Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Gambon

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

He confined her to residences and hotels within Montgomery and Prince George's counties.

Greg Jackson

He just didn't do the things we wanted him to do within the confines of our system. When you don't play within the system, you're going to struggle.

HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.

Gyms deal in sweat. It's OK to be stinky. But in a confined space, like a spinning room, it can be unbearable. You do need to monitor yourself.

He's a crippled man. He has one leg. He's had his spleen removed. He's been confined to his house this entire time.

He should confine himself to subjects he knows something about.

Peter MacKay

From the cozy confines of 24 Sussex, the Prime Minister continues to dither on tax relief for Canadians,

Timothy Noah

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.

Hosni Mubarak

We live in a world in which all realize the suffering is not confined to one party and the flames of this conflict extend to all.

George Washington

(Liberty) is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme

(Main Street) is such a confined space. You're going to have conflicts when you have groups of people working that closely.

William Safire

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words.

Unlike most divorced parents, whose interactions are confined to the topic of the kids, people still sharing a house have to talk about clogged sinks and moth infestations.

Malcolm X

When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

Women in the EU are still not getting a fair deal, particularly in the workplace. One in three women is still confined to part-time work.

Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.

Issa Rae

People are tired of mainstream media's limited and confined portrayal of people of color.

Andrea M. Ghez

We have this interesting problem with black holes. What is a black hole? It is a region of space where you have mass that's confined to zero volume, which means that the density is infinitely large, which means we have no way of describing, really, what a black hole is!

Sue Kelly

Under the act, utilities were to be confined to a single region. Now you'll find there will be a lot of very large combinations of electric utilities covering all parts of the country. We're all about local control and local responsiveness, and we find that problematic.

We have a very difficult job as police officers. Day in and day out, we confront dangerous people. It's easy to Monday morning quarterback from the confines of your living room. It's quite a different situation when you're out here on the street having to deal with it.

You can confine him to a miserable existence until he dies.

Susan Taylor

When it comes to security, McDowell is at the top of the list of the worst places, just because the courthouse is so open and there are so many entrances, ... In other counties where there is no security, everyone is confined to a smaller space.

But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.

John Lewis

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

Bruce Lee

Truth cannot be structured or confined.

Therefore, the bilateral arrangement should be strictly confined to the bilateral category.

The Islamic Republic will not confine itself to limited volumes of enriched uranium.

Ricardo Semler

I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.

If we've just got a couple of wolves running without an established territory, they could be here one month and in northern Leelanau County the next. There's nothing to confine them, especially without more wolves.

How can you feel confined when you're in touch with the universe?

I know one lady who was a marathon runner and she's in her 50s and she's confined to a wheelchair and the excitement she gets out of e-mailing me and talking. I'll be thinking about her a lot.

Michel Foucault

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the ''outlaw,'' the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.