Famous Quotes & Sayings

Les Cauthen

People were scared. They have been hitting the town real hard. They have been here the last two weekends and last week arrested our bartender.

John Mott

I have arrested people I went to high school with, played sports with and have known for years, ... Sometimes people don't think I recognize them, but I do.

Richard White

You know, it makes me sad, ... But I'm not going to get into it. I don't want to get arrested and get into trouble. I'm just trying to get into college.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The reinstatement is only a partial victory, we are now fighting to get our comrades who were arrested released from jail.

Alan Cole

There has been a fairly marked recovery in retail demand that has created a slightly greater lift in trade prices than we saw during the first quarter of last year. This means that, for the time being, at least the market has arrested the slide in residual values.

Bill Campbell

We are working to calm the tension. We think this is a conflict that began outside of school since it happened on a Monday. The two students who were arrested were found with brass knuckles in their backpacks, they weren't used, but that is a prohibited weapon.

Rand Paul

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

Lucille Baur

Now that we have Mr. Short in custody, we'll investigate to determine whether or not he is linked to any other recent criminal activity.

Stan Lowe

From our perspective, what I think is important is the prosecution team, in conjunction with specialists from the criminal justice branch, are reviewing the decision and the proceedings. After that review, they will determine what action, if any, should be taken.

Charles Kelly

If (a criminal suspect) makes a million in drug money and plows it into a legitimate business, you can trace the proceeds through there; and once illegal proceeds are commingled with legal proceeds, it contaminates everything.

Richard Holbrooke

one of the worst of the people in the region -- a racist, a separatist, a war criminal ...

Martin Tauber

I feel like a criminal now, but I am not a criminal.

Nelson Mandela

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Mike Williams

A patent suit will take second place to a criminal matter.

Bruce Springsteen

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Bill Ayer

The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive that it has been in the past. It also tells us that we are hitting the mark in delivering customer value.

Derrick Brooks

This was about helping the team and putting us in the position to keep a lot of our players here that we currently have and, at the same time, give us something to go get a player that we felt could help us win a Super Bowl. That's the way it's always been when I've done this, a two-way street.

Mary Wysong

I think I have a good pulse with what is currently going on in our schools.

Stanley Hauerwas

Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.

Lynn Hightower

Horses are part of our Western heritage that we love to celebrate. From that point of view it really is kind of a sad day. But it's also a day where the department needs to be accountable to taxpayers.

Ken Goldstein

Some of the department store sales don't make sense to me,

Menzies Campbell

Look at every department of state and I will show you bureaucracy and regulation, an ever-greater threat to enterprise, diversity and freedom.

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

Joaquin Phoenix

What the training did was teach me to trust my equipment and trust the other people that I'm working with, ... The firefighters will say, 'You should always be scared. If you're not scared then you should get out of the department because that's when you get hurt.' You have to have a level of fear and a level of respect for what it is you're doing, and if not, I think it breads a level of complacency, which is very dangerous.

Natalie Massenet

The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.

Judie Brown

The police department was handed this on a silver platter and did nothing. That's how I feel.

David Donnelly

We followed the letter of the law. We did what we were directed to do by the state Department of Pensions.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Robin McKinley

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?

Dorothy Allison

The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)

Doris Lessing

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

e. e. cummings

Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

Adam Sandler

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.

Roy Johnson

That's him. They took him to the jail today.

Brian Urlacher

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

Tom Waits

I did my time in the jail of your arms

Steven Biko

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

Tommy Chong

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

Patricia McConnell

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.

Idris Elba

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

Leonard Peltier

They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.

Judy Woodruff

The system was afraid of Vaclav Havel. And so they either harassed him for put him in jail.

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Benjamin Disraeli

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Jane Austen

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Janis Joplin

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Barry White

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Ben E. King

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Cameron Crowe

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Miley Cyrus

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

Miley Cyrus

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I think sometimes I forget that I'm 25, and I can have fun, and be flirty, and be confident, but still be completely in control. All of my new songs are empowering, but at the same time they're fun. I think that's important for women. You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

Jase Robertson

It's not about me. The power is in God, it's in the message and I now realize I need to be vocal about it... God uses flawed people to spread the message of His Son; if He can use me, He can use anybody. Whatever you do in life becomes the platform for your faith.

Janet Jackson

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

Adelaide Anne Procter

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.