Stealing For A Good Reason Quotes

#1. We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter. (p. 22)

Rabih Alameddine

#2. What you call looking like an idiot are splashes of mediatic splendor that give shine to your personality and make you more human, more likable. If ethical and aesthetic principles no longer exist, looking like an idiot disappears as a consequence.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#3. You" - he pointed at me - "are the black pearl.

Jerry Spinelli

#4. I was on my out and they thought they were helping me; instead they turned motion and intellible speech into a currency with which personhood is earned.

Helen Oyeyemi

#5. To be angry at the gods is to scream at the stars. Even if they hear, they will not stop shining.

Andrea K. Host

#6. So are you and Marcus finally getting along?" he asked.
"She threatened to castrate me," Marcus said.
I nodded. "Sure did."
Will blinked and stiffened uncomfortably. "Oh."
"That's not nice, Ell," Kate scolded. "Boys need those.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#7. And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.

Peter Hook

#8. We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#9. As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

Gary Hamel

#10. Besides ... ' She smiled. 'I'm perfectly safe, remember? I've got you. I've always got you.'
'Please always stay mine,' he whispered.
'Always.

Thea Harrison

#11. A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Kenneth Adelman

#12. I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film this,' as opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.

Clive Owen