Simpsons Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
2084
AUTHOR:
Herbert Emerson Wilson
QUOTATION:
In all my years on the prowl, I never got over the thrill of hearing the first boom and seeing what it did to a massive block of steel.
ATTRIBUTION:
On his first break-in of a Detroit department store, quoted by James Chiles Age-Old Battle to Keep Safes Safe from Creepers, Soup Men and Yeggs Smithsonian Jul 84