Top 43 Unofficial Quotes
#1. I did a lot of smoker fights and fought pretty much every week since Pat wouldn't let me fight until he was sure I was ready. I was also boxing and so I had 30 unofficial fights or more of those.
Robbie Lawler
#2. And then there's The Enforcers - but they cost a lot and don't take well to supervision. It is rumored that, under their uniforms, they wear T-shirts bearing the unofficial Enforcer coat of arms: a fist holding a nightstick, emblazoned with the words SUE ME.
Neal Stephenson
#4. I'm the official unofficial reporter.
I.B. Nosey
#5. The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#6. In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.
Tariq Ali
#7. I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#8. I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth.
Oprah Winfrey
#9. Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
Philip K. Dick
#10. Win likewise lifted his visor, gaze steady in return. 'My unofficial duties are another story. Real unofficial. I'd have a record that would make your father's look like docking violations if I ever got caught.
Marcha A. Fox
#11. So I resolved to remain alive in an unofficial capacity, which of course annoys them all immensely.
Terry Pratchett
#12. A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.
Amanda Hearst
#13. Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.
Harvey Milk
#14. A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media's depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don't have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.
Erica Sehyun Song
#15. I hadn't been at school since the day before my mother died and as long as I stayed away her death seemed unofficial somehow. But once I went back it would be a public fact. Worse: the thought of returning to any kind of normal routine seemed disloyal, wrong.
Donna Tartt
#17. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides.- Unofficial UN Motto
Robert Asprin
#18. The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of funding.
Max Brooks
#19. Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens.
Shereen El Feki
#20. America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.
Matt Taibbi
#21. A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
Rand Paul
#22. From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.
Allen West
#23. Ana was the original sad girl. She held the unofficial title long before her death. We all became sad girls after that. At her funeral, everyone wore black because it was customary and because it was the color that best defined Ana.
Lang Leav
#24. I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#25. I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously ... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.
Rima Fakih
#27. What I know is unofficial, what [the inspector] knows is official. I have the right to private judgment, but he has none.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#28. They had become unofficial mentors to the two aspiring teenage journalists,
John Feinstein
#29. Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.
John M. McHugh
#30. Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
Mark Twain
#31. I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?
Mian Muhammad Mansha
#32. Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly the most terrifying was the one that followed the famous Greene murders.
S. S. Van Dine
#33. There are 22 million people who have, some point in time, played hooky from work or school, so it's already an unofficial holiday,
Ozzie Smith
#34. When Lafayette met him in 1775, the first volume of Raynal's 1770 History of the Two Indies had already been banned, which is to say it was a popular success, the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books being the unofficial bestseller list of the day.
Sarah Vowell
#35. True, the curlers from Larga were supposed to be playing with a forty-five pound stone. The stone they has weighed an unofficial three hundred pounds, give or take; the Largans decided to train in the most difficult conditions in order to achieve maximal effectiveness.
Vladimir Lorchenkov
#36. On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia.
William Kunstler
#37. Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.
Tony Abbott
#38. I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
Larry Wall
#39. Didn't your mother tell you boys tease the girls they like?"
"That only applies to children."
"All men are babies."
"Point taken."
Chloe and Stella- The Unofficial Zack Warren Fan Club
J.C. Isabella
#40. Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend.
Herbert
#41. The name Bei Dao was actually given to me with the help of friends. When we were publishing our unofficial magazine, Today, we wanted to avoid being harassed by the police so we were trying to think of names that we could use. It was done very casually.
Bei Dao
#42. Greetings, cybernuts! This is I.B. Nosey, your official unofficial reporter!
I.B. Nosey
#43. In the 1960s the planning department of the London County Council, whose unofficial motto was Finishing What the Luftwaffe Started, decided that what London really needed was a series of orbital motorways driven through its heart.
Ben Aaronovitch
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