Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Otto Schily

Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.

Geoff Smith

He would have to get permission and we would be very reluctant to give it. It's very offensive to us that he chose to take on the arresting officer the way he did verbally. And then the fact there was alcohol, even in the smallest way, involved.

Bob Phillips

The abiding concern I have in the wake of all this is, how many other Clines are there out there who are pulling people over, arresting them for felony offenses and charging them with crimes they themselves have committed? ... It makes one wonder how much confidence the public can really have in their law enforcement officers.

Sean Jackson

Just imagine, ... UNH could stop arresting all of its students.

Peter Page

The police have been arresting gang members left and right.

Pat McCrory

Whether it's Charlotte, Raleigh or Winston-Salem or any other city represented, we're arresting the same people over and over and over again, and nothing is happening." ()

Chris Van Allsburg

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

Barbara Kruger

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

Al Capone

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

David Conley

There are a lot of gangs now in the county. You can tell them by their clothing, and by tattoos.

Tone Loc

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

Jane Goodall

The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

Charles Koppelman

We grew up watching gangster movies. We wanted to make a film that people would quote to each other like 'Diner' and 'Godfather,'

Ruben Studdard

I am a product of the public school system ... and I had a lot of friends involved in gang activity.

Greg Owen

If we're going to be involved in leadership work, we not only have to teach, we have to learn. And we need to work vigorously to remove the reasons that gangs exist.

Adrian Leppard

We hope to jog people's memories - did they see anything last week, and did the gang test their plan and the route they used in the weeks running up to the robbery?

Dennis Hopper

For most of my life I wasn't on the left.

Richard Seymour

When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

Jon Anderson

When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music,

Rod McKuen

I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.

Michael Slater

Let's just say that there was a settlement but, like many other creditors, I've been left out of pocket,

Logan Mankins

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

Jeremy Luke

In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

Janis Joplin

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Brian Molko

Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

George Henderson

I am very appreciative the members thought enough of me to make me their president.

Marty Brown

Frankly, I don't think they've worked members very much, and then all of the sudden we get an ultimatum. It just doesn't feel to me like there's been enough groundwork done.

Steve Hahn

There are no limos in the garage. Any money AARP makes will get plowed back into the services our members want.

Ben Shapiro

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.

William P. Leahy

Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have.

August Strindberg

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Dick Durbin

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

Dennis Kucinich

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

Wallace Anderson

When I left, policemen were in uniform. Policemen were patrolling the streets.

Augusten Burroughs

What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?

John M. Smith

There ain't going to be trouble today because they got police everywhere. It's going to be all right because no one wants to go to jail.

David DeFazio

She didn't want to make any statements (to police). Nothing was voluntary.

Mohammad Khan

Seven police were killed on the spot and two are missing,

Gareth Peirce

Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?