Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Singer

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

This shows that sexual assault does happen here.

While they were walking to the park, she noticed that the guys had kind of dropped back. One guy really dropped back and all of a sudden the other individual grabbed her and sexually assaulted her. The other one yells out something like 'stop assaulting her', she managed to make a threat and than they both ran off.

While the language of the e-mail is vile, the e-mail itself is perfectly consistent with the boys' unequivocal assertion that no sexual assault took place that evening.

Steve Buyer

The president's premeditated assault on the administration of justice must be interpreted as a threat to our system of government.

With the assault on labor right now, it was important for us to be out with all the unions.

We considered two charges, felony stalking and assault with a deadly weapon, and found there was insufficient evidence on both.

Ted White

When both men tried to run, the suspect fired one shot from this assault rifle. That single shot struck one victim in the side, went out of his side and struck the next victim in his upper leg.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

There is no question that Australia's most dramatic assault on the world market has been with its value wines. These are generally not from specific appellations but blends made by huge enterprises like Penfolds, Rosemount or Casella Estate - the group behind Yellow Tail.

Our first priority is officer safety. The core principle behind a force decision is to use it in instances where officers lives or the lives of people around the scene are in danger. Certainly assault with a vehicle constitutes deadly harm.

Glenn Hoddle

We now have to plan an assault on trying to win promotion. It's a big challenge but one I feel everyone here can achieve,

Bob Hawke

It is an assault upon the very core of what generations of our citizens have been proud to boast of, at home and abroad, as the essence of the Australian character -- the

Greg Smith

I see it as an assault on the entire liquor industry by neo-prohibitionists.

I think it would be highly unlikely that we would go through the resources of extraditing an individual from the United States for a summary conviction assault misdemeanor.

I think that might be a lot of people's reaction to hearing that a rolling pin could be an assault weapon.

Jackie Speier

It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.

Mark Warner

I will not tolerate any assault on the health, safety and welfare of Virginia's citizens or the environment, and I insist on compliance with environmental laws and regulations. This matter must be brought to a swift and responsible conclusion ... The bottom line is that you need to either fully comply with environmental laws and regulations or shut down.

Marsha Blackburn

You look at the violence that is there in entertainment, in video games, and don't just go say, 'We're going to do an assault weapons ban, and that's going to solve the problem,' because it is not going to get to the root of the problem.

The allegations were that he would use some sort of either nitrous oxide or gas and the victim was made so that she was unaware or unconscious and then he would sexually assault her while she was in the chair there.

Noam Chomsky

Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.

Jodi Kantor

Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.

Dennis Hastert

Today's ruling by a federal judge who sits in the 9th Circuit is yet another assault on American principles. The Founding Fathers believed that our Creator gave us certain inalienable rights,

Joe Lhota

There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon.

At this time, it?s private between me and the gentleman who assaulted me. We have an understanding,

At this time, it's private between me and the gentleman who assaulted me, ... We have an understanding.

An unknown male approached her from one of the stalls in the girls' bathroom, dragged her into the stall and sexually assaulted her.

Jack Straw

a disgusting assault on the very principle of European democracy.

Bill Thomas

Each and every one of those young men who were present at this party categorically deny that any assault of any description took place. The entire Duke lacrosse team looks forward to the results of the DNA test in order to clear their names.

The result is that many pregnant rape victims are essentially assaulted twice, first by the rapist and second by public officials.

Pregnant rape victims are essentially assaulted twice. First by the perpetrators who raped them, and then by officials who ignore them, insult them and deny them a legal abortion.

Programs aimed strictly at the poorest Americans are always and forever under assault from a Republican Party that still has not dared to cut spending on programs - like Medicare and crop insurance - that also benefit the rich.

At the bus stop at William Avenue and Main Street, the male approached the bus driver, and physically assaulted him, resulting in the driver's glasses being broken.

At this point, the reason for the assault remains under investigation. Our victim tells us he knew his assailant only as someone he had seen around the city.