Stolen ... but inspired

• Thou shalt not steal if there is a direct victim.
• Thou shalt not worship pop idols or follow lost prophets.
• Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Johnny Hartman, Desmond Decker, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or Syd Barret in vain.
• Thou shalt not read NME.
• Thou shalt not stop liking a band just because they’ve become popular.
• Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.
• Thou shalt not judge a book by its cover.
• Thou shalt not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover.
• Thou shalt not buy Coca-Cola products.
• Thou shalt not buy Nestle products.
• Thou shalt not go into the woods with your boyfriend’s best friend, take drugs and cheat on him.
• Thou shalt not fall in love so easily.
• Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls’ pants. Use it to get into their heads.
• Thou shalt not watch Hollyoaks.
• Thou shalt not attend an open mic and leave
  

The Sex Pistols ... just a band.
The Clash ... just a band.
Crass ... just a band.
Minor Threat ... just a band.
The Cure ... just a band.
The Smiths ... just a band.
Nirvana… Just a band.
The Pixies ... just a band.
Oasis ... just a band.
Radiohead ... just a band.
Bloc Party ... just a band.
The Arctic Monkeys ... just a band.
The Next Big Thing ... JUST A BAND.

• Thou shalt give equal worth to tragedies that occur in non-English speaking countries as to those that occur in English speaking countries.
• Thou shalt remember that guns, bitches and bling were never part of the four elements and never will be.
• Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music,
• thou shalt not make repetitive generic music,
• thou shalt not make repetitive generic music,
• thou shalt not make repetitive generic music.
• Thou shalt not pimp my ride.
• Thou shalt not scream if you wanna go faster.
• Thou shalt not move to the sound of the wickedness.
• Thou shalt not make some noise for Detroit.
• When I say “Hey” thou shalt not say “Ho”.
• When I say “Hip” thou shalt not say “Hop”.
• When I say, he say, she say, we say, make some noise … kill me.
• Thou shalt not quote me happy.
• Thou shalt not shake it like a Polaroid picture.
• Thou shalt not wish your girlfriend was a freak like me.
• Thou shalt spell the word “Pheonix” P-H-E-O-N-I-X not P-H-O-E-N-I-X, regardless of what the Oxford English Dictionary tells you.
• Thou shalt not express your shock at the fact that Sharon got off with Bradley at the club last night by saying “Is it”.
• Thou shalt think for yourselves.
• And thou shalt always… thou shalt always..to thine own self be true.

John Dunlop

Adriana Trigiani

"...I've made it my business to observe fathers and daughters. And I've seen some incredible, beautiful things. Like the little girl who's not very cute - her teeth are funny, and her hair doesn't grow right, and she's got on thick glasses - but her father holds her hand and walks with her like she's a tiny angel that no one can touch. He gives her the best gift a woman can get in this world: protection. And the little girl learns to trust the man in her life. And all the things that the world expects from women - to be beautiful, to soothe the troubled spirit, heal the sick, care for the dying, send the greeting card, bake the cake - all of those things become the way we pay the father back for protecting us..."

Adriana Trigiani

Adriana Trigiani

"...I've made it my business to observe fathers and daughters. And I've seen some incredible, beautiful things. Like the little girl who's not very cute - her teeth are funny, and her hair doesn't grow right, and she's got on thick glasses - but her father holds her hand and walks with her like she's a tiny angel that no one can touch. He gives her the best gift a woman can get in this world: protection. And the little girl learns to trust the man in her life. And all the things that the world expects from women - to be beautiful, to soothe the troubled spirit, heal the sick, care for the dying, send the greeting card, bake the cake - allof those things become the way we pay the father back for protecting us..."

Adriana Trigiani

Janet Evanovich

"Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth."

Janet Evanovich

Thomas Jefferson

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."

Thomas Jefferson

George Bernard Shaw

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

George Bernard Shaw

Jeanette Winterson

"I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had."

Jeanette Winterson

Jodi Picoult

"In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future."

Jodi Picoult

Emily Giffin

"Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all."

Emily Giffin

Sherman Alexie

"He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day.
Choice: that was the thing."

Sherman Alexie