Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Waters

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is ""God is crying."" And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is ""Probably because of something you did.

Gertrude Stein

How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.

Nick Hornby

Have you got any soul?"" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?

John Mason Brown

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

Carrie Shelver

This case asks us: Who exactly is our democracy being forged for?

Luke Swarthout

This bill turns to students and families as the predominant source of revenue, rather than trying to identify inefficiencies in the loan programs. This bill asks students and parents to pay for tax cuts.

Matt Bartle

This petition asks Missourians to peg Missouri constitutional law to what some federal judge in San Francisco or New York says it is, ... I'm stunned that they would include such a wide-open and obvious flaw.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Alcee Hastings

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

Joe Sinsheimer

We shouldn't have to wait for state or federal indictments to get rid of Jim Black.

Brian McDonald

We think that federal law trumps what's in state law. You would not have to put this to a vote.

Geoffrey Canada

Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.

David Frum

Judges in the mould of Scalia and Thomas were the 'no new taxes' pledge of this presidency.

John Roberts

Judge Roberts, the legal automaton, as opposed to Judge Roberts, the man.

Jack Walker

I would much rather be me right now than a judge who said 61 percent of the voters were wrong again.

Boss Tweed

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

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.

Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Elihu Root

I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Claude Chabrol

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law

Claude Debussy

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Claude Debussy

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Claire McCaskill

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Tom Donohue

The comprehensive legal reforms enacted in 2004 truly have made Mississippi open for business.

Alyn McCauley

Obviously it was a set play and we didn't react to it well enough.

Ken Heebner

Obviously this is one with risk, but the potential is huge.

Steve Young

If it's going to be broken, and obviously it is at some point, let it be those two guys,

Jim Tracy

Most of us still obviously know tendencies of their guys.

Karl Benson

We obviously need the workers for a lot of jobs.

Sherdrick Bonner

San Jose was the only team willing to give him a shot.

Tom Araya

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

Frank Sinatra

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

Herb Caen

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Ellen Bass

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.