Famous quotes containing the words brian, wheeler and/or biography:
“You want to get Capone? Here’s how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. It’s the Chicago way and that’s how you get Capone.”
—David Mamet, U.S. screenwriter, and Brian DePalma. Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery)
“It ain’t often that a man’s reputashun outlasts his munny.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)
“A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.”
—Richard Holmes (b. 1945)