#robber

I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them? It's no big deal, but then I've been doing it since I got out of diapers. ↗

— Minda Webber

#frankenstein #ghouls #grave-robbers #monsters #vampires

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#be careful #because #box #brown #browns

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

— Calvin Coolidge

#absolutely #collecting #legalized #more #necessary

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates. ↗

— James Spader

#cops #grow #grow up #i #kid

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#stealing #theft #shakespeare

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved. ↗

— George Washington

#bad #kind #lost #only #passes

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#anything #bank #bank robbery #class #class distinctions

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#grave #i #known #robber #state

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#earth #emblem #give #greed #millions

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

— Ronald Reagan

#armed #deadly #frightening #hit #inflation