#robb

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#activities #age #choice #church #dry

Love without trust? It's not love at all. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#j-d-robb #love #death

Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

#cops #exciting #first #first time #hunt

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#even #family #grudges #italy #killers

And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#half #honor #i #me #much

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. ↗

— George Combe

#brute #brute force #chooses #england #few

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#absolutely #collecting #legalized #more #necessary

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#argument #bank #been #cab #get

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence. ↗

— John White Geary

#daily #filled #mere #occurrence #plunder

I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?' ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#big #boy #chris #city #cops