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Quotes About Official

I just got my work visa to shoot American Horror Story, and my official status is "alien with extraordinary abilities."
~ Lizzie Brochere
I was not, and am not, officially a producer of that film [I am love] but the work of what a producer does I learned at that stage and to a certain extent I've been a producer ever since.
~ Tilda Swinton
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.
~ Amy Waldman
I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.
~ Jaron Lanier
Hillary Clinton used a private email account to conduct official state business. Experts say that if this violates any federal rules, then she . . . will still be president.
~ Jimmy Fallon
was ruled on behalf of the king by a shire-reeve whose name became sheriff.
~ Peter Ackroyd
finally there is just one truth: the official version.
~ Unknown
irrational attitudes and discriminatory decisions, often made by governments or other official bodies acting out of ignorance or prejudice, have led to language policies which have had detrimental effects on children's education and even on societies as a whole.
~ Unknown
The truth was stranger than the official fiction.
~ Dean Koontz
ll y a deux histoires : l'histoire officielle, menteuse, puis l'histoire secrète, où sont les véritables causes des événements.
~ Honore de Balzac
In Pakistan, a perception has been officially cultivated that anyone who offers facts, statistics or opinions that do not coincide with the national narrative does so at the behest of Pakistan's many external enemies.
~ Husain Haqqani
The official cause of death was listed as heart failure, aggravated by acute alcoholism.
~ Unknown
He was a man, in short, who had arranged his own life to live comfortably, selfishly, and well on the personal side, so that he could give generously and impartially of his talents on the official side.
~ Cordwainer Smith
in 1939 the official colors of scarlet and gold were adopted as the Corps standard, resulting in the flag we have today.
~ Craig Johnson
The Internet is pushing us - in good ways and in bad - to realize that the official version of events shouldn't always be trusted or accepted without question.
~ Jenna Wortham
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
~ Bill Ayers
She whipped around and found Hud standing there staring at her. He was in ski patrol gear today, looking official. And officially hot.
~ Jill Shalvis
Why have we made a folk hero of a man who is the antithesis of all our official heroes, a haunted millionaire out of the West, trailing a legend of desperation and power and white sneakers? But then we have always done that. Our favorite people and our favorite stories become so not by any inherent virtue, but because they illustrate something deep in the grain, something unadmitted.
~ Joan Didion
But to a bureaucrat paper was never just paper. Paper was life!
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
~ Unknown
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
~ Al Smith
of the agreed facts: the official bedding; the young couple co-habiting at Ludlow; their youth and health; and the absence of any concern about the consummation of their marriage; convincingly indicates
~ Philippa Gregory
Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.
~ Irving Howe
So many stories were told about him: that he had held important positions—grand dignitary of the sultan, hydraulic engineer to the diwan, or others like that
~ Italo Calvino