"Weâ€™re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We donâ€™t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more."

-- Scott Lynch

#Believe Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Bullshit Quotes

“No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch.”
“I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.”

Source : Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage
“We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country.”

Source : Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. May 17, 2006.
“After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'”
“People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.”
“[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.”

Source : Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”
“Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.”

Source : Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.60, A&C Black
“Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.”

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