Famous Quotes & Sayings

Retailers who are unaware that the product has been banned for sale should remove it from store shelves, and parents should take them away from children.

Joanna Lumley

I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently in your head, you have learnt nothing.

Martha Stewart

I think I've banned couches from the set.

If it wasn't for R-CALF, folks, we would have been taking not just cattle but beef from a country that had BSE. We would have been taking food that every other modern consuming country had banned and we wouldn't even be labeling it.

If you are caught, you should be banned from the game. The policy needs to be strict. It?s unfortunate for guys like Bonds who tarnish the game.

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.

If the FDA approves this drug, it is certain that it will have to be banned within a short time after marketing begins because of the high probability of further occurrence of the serious injuries it has already been found to cause.

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

Virginia Postrel

The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which suggests that women were still wearing painted nails within the safety of their homes.

We will hold a hearing in Vienna once the Olympics are over. It doesn't matter what the IOC findings are, if we find they've done the wrong thing, they'll be banned officially.

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.

But our view was eventually banned from the report.

But once we banned chickens from the house, we chose wood.

Time is not infinite and the European Commission has banned further state aid.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.

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

Mustafa Akyol

For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be eradicated. For the ideological mentors of Breivik, a similar disturbance comes from the burqa, which is banned in France and Belgium, partly thanks to their efforts.

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.

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." ()

The use of banned substances in Italy is a crime.

Tom Izzo

There's got to be more punishment on the people directly involved. Maybe if coaches were not only punished but banned if they were found guilty of something. Maybe we need to self-police ourselves better -- I don't think there's many coaches turning each other in.

This machine is a joke. It sets us back a long way. We've done a lot to hinder the negative effects of alcohol. It's just not a smart thing and should be banned nationwide.

Divorces are happening behind closed doors and the woman is banned from having custody of her children. She is being sent back to her home country to live with her relatives.

Things would have turned out better if the Nazi Party had been decisively banned in the 1920s and did not have the chance to bring a racist and anti-Semitic ideology to power successfully.

The speech becomes ineffective if it's banned from taking place during the event. Hence, it takes away their free speech.

Sometimes I wonder if we're having a dramatic impact on the productivity of the American people, ... I've heard anecdotally that we've been banned in some workplaces.

Gwyneth Paltrow

It's sort of banned from our home, ... But when he's not around, we play it in the car.

A winning example would be in Florida, ... They banned netting, which has brought back the spanish mackerel. That also brought back king mackerels, because king mackerels feed on spanish mackerels.

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read

It's on the banned list -- no question he screwed up.

James Spithill

I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.