Get Away With It Quotes

#1. These men think they can beat a woman physically and emotionally and get away with it because they think the love we have for them is that strong.

Sonovia Alexander

#2. Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing.

Jonny Lee Miller

#3. I eat whatever I want. I can get away with it. There are some strict regiment eatings, but I don't follow them.

Tyler Posey

#4. I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

Adele

#5. Live every day like it's our last day on Earth together," she said, beginning their new motto as she jumped out the window.
"For forever if we can get away with it," Lucas finished, joyfully following her.

Josephine Angelini

#6. I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. If you want to wear a polka-dot shirt and some crazy pants, you can get away with it there.

Benjamin Booker

#8. But smuggling people is a referral business, and you don't get good references by robbing and killing your charges. You may get away with it once or twice, but then business dries up.

George Friedman

#9. Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.

Jennifer L. Holm

#10. Raise a glass, 'cause I'm not done saying it.
They all wanna get rough, get away with it.
Let 'em talk 'cause we're dancing in this world alone, world alone, we're all alone.

Lorde

#11. The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

Christopher Morley

#12. I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.

Larry Wall

#13. I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it ... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.

Robert Kirkman

#14. I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

Liz Phair

#15. It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

Jamaica Kincaid

#16. Nothing has topped the way men shake her hand and look her in the eye, what it's like to call a man chickenshit to his face and get away with it, to mean it, to feel free and dominant and in control of your life.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#17. Only mavericks live in accordance with their desires, and even they don't often get away with it. They are usually labeled as troublemakers and gotten rid of.

Sheri S. Tepper

#18. The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

Abbie Hoffman

#19. A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

Khaled Hosseini

#20. I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

Steven Seagal

#21. He hates me because he can.

Because he's been allowed to.

Because he's male, he's well off, he's privileged, and the world lets him get away with it.

Robin York

#22. Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government

J. P. Morgan

#23. When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

Ian Somerhalder

#24. If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.

Sharon Stone

#25. This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

Condoleezza Rice

#26. Maybe today you could have shot anybody and get away with it. So there's many times, I could have killed people. Legally, I could have killed many people, especially working undercover.

Joe Arpaio

#27. No more looking at a wall and pretending it's a mirror. No more shelving fiction in the non-fiction section. No more thinking I could get away with it.

David Levithan

#28. Those cocksure perfumers reside in abstraction town just next to virtual-ville which is located within counterfeit county in the state of reduction set inside their anything-goes-if-you-can-get-away-with-it world which exists as a mere speck in the nothing-matters-anyway universe.

A.S. Reisfield

#29. In a way, the more techniques you apply, the less important the ingredients are. It shouldn't be that way, but you can get away with it. But if you're highlighting this astounding artichoke, it's got to be an astounding artichoke.

Michael Pollan

#30. When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.

Walter Darby Bannard

#31. A man who respects his wife, does not sleep with other women. And a woman who respects herself does not allow her husband to get away with it

Courtney Giardina

#32. If you want to routinely break the law and get away with it, then a police officer would be a great career choice for you.

Steven Magee

#33. I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

Damien Hirst

#34. I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.

Chico Buarque

#35. You better explain before I start plotting your murder."

His eyes crinkled. "You'd never get away with it."

"At this point, I don't mind doing time.

Kristen Ashley

#36. Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.

Ed Viesturs

#37. How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do as we please. It doesn't require the breakdown of a social order. It takes a six-hour plane flight.

Aminatta Forna

#38. You don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

Jane Green

#39. Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

David Sedaris

#40. Maybe that means "letting them get away with it" -- but maybe it also means letting *you* get away *from* it.

Arthur Freeman

#41. He was planning to rape me -"
"Why would he ever -"
"Because he knew he'd get away with it.

Courtney Summers

#42. In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it ...

Auberon Waugh

#43. I could be rude [with the media]. I could pull some of the [Bill] Parcells stuff, but I couldn't get away with it. I wasn't Parcells. They make light of it, but they're not making light of it with me.

Tom Coughlin

#44. I've seen guys on the street who look the part of a rock star just as much as any rock star. If you feel it and you believe it, then you can get away with it. Rock on!

Scott Weiland

#45. Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.

Ed Koch

#46. I see the horrible way some stars deal with other people, and I don't know how they get away with it. Maybe it comes back to them in a different karma.

Emily Lloyd

#47. It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

Ben Stein

#48. If you want to kill someone and get away with it, become a cop.

Steven Magee

#49. I don't know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers. They spend all day thinking of the perfect plot on how to kill someone and get away with it.

Shannon L. Alder

#50. Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

Jack Gantos

#51. Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves.

John Waters

#52. E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

Tom Hanks

#53. You owe me now, mister. You can't expect to steal a woman's pastry and get away with it.

J. Kenner

#54. Part of the training of a Special Circumstances agent was learning a) that the rules were supposed to be broken sometimes, b) just how to go about breaking the rules, and c) how to get away with it, whether the rule-breaking had led to a successful outcome or not.

Iain M. Banks

#55. I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#56. [ ... ] You didn't think I'd let the backstabbing little hussy get away with it, did you? Not that I don't love Jenni, but she's the baby of the family, and she thinks she should get anything and everything she wants. Occasionally she has to be shown differently.

Linda Howard

#57. I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

Bruno Mars

#58. One of our very favorite shows of 2008 was our Slowtrain instore. We drove straight from San Francisco, pulled up to the back of the store, dragged our entire setup inside and played our new album, Rook, start-to-finish - and they let us get away with it.

Jonathan Meiburg

#59. I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.

Colin Firth

#60. Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.

Rick Perlstein

#61. She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

Michael Dorris

#62. How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?

Richard Siken

#63. Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

Pierce Brosnan

#64. There are quite a few things I've done that even I thought might have been one step too far. But if you are willing to make a fool of yourself and make people smile, as long as you do it with a sense of fun, you can get away with it.

Richard Branson

#65. Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

George Will

#66. There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that's the hardest part - convincing everybody you're a genius.

Fredric Brown

#67. Cheaters never prosper, unless they get away with it.

Daniel Tosh

#68. I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

Blythe Danner

#69. Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

Tom Robbins

#70. Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

Josh Lieb

#71. Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

Francoise Sagan

#72. I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous.

Rian Johnson

#73. I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.

Kelly Osbourne

#74. We can wear whatever we want and get away with it. Just be confident about being who you are and dressing for that person.

Tim Gunn

#75. I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

Tina Fey

#76. When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Charles Bukowski

#77. Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

Dizzy Gillespie

#78. We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.

Charles Evers

#79. Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

Margaret Thatcher

#80. It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

Mo Ibrahim

#81. Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

Sufjan Stevens

#82. white-collar crime costs the communities in which it occurs more money than common crimes, but because white-collar criminals steal with a pencil they get away with it, while the eighteen-year-old kid who steals with a gun goes to prison for a long time.

Joseph Hilldorfer

#83. There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

Donald Rumsfeld

#84. It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.

Jack Kingston

#85. I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

Robert Webb

#86. CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.

Jay Leno

#87. What's always right?" "Kindness," Pitt answered with certainty. "Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.

Anne Perry

#88. The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Abbie Hoffman

#89. You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

Dean Koontz

#90. The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

W. H. Auden

#91. I'm trying to think how I impressed my wife. We had an on-stage kiss, and I really went for it. Because I liked her. Usually you can get away with it being just technical, but it was a problem when I ended up kissing my wife on the set. I'd say I stopped acting and kissed her on set.

David Walton

#92. I was rather a goody-goody as a child ... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.

Alan Hollinghurst

#93. Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Louise Brooks

#94. A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.

Henry Mintzberg

#95. For me to make a living acting silly for as long as I can get away with it, I think the most viable way to make that happen is to evolve into more traditional comedy. I've really been putting in the work.

Steve-O

#96. The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'

Mark Bradford

#97. One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

Margaret Mead

#98. This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

Paul Castellano

#99. I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

Andrew Eldritch

#100. I think the reason why more rapists go into the military is the same reason why predators go into the Catholic Church. It's a place they know they can get away with it.

Bill Maher