Famous Quotes & Sayings

Parminder Nagra

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

Leon Jaworski

No one -- absolutely no one -- is above the law,

Leon Krier

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.

Leon Trotsky

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

Lea Thompson

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

Learned Hand

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

Learned Hand

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.

Learned Hand

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Learned Hand

Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

Learned Hand

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Learned Hand

The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and more important, part of the law; subtract these and very little content would be left.

Laurence Tribe

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

Laurence J. Peter

As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.

Leigh Hunt

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

Lauren Oliver

I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.

Lauren Oliver

That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.

Lauren Oliver

Love obeys no laws other than its own.

Larry the Cable Guy

I don't take myself too seriously. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy making people laugh.

Larry Wall

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

Larry Wall

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

Lajos Kossuth

Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.

L. Frank Baum

. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .

L. Neil Smith

There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

L. Neil Smith

America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.

L. Neil Smith

Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores. Liberalism Progressivism all forms of left wing collectivism , are equally alien to the Founders ' America and must be extirpated, root and branch, laughter and derision being the most effective weapons. Look at the way they have reduced Hillary Clinton to an insignificant greasy spot on the pages of history, turned Albert Gore into an object of merriment, and are accomplishing the same for Barry and Micky Obama.

Lilly Pulitzer

We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful life

P. J. O'Rourke

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can tell you. ... government practices deceptive advertising. And the merest glance at the federal budget is enough to convict the government of perjury, extortion, and fraud. ... in a nutshell: government should be against the law. Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

Paul Merton

It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.

Paul Merton

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

Paul Buchheit

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.

Paul Cellucci

I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.

Paul Cellucci

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

Paul Celan

I went with my very being toward language.