Unofficially Yours Best Quotes

#1. If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been told by COs unofficially or officially, is to pepper spray that individual to sedate them.

Cecily McMillan

#2. Sometimes, the most awesome and complicated thing you can do is just stick around

Kate Hattemer

#3. Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they're lying - it seems they never die at all.

Scott Lynch

#4. It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.

Philippe Aries

#5. The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

George Lois

#6. I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Lorraine Toussaint

#7. And unofficially?

Elizabeth Lowell

#8. If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not one to the thing but to your own estimate to it.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.

Edward Frenkel

#10. Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.

Thomas Ligotti

#11. On an individual basis, in most interactions, this thing we call power - authority - exists only as it is perceived.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. Rhymes more fresher than a virgin in a 'frigerator.

Lord Finesse

#13. Intuition can also mean an instant recognition of a truth, sensing that you are doing the right thing in making a choice or decision even if it is not the immediately obvious option or an experience of knowing the probable outcome just as it is beginning to unfold.

Sylvia Clare

#14. I had hoped I would have some definitive news to give you by now, but I've heard (unofficially) that they need/will take another 2 week extension to make their decision. I've also heard that the police are flooding the Gov's office with last minute calls/letters requesting that I be denied ...

Sundiata Acoli

#15. The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Voltaire

#16. Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

Emma Donoghue

#17. You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. I'm not a confrontational person in real life, so I really don't wanna get into arguments or fistfights with people I'm making fun of.

Andy Kindler

#19. It all jibed, and the books would close on Jasper as death by misadventure. Unofficially, Eve labeled it death by stupidity, but there wasn't a place on the sheet for that particular observation. - Lt. Eve Dallas on a drunk fall off the roof

J.D. Robb

#20. My wife and I have never been able to have kids of our own. Physically, it's impossible. The doctor checked. So we tend to unofficially adopt lots of twenty-somethings. I have a real soft spot in my heart for youth.

Doug Jones

#21. Don't get too close buddy ' I warn Sloth. Unofficially there's a code of conduct but animals are still animals. And animals can be assholes too.

Lauren Beukes