Quotes tagged ‘Fraud’

(23 total)

“The bizarre crime has people amazed and amused.”

“Spodek told the judge that Delvey was woken up at 4 a.m. at Riker's and wasn't feeling well. He said there were logistical issues about how Delvey' clothing were handled.”

— Jacob Shamsian, thisisinsider.com

“Good evening. Today is Wednesday, September the 24th, and this is my last broadcast. Yesterday I announced on this program that I was going to commit public suicide, admittedly an act of madness. Well, I'll tell you what happened: I just ran out of bullshit. Am I still on the air? I really don't kno…”

— Paddy Chayefsky, Howard Beale, Peter Finch, imdb.com

“Olivia Jade has already felt the effects of this case, especially in regards to harassment and bullying online.”

— Allie Gemmill, teenvogue.com

“It’s not clear yet whether Wohl actually reported those fake threats to the Minneapolis police, or whether he just created the account to put the threats in the video later.”

— Will Sommer, thedailybeast.com

“Tell us about a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did your wealthy parents make that problem go away?”

— Ali Solomon, thebelladonnacomedy.com

“Considering how calculated Holmes has shown herself to be, it's not hard to imagine that she'd take this into account — we are talking about a woman who reportedly tracked down and stocked up on the exact Issey Miyake mock-turtlenecks favored by Jobs himself.”

— Rachel Krause, refinery29.com

“I’m a fraud, Max. I’m not the carefree dude that wins at everything he touches. You know how I win? I cheat. I cheat at everything.”

— Mark Perez, Brooks Davis, Kyle Chandler, imdb.com

“Donald Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and who serves no one but himself, and that is just one of the many reasons he will never be president of the United States, unfortunately just like Hillary Clinton.”

— Elizabeth Warren, en.wikipedia.org

“We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me ins't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and shortsighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually yo…”

— Adam McKay, Charles Randolph, Mark Baum, Steve Carell, imdb.com

“Mom, Dad, just so you don't hear any wild rumors, I'm being indicted for fraud in Australia.”

— Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright, imdb.com

“You unprincipled charlatan! You unconscionable fraud!”

— Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo, Christopher Lloyd, Niles Crane, David Hyde Pierce, imdb.com

“Why is she doing this? people asked, stealing glances at March. Some had a larger question: Who was Anna March?”

— Melissa Chadburn, Carolyn Kellogg, latimes.com

“Anything she wants to do she slides over to me. It's kind of bittersweet.”

— Neff Davis, papermag.com

“I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christia…”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com

“Grifter season comes irregularly, but it comes often in America, which is built around mythologies of profit and reinvention and spectacular ascent.”

— Jia Tolentino, newyorker.com

“His attorneys say their client is an immigrant who just wanted to live in the United States. They plan to appeal.”

— Justin George, vice.com

“Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.”

— John McCain, en.wikiquote.org

“War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.”

— John McCain, en.wikiquote.org

“The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.”

— Benjamin Harrison, amazon.com