He always seemed to do the right thing, which is why this surprises everyone. If you were to make a model family, the way the son would do it, would be him he did everything so well, so by-the-book, never cheating, never against the rules. When we read the article, we asked, 'Is this really happening to Stan' There was just so much going for him, I don't see any reason he'd make a mistake like this.
Quotes about by-the-book (3 Quotes)
An enemy that's working in an amorphous network that doesn't have to worry about a bunch of regulations, chain of command, rule of law or anything else has got a huge advantage over a stultified, slow-moving, bureaucratic, by-the-book organization,
The Austrians are so by-the-book. They're almost like robots.