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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
You can never prepare yourself enough to see your mug shot and DUI. -- Tracey Gold
I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face. -- Chris Kattan
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. -- T. S. Eliot
Poetry is a mug's game. -- T. S. Eliot
People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online. -- Jane Krakowski
I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself. -- George Bernard Shaw
Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there. -- Markus Zusak
This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it? -- Spencer Tracy
We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile. -- Paul Reiser
Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books. -- Bill Watterson
I have a mug that actually verifies that I'm the world's best dad. That's a mug. That's not me talking. You can't just buy those. -- Stephen Colbert
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible. -- A. Alfred Taubman
The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object. -- John Gates
On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't, he said: Do you mind if I mug you here? -- Paul Merton
I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows. -- Jim Butcher
On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'. -- Paul Merton
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It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup. -- Richard Gehman
I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me. -- Natalie Massenet
With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years. -- M. C. Gainey
I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny. -- Luke Bracey
I don't have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to drink out of. It's just a small china cup, and I get very upset if my husband moves it. -- Aminatta Forna
Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines, and his mug of thick hot chocolate, which every night he poured carefully into a thermos labeled COFFEE. -- Lauren Oliver
I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup to go. Or a mug to stay, or extra cream, or have nothing, and by opposing the endless choice, end one's heartache... -- Jasper Fforde
This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water. -- Russell Brand
I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude. -- Robert Polidori
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination. -- Guy Davenport
I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote, marijuana, morphine and cocaine. I never know sadness, but only a madness that burns at the heart and the brain. I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman, angelic, demonic, divine. Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon that brims with ambrosial wine. -- Jack Parsons
I have a coffee mug that my dad gave me years ago that has the San Mateo police logo and my dad's name on it, so I brought it to set and used it in a scene. I mean, you don't see it, it's not prominently featured, but I just wanted that connectivity. -- Michael Trucco
There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost. -- F. Sionil Jose
What I really want is to sit next to someone on an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee from the same mug. I don't want some rusty '73 Ford Pinto with a factory-defective gas tank that causes it to explode when its rear-ended in the parking lot of the supermarket. So why do I keep looking for Pintos? -- Augusten Burroughs
I'm really conscious of the amount of food I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. For example, I have a really big sweet tooth. At the end of the night, if I'm craving ice cream, I might not have the bowl that I would have when I was a kid, but I'll put a couple of scoops in a coffee mug, and I'll eat it slowly, and I enjoy every moment of it. -- Summer Sanders
My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic. -- Bob Odenkirk
Animals look at people the way people look at people that might mug them. -- Dov Davidoff
I like my mug shot. I think I have a really great mug shot. It looks like a magazine shoot. -- Paris Hilton
Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts. -- Denis Healey
We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile -- Paul Reiser
You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick. -- Terry Pratchett
You should take more pride in your appearance,â? I tell him. â??You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that. -- Darren Shan
It's the nicest thing on earth if someone comes up to me and says, 'Every day I drink out of a mug you designed.' -- Jonathan Adler
Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink. -- Guy de Maupassant
There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby. -- Nick Hornby
I tried to mug a wealthy man, but was unsuccessful because I was out of coffee cups. I wish I was less poor and more pour. -- Jarod Kintz
Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug. -- James T. Farrell
Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley. -- Ben Hecht
What brings you onto my property?" Rhev said, cradling his mug with both hands trying to absorb its warmth. Got a problem" I can't fix your personality, sorry -- J.R. Ward
Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special. -- Oprah Winfrey
I drink coffee with a spoon, and I eat soup with a straw. The clang of metal on an empty mug wakes me up to the moment and reminds me to love. -- Jarod Kintz
It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity. -- Daniel Dennett
Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for. -- Terry Pratchett

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