Top 27 Contraband Quotes
#1. Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#2. Art, after all, is - at its best - a lie that tells us the truth.
Nam Le
#3. Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
David Seabury
#4. Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true.
Richard G. Scott
#5. If you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!
Lilian Jackson Braun
#6. The weight of a compliment is dependent on how great the complimenter is on the complimented.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#8. Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.
Emily Dickinson
#9. I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.
Don DeLillo
#10. Sexually, I wanted him six days to Sunday. Sixty-nine days to Sunday, in fact, and I wasn't even a sixty-nine kind of girl. Confession: I was, of course I was. I'd just never acted like it in real life. But I'd do it with Charlie. In a heartbeat. And were there other numbers? I'd do those too.
Melanie Harlow
#11. Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
Barbara Kingsolver
#13. The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.
Mark Wahlberg
#14. I'd rather have weeks, days, hours with you happy and content than a lifetime filled with regret.
Faith Sullivan
#15. This world is full of dangerous beasts - but none quite as ugly and uncontrollable as a lawyer who has finally flipped off the tracks of Reason. He will run completely amok - like a Priest into sex, or a narc-squad cop who suddenly decides to start sampling his contraband. Yes
Hunter S. Thompson
#16. It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.
Glenn Frey
#17. He had to put down the sacks of sugar and coffee then. Because, though he could hold off a mob at the depot with no trouble, even he couldn't kiss a girl with his arms full of contraband.
Ann Rinaldi
#18. Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars.
Assata Shakur
#19. I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.
Demi Moore
#20. Ordering and taking delivery on the supplies and other things they needed took ingenuity and finesse, but both were Win's specialty. Contraband that would set off an alarm if ordered from unauthorized sources would simply be "misdelivered" to the SD where he would pick it up after-hours.
Marcha A. Fox
#21. Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.
Nicki Minaj
#22. Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
John Berger
#23. Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.
Bryant H. McGill
#24. Ari had discovered a contraband Barbie bangle in her weekend case and had gone on an hour's rant that contained words like 'body fascism' and 'third-wave feminism', then made Ellie write out fifty times, 'Barbie is a toxic plastic tool of a patriarchal culture.
Sarra Manning
#26. Don't just listen with your two ears only. Listen attentively. Listen with every fiber of your being!
Assegid Habtewold
#27. I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.
George Balanchine
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