Forgery's Quotes

#1. A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

John Grant

#2. Petty theft, murder, forgery, arson, and the abduction of women were all capital offenses, so the death penalty for heresy was neither unusual nor extreme.50

Karen Armstrong

#3. Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.

Robert Lanza

#4. Everything that glitters more than gold is not gold.

Raheel Farooq

#5. The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.

Joseph McCabe

#6. The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.

Jim Rohn

#7. I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

Charles Bukowski

#8. One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.

Ramakrishna

#9. You admit, then, that your world is not real? That it is a forgery?" Zina hesitated. "It branched off at crucial points, due to our interference with the past. Call it magic if you want or call it technology;

Philip K. Dick

#10. What do you enjoy doing?"
Forgery? "Writing letters. Drawing." Picking locks? "Puzzles." Fighting? "Sewing.

Jodi Meadows

#11. The church claims that the document is a forgery.

Lawrence Wright

#12. Forgery, being the weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives. Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno, but if they don't get enough, forgery does. You want proof? Here it is: Once a faker's found out, he dies. Truly. It always happens.

Jonathan Gash

#13. Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

Noam Shpancer

#14. I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

Mae West

#15. Certainly it is not to invent explanations which dismiss the chief political and historical fact of the matter: that the forgery is being believed. This fact is more important than the (historically speaking, secondary) circumstance that it is forgery.

Hannah Arendt

#16. The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.

Dominic Smith

#17. To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

Deb Caletti

#18. I rejoice in the bounty of God, constantly manifesting as overflowing supply here and now.

Catherine Ponder

#19. The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

Ralph Hodgson

#20. You had no right." Oh, yes, he did. He suggested,
"Why don't you write that down. Put it in my handwriting. Perhaps I'll chance to read it, think I wrote it: Maybe then I'll believe you.

Judith Ivory

#21. Reyes Farrow. Because perfection is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

Darynda Jones

#22. Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.

Brett Hull

#23. Of course he had committed forgery;
of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.

Anthony Trollope

#24. Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#25. My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

Bruce Sterling

#26. A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.

Morris Bender

#27. By fate or forgery, our dances are entwined for eternity.

Natalia Marx

#28. Control yourself, she told herself forcibly. Become someone who can deal with this. She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.

Brandon Sanderson

#29. Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?"
Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#30. Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.

Phillip Adams

#31. Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

James Fenton

#32. I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I'm a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.

Shawna Lemay

#33. In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.

Alger Hiss