Quotes About Rip Offs

#1. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.

Richard Dawkins

#2. I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.

John Lydon

#3. The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

Irvin D. Yalom

#4. Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.

Scott Berkun

#5. We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

Norman Mailer

#6. Some friends are gossips and some are sloppy drunks. If you like them well enough, you ignore this trait and continue to be their friend.

Jennifer Close

#7. There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Rita Mae Brown

#8. I won't give up my day job of design.

Kathy Ireland

#9. And what has consciousness come to anyway, so far, that is better than these light-filled bodies?

Mary Oliver

#10. keep me from ridin' trail. But you're acting

Zane Grey

#11. Wear a fabulous smile, great jewelry and know that you are totally and utterly in control.

Donatella Versace

#12. And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.

John Henry Newman

#13. Sounds of vernal showers
On the twinkling grass,
Rain awaken'd flowers,
All that ever was
Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#14. When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately, around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy North Sea, there was no lack of wildness...

John Muir

#15. When we invoke stillness within our consciousness, we have the power to recover the child we forgot that we once were.

Daniel St. Clair

#16. He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.

James Russell Lowell