Gangster Quotes

I swear to God . . .”“God doesn’t come to this part of the house, so swear to me.” -Liam C

~ J.j. Mcavoy

When you understand the mechanincs of stress and master the techniques to manipulate someone's fears and dreams, you will be powerful.

~ Gregory Hartley

Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.

~ Lorenzo Carcaterra

He had no tolerance for acts of betrayal or cruelty and lacked Angelo's taste for the minute details of a business deal. He was a man totally in the moment, who knew only to respond to the action with an action. He was a pure gangster.

~ Lorenzo Carcaterra

Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.

~ Carlos Salinas

She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He’s a religion for non-believers.

~ Carla H. Krueger

...even if all they did was look at each other, it rattled her entire being because there was no thought or person or barrier between them. Not a single one. They were both thoroughly absorbed in every moment they spent together. It was terrifying. Like being swept away by a powerful wind, where your body rendered all its control to another force that could ignite as well as destroy you.

~ Anam Iqbal

Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.

~ Steven Magee

She moved to get up, but the man held her down as her car exploded next. Bree lifted her head and looked back at the wall of fire behind them. “Well. We’re well and truly screwed now.

~ E. Jamie

A gangster must always be prepared to kill a friend. It is one of the many open secrets of the business, since it is the truest test of his ability to rule and command the respect of his crew. To eliminate a sworn enemy requires little more than opportunity, luck and the willingness to pull a trigger. But to end the life of someone once considered close, regardless of any previous betrayal, requires a determination that few men possess.

~ Lorenzo Carcaterra

Members of every major street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist group have been found in a number of military branches.

~ Carter F. Smith

I want her to engulf me in her blaze & scorch me until my darkness lies in ashes.

~ Dani René

For those of you that truly believe there's no such thing as the mafiya, I would be more than happy to sell you your own fast lane on the Belt Parkway, you know, so you can avoid the rush hour commute. The mafiya is real as a heart attack and, contrary to popular consensus, has been steadily growing in power since its inception in the 1920s. Italian organized crime just doesn't operate out in the open anymore, former mayor Rudy made sure of that.

~ Gary Gunz Govich

Another deputy threw down a clear plastic trash bag with my orange jumpsuit. I reached for the bag and was knocked down to the floor with an overhead right, another shove, and I was inside the 4X6 room. The heavy white door was already closing behind me. The walls here were made of hard white rubber. There was a small shower head towards the back of the tiny cell and a grated hole in the middle of the floor | I assumed that the hold would be my toilet. The cell reeked of anguish.

~ Gary Gunz Govich

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

~ Paul Walker

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

~ Ice-T

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

~ Robert Wyatt

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

~ Quincy Jones

My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.

~ Talulah Riley