Quotes About Mugged

I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about being mugged. It's not a very joyful place.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

These CEOs are scary. I walk past a gang banger; I don't even flinch. But I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Cutting through the projects, you might lose what you have on you that day, but I ain't never been mugged of my future. No thug ever said, "Give me your 401K. I want your college fund, your IRA. I want it all."

A conservative is a Democrat who's been mugged. I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip isn't it?

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket?

Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley They spat in the eye of beauty and bludgeoned their wait through the notions of aesthetics and aerodynamics. Vogon cruisers did not so much travel through space as defile it and toss it aside.

Minutes past midnight the group left Pardis to be mugged by the wind, which came at them down the street like a gang of thieves.

Darling, my friend has just been mugged and she needs better coffee than this. Was it made from ancient beans? Do us all a favor and make a fresh pot.

A turtle was mugged by a gang of snails. The police came to take a report, but he couldn't help them. "It all happened so fast," he said.

I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

We were mugged by some senior citizens on the way from the chopper to the main gate, but no great harm done; they were using vintage revolvers.

Living one's life with unguarded vulnerability is one of the keys to happiness. It's also one of the keys to getting mugged.

A conservative is a libertarian who has been mugged.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I had to go to the hospital. Every time you went out, you got robbed. It was horrible. You can't imagine.

One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.

There's this sloth in the jungle walking from one tree to another, and it's mugged by a gang of snails, and when the police ask the sloth if it could identify any of its attackers, it says, 'I don't know; it all happened so quickly...

when sleep mugged him.

During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.

The female put her hands on her hips. "Just my luck. I get mugged by Emily Post." "Emily who?" He narrowed his eyes. "And I did not mug you." "Then why do you have all my shit." As she drew out the enunciation on that last word, something unfamiliar woke up in the back of his brain.

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.