Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Takano

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Brad Turner

They haven't changed defensively since 1991 when we went there and Coach Rush was the defensive coordinator,

Willie Nelson

What has changed is that nothing has changed. . . . That's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Bill Thomas

That is illegal, unconstitutional and reprehensible. It will be the subject of court action.

Mick Keelty

It's important that we give these people a fair opportunity to prepare their defense before the court rather than run their trial in the media.

Michael Greve

It's been the longest-sitting nine-member court in history. They've all played the same cards, and nothing is gained.

Arlen Specter

It naturally raises cynicism when you have so many 5-4 decisions from our Supreme Court and 4-3 decisions out of the Florida Supreme Court and that is not healthy, ... But our republic will survive.

Derrick Kirce

It's a matter of patience and sticking with the system. Not only Clark, but everybody on the court has to learn to stick with the system and listen to what I say. When they started to have success in the fourth quarter, they were starting to do what I told them to do. It's that simple.

Ruth Ginsburg

It's an extraordinary act, I think, to withdraw jurisdiction from this court in a pending case.

Orrin Hatch

It looked to me today that this court is going to be at least 5-4 and possibly 6-3,

Oscar Michelen

It takes 30 days for a new judge (to be appointed). Everything takes time in the legal system. We're going to write a letter together to let the court know we're ready for a new judge as soon as possible.

Zina Garrison

It's very pretty here. The stadium is very intimate and the court plays great. The hospitality is great and we are enjoying ourselves, everyone's been real nice.

Clint Eastwood

I can't do that to myself!

Susan B. Anthony

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

John Jay Hooker

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

Stuart Murray

We felt it was important that we introduced what will ultimately be part of our election platform. We know that we're a ways from an election, but we just think that Manitobans need to know that there's an alternative out there in terms of making our communities safer.

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?

Michael Jackson

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

Robert Greene

You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

Thomas Jefferson

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.

Thomas Jefferson

[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.

Thomas Jefferson

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Swami Vivekananda

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

Russ Feingold

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

Rick Baker

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Tom Hodgkinson

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Tom Verlaine

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

Scott Adkins

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will

Fannie Lou Hamer

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Travis Barker

I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.

Zoe Wanamaker

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

Zach Galifianakis

I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.