Robber Quotations

Le Petit is where I cut my teeth with some of my early roles. In 1982, I was in the chorus of 'Gypsy' and soon after I had my first lead as Jamie Lockhart in 'The Robber Bridegroom.'

Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

One of the cops came over and asked if we'd seen the guy and to get inside because they've got an armed bank robber across the street.

If it's a mugging, you might not want to give out the name of the victim in case the robber might seek them out to intimidate them from prosecuting.

ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs. It is related of Voltaire that one night he and some traveling companion lodged at a wayside inn. The surroundings were suggestive, and after supper they agreed to tell robber stories in turn. ""Once there was a Farmer-General of the Revenues."" Saying nothing more, he was encouraged to continue. ""That,"" he said, ""is the story.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

When a robbery victim does not defend himself, the robber succeeds 88 percent of the time, and the victim is injured 25 percent of the time. When a victim resists with a gun, the robbery success rate falls to 30 percent, and the victim injury rate falls to 17 percent. No other response to a robbery -- from drawing a knife to shouting for help to fleeing -- produces such low rates of victim injury and robbery success.

There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Even though we've taken a significant number of guns off the streets and made several arrests for armed robbery, when an armed robber shoots and kills a merchant we really don't have a lot of control of an incident like that.

The robber who spoke to us was very calm. I was surprised by the speed of the robbery.

Saddam Hussein can't dictate who the inspectors are. It's like the bank robber saying he gets to choose the police.

That's kind of like saying it's all right for a bank robber to rob a bank three times before the FBI's going to investigate the bank robbery,

There's a high rate of solvency if we have a clear photograph. It's harder to catch the robber if you have a poor quality picture.

A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his checking account.

It's not something we advocate people doing. This is a prolific and dangerous robber that we're very happy to have behind bars.

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.I failed history.

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to defend every idea, ... I am a robber of ideas, but for there to be ideas, you have to have discussion. If everyone takes my word for the truth, you can't do that.

The first robber of the year did not waste any time.

America was not made the industrial giant of the world by the robber barons alone, ... It was made the industrial giant of the world by competition, by encouraging new developments, by encouraging young entrepreneurs to break into the market. It's the best system I've seen so far.

The robber of your free will," writes Epictetus, "does not exist