Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boss Tweed

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Barbara Jordan

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Baruch Spinoza

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

Benjamin Disraeli

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Calvin Coolidge

The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is my duty to enforce such laws.To prevent smuggling, the Coast Card should be greatly strengthened, and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic... It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.

Alan Dershowitz

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

Brigham Young

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Bill James

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

Octavia E. Butler

If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

Anne Rice

You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.

Christine Feehan

If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.

Roger Ebert

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.

P. G. Wodehouse

She's a sort of human vampire-bat

Kristen Stewart

I want a cheeseburger so badly, but I have to be a vampire in a few weeks.

Paul Wesley

Some of my favorite moments from The Vampire Diaries were from season 3. I found the storyline between Stefan and Klaus to be extremely compelling. It was a friend/foe type friendship, rooted in depth that took us back to the 1920s.

Rachel Caine

Shane - "Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Because all bad little vampires see me in the end

Tim Healy

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims as they try to cope with the loss and impact of this natural disaster.

Natalie Cole

People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

Clayton Christensen

People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.

Ken Heebner

Open the hood of a hybrid car, and you'll see the copper wire in its electric motor.

Mark Fuhrman

Any street cop knows you will be sued or involved in some type of litigation throughout your career.

Billy Bragg

The thing about Strummer was he walked it like he talked it, ... He didn't cop out. He didn't show one face to the public and have a different face in himself.

E. B. White

Some pharmacies have not wanted to fax us a copy of the prescription. So we have to send the patient back to either the physician or the pharmacist. But a lot of people don't have cars.

Carolyn Messier

These are two major events and now you are trying to cope on your own.

Manny Montana

You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.