Significant Items Stolen By Dortmunder
- The Balabomo Emerald (The Hot Rock)
- The Capitalists' & Immigrants' Trust Bank (Bank Shot)
- The Byzantine Fire (a ruby) (Why Me?)
- The Femur of St. Ferghana (Don't Ask)
- The bodies of two 70-years-dead Indians (Bad News)
- A gold chess set originally intended as a gift for Czar Nicholas II (What's So Funny?)
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Famous quotes containing the words significant, items and/or stolen:
“Is it impossible not to wonder why a movement which professes concern for the fate of all women has dealt so unkindly, contemptuously, so destructively, with so significant a portion of its sisterhood. Can it be that those who would reorder society perceive as the greater threat not the chauvinism of men or the pernicious attitudes of our culture, but rather the impulse to mother within women themselves?”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)
“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness—a color, a weight, a texture—that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)
“If some beggar steals a bridle
he’ll be hung by a man who’s stolen a horse.
There’s no surer justice in the world than that
which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.”
—Peire Cardenal (c. 1180–1272)