#rook

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. ↗

— Ray Davies

#corruption #crooked #hearing #keep #know

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway. ↗

— Dom DeLuise

#broadway #brooks #forever #friends #heaven

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water. ↗

— John Dryden

#love #see #seems #sight #straight

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#assume #assumption #certainly #coat #crook

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks. ↗

— Robin Tunney

#brooks #cool #did #friends #i

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#grew #household #i #live #live music

I hear that Brooke Ashley is also pressing charges. I don't know how she can prove anything. How can they prove anything, whether it's true or not, that I'm the one that infected her? ↗

— Marc Wallice

#anything #ashley #brooke #charges #hear

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch. ↗

— Shawn Wayans

#brooks #came #carrying #doing #homage

And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#always #beating #brooklyn #come #fight

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#home #i #left #like #neighborhood