A Quote by Padgett Powell

If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.

Padgett Powell

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Padgett Powell
American - Novelist
Born: April 25, 1952

A bank in Washington was robbed by two men in George W. Bush masks. Luckily, right afterwards two guys in President Obama masks came and bailed the bank out, so everything is fine.

Conan O'Brien

Everyone's related to someone who robbed a bank or did something.

Laura Schlessinger

Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.

Randy Newman

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

Phyllis Diller

Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!

William Blake

I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.

Kanye West

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

Matthew Henry

We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.

David Barton

My high school coach used to tell me there's no correct way to shoot, that the only correct way was to get the ball into the basket.

Kenny Smith

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

William Shakespeare

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

D. H. Lawrence

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

Benjamin Watson

If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.

Carmen Agra Deedy

It's the reaction I've gotten my whole life: that I learn something and try to tell people in conversation, but when I tell them, they are annoyed.

Adam Conover

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

Alice Cooper

And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It's the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it's destabilizing because everyone is selling.

James Chanos

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