Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Page

The police have been arresting gang members left and right.

Winona LaDuke

Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel good about it. I chained myself to the gate of a phone book factory, a GTE factory in Los Angeles. They were using thousand-year-old trees to make phone books. I think that's a total waste of a tree.

Dick Thornburgh

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

Mark Roe

When deputies attempted to arrest Mr. Larson, he refused to exit his house, despite the fact that they had a valid warrant for his arrest.

Christopher Dunn

We are concerned that false police statements may have tainted hundreds of cases of people arrested at the two largest mass arrests during the convention.

Nick Swardson

When you live the life of a comedian, it's such a state of arrested development. I can't deal with anything very maturely. I'm still really bad at paying bills or doing anything that would be considered semi-adult. I'm really bad at it. It's weird I can create and run a TV show, but I can't pay my phone bill.

Saleh Saaf

Tommy is a moving object, so when we do find him we'll arrest him. We will also arrest those who try to get in the way of his arrest.

Hamid Karzai

We are glad and happy for what Pakistan is now doing on their territory to chase terrorists and to arrest them,

Anita Shreve

I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

Nancy Kress

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

Lynn Flewelling

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

Li Rongmei

We have to go through all the Customs procedures and paperwork so it is not easy to import one.

Agnes Repplier

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Kevin Kwan

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

Paul Light

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

Viktor Khristenko

Launching the Customs Union to the full will take at least two or three years.

Samuel Freeman Miller

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

David Liss

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

Susan Isaacs

Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it.

Frederic William Farrar

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

Jeff Greene

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

Narciso Rodriguez

Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

Lita Ford

We didn't play particularly well because Rhode Island got after us. They made things tough on us. Every single shot we made was tough.

Charles Sturt

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

Dave Barry

You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.

Dave Barry

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

David Quammen

Islands are where species go to die.

Darell Hammond

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Francois Arnaud

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

Dick Thornburgh

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

Pauline Marois

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.

John Bolton

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Darell Hammond

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Francois Arnaud

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

Dick Thornburgh

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Phil Ramon

We had some National Guardsmen here, but they were unarmed.

Jalal Talabani

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

Rastislav Spirko

We don't have any more time for some losses. We know where we are. We want to get to the national tournament and play here.

David Witt

We've got (firefighters) here from Florida, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, pretty much all over the United States.

Adrian Beltre

He can make the lineup on any team. Especially on our team. If he is able to come back and play with us in Puerto Rico, our team is going to be a lot better.

Gina Rodriguez

I'm not messing with skiing. You can't get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.

Gina Rodriguez

I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.

Paul Harvey

Now you know the rest of the story.

Scott Adkins

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

Andrew Klink

We are going to win the rest of our games.

Peter O'Toole

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Fred Jacobs

We need to take steps to restore credibility to the administration and accountability to the university, and we have to do it tangibly.

Ludwig von Mises

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

Eric Brown

We're not trying to say these things aren't available. We didn't want to restrict the player.

Tassos Papadopoulos

We are satisfied with the terms. The rest is procedural.

Lee Humphrey

We've got some time to rest up. I think we'll be fine.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Zubin Mehta

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Andrea Morgan

We don?t have that kind of state support.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Riley Wallace

We've got a lot of new systems going.

Islam Karimov

We have not made commitments to make our territory and airspace available,

Bob Scott

This is new territory for us. We're pretty excited.

Brian Eno

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

Jacques Derrida

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

Isabelle Eberhardt

For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life

Erin Hunter

Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

Felix Klein

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

Marshall McLuhan

The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

Pat Buchanan

Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Boy George

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

Tamara Tunie

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

Toby Jones

It's one of those jobs where you go, 'Oh no, I've got to play Alfred Hitchcock. I have to play him even though I know what this is going to involve.'

Liam Neeson

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

Nita Ambani

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

Sandrine Bonnaire

I'm not very eccentric. I wear more conservative clothes, though I do like mini-skirts.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

Chen Guangbiao

Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.