Best Informant Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“As a scholar of Iraqi origin, the West not only reduces me into a token or an informant to write about Iraq, but even more damaging than that, I have to write about Iraq on their terms, if I am to be acknowledged or given the ‘honor’ of getting a place in their ‘prestigious’ institutions and publications. I understood this game early in my intellectual life and chose to opt out (to delink) to save my mind and to preserve my value and self-respect. I did not see a point in reaching ‘prestigious’ institutions while losing self-respect, knowing that I am not really writing, thinking, and doing knowledge conscientiously on my own terms.”

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Author:Louis Yako

“Funny how some things work out. I mean, how many pairs of eyes do you look into in a lifetime – hundreds, maybe even thousands? Yet, only one pair of eyes means anything and everything. Who knows why?”

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Book:Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

Source: Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“Oslo probably owed them money. Sockeye Sammy’s shiner testified that it might not be a good idea to stiff his employer. But if I couldn’t pay up, I’d surely make myself scarce, too!”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“My life had turned into a Raymond Chandler detective story and there seemed to be nothing I could do to stop its precipitous slide.”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“To be truthful, Mike, we’d like to kill you. The vote went two-to-one.”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“I bent down and felt her neck for a pulse, as I’d seen the paramedics do with Philip.”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“From inside the cooler, Duke pounded on the door one, last time: “Let me outta here!”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“Just so we’re straight,” I said confidentially, staring into his lazy eyes, a stupid smile on his sophomoric, look-I-can-grow-a-mustache-now face. “I don’t like you.”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“Jolly Jay rested the Louisville Slugger on his shoulder, as if he were Thor or some other god-like warrior who had come down from the heavens to our Deus ex machina rescue.”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“As if some kind of demon were racking his brain, Curley Joe stood in front of the jukebox with a small, silver handgun still pointed at the hole its bullet had blown through the shattered Plexiglas.”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“Any weapons or drugs, Mr. Hepp?” she asked. “No. Of course not.” She continued to look inside the car at the back seat. “What’s in the briefcase?”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“Oh, we’ll see you again, Mike. Just not with the same, pretty face. I hear you’re an actor, too. Pity. Your days of wooing leading ladies are about to end.”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“I think the sun was just peeking over the horizon—dawn patrol, as the coca-nuts termed it—when I finally fell off to a troubled sleep.”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“So before we sent his ashes up to Iceland, Duke suggested that we have a little wake for Oslo at Ur-Place. Where else?”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“I know when someone’s trying to get me in bed, babe,” she huffed, crossing her arms under her breasts. “They were acting all giggly about it, trying to buy me shots at the bar to get me drunk.”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“She left the doorway, the brush idly in her hand—like a grenade, waiting to go off—and sat on the arm at the far end of the couch.”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“Sure, I’d thought about it—Go northeast, young man! To Cody. You know, to win her back. Like Dustin Hoffman chasing Katharine Ross in “The Graduate.” But what was the use in that?”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“Anything good in the briefcase?” he asked. I smiled back at him. “Everything’s good in the briefcase, Walter.”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“Six months out of college and I was already questioning my occupational direction. Screenwriter? Actor? Director? Movie and television producer? What the hell was I thinking?”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“The full moon affected people. Sometimes in aberrant ways. Mix in an abundance of alcohol, a sprinkle of blow, and voilà—trouble!”

Humorous Hollywood Los Angeles Drugs Actor Undercover Action Packed Screenwriter Informant Drug Lord

Book:Full Moon Saturday Night

Source: Full Moon Saturday Night

“Blunt turned to the man in question with a helpless grin, "You have always proven yourself a mystery to me, good fellow!" Falconer lifted one corner of his mouth, "Then I have succeeded, Blunt.”

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Book:The Isle of Arcrea

Source: The Isle of Arcrea

“It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.”

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Book:Blue Blood by Conlon, Edward (2004) Paperback

Source: Blue Blood by Conlon, Edward (2004) Paperback

“So Sammy "the Bull" Gravano had falsely reported that DiB (Robert DiBernardo) was being subversive in order to get John Gotti to kill him, all so Gravano could take over the lucrative construction racket.”

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Book:The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

Source: The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster