Quotes About Conning

#1. I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

Tony Blair

#2. Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.

Merle Shain

#3. Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.

John Scalzi

#4. He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life, and though he was a con-man, he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and to get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him. He

Jack Kerouac

#5. It is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.

Tom Wolfe

#6. Conning the conmen is one of life's most satisfying pleasures.

Ryan Holiday

#7. There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Sigourney Weaver

#8. The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

James Wolcott

#9. 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

#10. Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.

Christian Bale

#11. Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'

Imogen Heap

#12. Just dismissing them gave me a kind of power over them. That was the whole method of the con, even when I was conning myself. These

Andrew Klavan

#13. I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.

Bruce Rauner

#14. Stated simply, an Excel spreadsheet, or more likely a proliferation of these spreadsheets, is ill-suited for the longer-term data management and analysis required by Six Sigma teams.

Thomas Pyzdek

#15. The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything.
(attrib: E. Tancarville)

Dan Garfat-Pratt

#16. There does come a point when you have to acknowledge you're no longer postponing something and you really have made a choice.

Susan Sontag

#17. I love painting and have a need to do it.

Emma Watson

#18. God sees within me the ability to be the one He's perfectly designed to raise up this strong little person.

Lysa TerKeurst

#19. It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.

Henry David Thoreau