Mario Puzo
- The Godfather
Paulie Gatto hated quickie jobs, especially when they involved violence. He liked to plan things ahead. And something like tonight, even though it was punk stuff, could turn into serious business if somebody made a mistake.
William Howland Kenney
- Chicago Jazz
As musicians appeared before the public as entertainers, they became role models for many younger musicians who either attended their performances or looked in through windows or doors from the streets or alleys. Chicago jazzmen symbolized a new, urban style in racial pride, just as cabarets, cafes, and buffet restaurants signaled that their customers were no longer shabby "Can Toters," trudging home from work with a bucket of beer.
Ivan Goncharov
- Oblomov
As he lay there he thought of his plans for improving his property. Swiftly he passed in review certain grave and fundamental schemes affecting his plough-land and its taxation; after which he elaborated a new and stricter course to be taken against laziness and vagrancy on the part of the peasantry, and then passed to sundry ideas for ordering his own life in the country.
