhood. - Mike Royko

You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him. - Jerry Falwell