Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pam McCoy

We have not banned it (soda) because we have not seen any hard data. If people are calling this a public health crisis then we should require that only 18-year-olds can buy soda." ()

Eric Lewis

I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.

Nell Newman

Have you ever read the back of the Newman's Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination.

Eric Lindquist

She was banned from many libraries, ... in the back door.

R. Inge

Nothing in the materials collected suggest that there was anything on the banned list of substances.

Kent Willis

If this bill banned gay-straight alliances outright, it would be unconstitutional. But because it doesn't explicitly state that, it would be harder to make a constitutional case against.

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.

Chuck Palahniuk

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

James Tien

But our view was eventually banned from the report.

Douglas Gibson

She is a convicted criminal who stole thousands of rands of taxpayers' money to fund her own lavish lifestyle.

Bob Conlin

If a person is convicted of something while in state service, they do not automatically lose their benefits. There's no provision in state law for something like that.

Joseph Estrada

I have mixed feelings. I welcome this opportunity to present my side because I was denied that right in the impeachment trial when prosecutors walked out. I was convicted in the streets.

David Sims

One in every three people convicted for DWI in Los Alamos County is under 21 years of age.

Daniel Berrigan

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

Steven Chaykin

We think they are being inappropriately detained. Their presumption of innocence has been eviscerated. They are being punished for a crime they were not convicted of.

Felix Sabates

We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.

Elaine Makatura

We have no way of knowing if they were a convicted felon, or whether they were telling the truth if they said they weren't one.

S. Hughes

We know she doesn't want him convicted of this murder, ... She wants him out so they can have their life together.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Leslie Sloane

She's OK. She starts work in about two weeks.

Adam McKay

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

P. J. O'Rourke

The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

Tim Ritchey

We will know more after he starts galloping,

Jack Smith

We are going to take it to them. Zero-zero starts the game.

Mo Ibrahim

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

Milan Hejduk

We did not win a lot of games. But the tournament really starts with the quarter-finals.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.