Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Stewart

Just like the Berlin Wall, the Wright Amendment will fall.

John Burris

I think in the future it will provide more precautions for people who are exercising their First Amendment rights and at the same time give police officers a clear directive as to how to handle those situations.

Sam Brownback

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

Jim Wilkinson

What you had was a lot of young volunteers who, frankly, objected to this election being decided behind closed doors, without the media having a full view and without our observers having a full view. We executed our First Amendment rights in a peaceful manner, with full decorum.

David Keene

Her Second Amendment positions would lose her the primary in North Carolina unless she modifies them.

Everett Dirksen

Here we are considering an amendment increasing an already huge appropriation by $1,000,000,000. It is like using a teaspoon in order to get a few taxes into the Treasury and at the same time at the back door using a scoop shovel to shovel them out.

Bob Barr

It concerns me greatly. It clearly raises serious concerns about First Amendment rights.

Mike McGavick

I though it appropriate ... that I drop by and let him know that it was my view that changing the Magnuson amendment was unacceptable in my state, and that view crossed all party lines.

Neil Gaiman

I think the First Amendment is probably the most important thing that you have in this country. And I'm always horrified at the cavalier way that you (Americans) treat it.

Kenneth Pollack

Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.

Su Chi

He knows that the constitution will not pass the Legislative Yuan.

George William Norris

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

Corrine Brown

Historically, amendments to the Constitution have been utilized as a tool to protect or defend the rights and liberties of American citizens.

Taku Yamasaki

Today, a major step was taken toward the revision of the constitution.

John Jay Hooker

It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.

Asa Hutchinson

I think we should stick to the Constitution,

Detlev Mehlis

I will continue to fulfill my responsibilities to safeguard the Constitution, Lebanese laws and the integrity of Lebanese territory.

Ahmed Chalabi

We look forward for cooperation with the U.N. in establishing and drafting a constitution,

Sean Collins

I had no idea there was any speculation whatsoever. None of the Wisconsin players complained afterward, so I didn't know what they were talking about. I had no idea it was off.

Scott Cohen

In Mobile, the trees look like it is in wintertime. None of them have leaves,

Charlie Strong

I'm real concerned. No one has stepped up. We have the guys. But none of them has taken the job.

Jomo Gbomo

The hostages were in the vicinity of this confrontation but none was injured.

Brenda Hampton

The first year of the show, none of the writers had children. I think we were writing it for our cats.

Julien Pain

We sent letters, we tried to phone them. And none of them ever replied to us.

Jose Guillen

It's pretty much none of my business. That's up to the people upstairs and Soriano.

Terry Pendleton

It just shows you none of us are promised tomorrow.

Adam Rayner

I've done shows that aired on American TV, but none of them proved to be successful, so yes, no one here knows who I am.

Seth Greenberg

We just have to find a way to make more plays, make more shots. We have to take it over the hump. Plain and simple.

Peter Ustinov

It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself

Ann Miller

He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.

Werner Heisenberg

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

Chinese Proverbs

If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain

Black Kettle

I have not come here with a little wolf bark, but have come to talk plain with you.

Mark Feuerstein

In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd.

John Danby

They just wanted it more than us, plain and simple.

Ken Wilber

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Dave Calloway

He does so many things, the big rebound, the right pass. He just does what it takes to win.

Amy Robach

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

Spike Jonze

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

Lykke Li

Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.

Josh Gad

If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'

Lazarus Sims

I just want to win. I don't really try to do too much. But when it comes down to time to win, then we're going to do what it takes to win.

Kevin Bacon

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again-I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Ben Johnson

I'm going to do whatever it takes to be a better ballplayer.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Greg Martin

It can be time consuming. It took off a lot of pressure.

Iain Dowie

He did brilliantly for us in the time he was here,

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.