Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Van Allsburg

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

Barbara Kruger

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

Peter Page

The police have been arresting gang members left and right.

Anita Shreve

I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

Otto Schily

Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.

Pat McCrory

Whether it's Charlotte, Raleigh or Winston-Salem or any other city represented, we're arresting the same people over and over and over again, and nothing is happening." ()

Geoff Smith

He would have to get permission and we would be very reluctant to give it. It's very offensive to us that he chose to take on the arresting officer the way he did verbally. And then the fact there was alcohol, even in the smallest way, involved.

Bob Phillips

The abiding concern I have in the wake of all this is, how many other Clines are there out there who are pulling people over, arresting them for felony offenses and charging them with crimes they themselves have committed? ... It makes one wonder how much confidence the public can really have in their law enforcement officers.

Sean Jackson

Just imagine, ... UNH could stop arresting all of its students.

Roger Wicker

We were available, but FEMA chose to send them to San Antonio or Utah or other far destinations,

Talib Kweli

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.

Ted Cruz

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

Edward Brooke

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

Edward Brooke

I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.

Lori Wilde

To be honest, I chose romance because writing a book seemed so dauntingly long. I looked around for something short, discovered Harlequin romances, and decided to read a few to see if I could do it.

Jessie J

I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

M. Night Shyamalan

I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

C. S. Lewis

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

Brett Hall

We have no interest in helping him (Coleman) be a martyr. He has demonstrated a lack of understanding of the facts in the past and probably misunderstands what this administration has accomplished in hiring minorities and women in the state work force.

Mark Shapiro

We want him to throw quality strikes, not just hard strikes. He's going to be a contributor for us this year. Maybe not from day one, but at some point this season he'll be a factor for us.

John Laird

The fact that so many congressional seats are noncompetitive is not fair, but one state reforming the way it does redistricting is like unilateral disarmament,

Judy Woodruff

The fact that she's the first African-American woman to be named not only to be national security advisor, but to go on to be named secretary of state -- she's already made history from that standpoint. Second woman to be named secretary of state, first African-American woman to be named secretary of state.

Chris Mooney

The fact that she's a moderate makes it possible for them to slide over.

Mark Wiley

The fact that Seattle is so far away is a significant one,

Bill Cheney

The fact that prices have come down makes people feel better and they think the future looks better.

Mark Frost

The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.

Johnny Thomas

We have to find two offensive lineman to replace those guys. That's a priority.

Luke Babbitt

When your shots don't fall, you just have to go get offensive rebounds and keep working hard.

Benjamin Tucker

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

Clara Kassel

We've been able to run some offensive plays already.

Bryan McCabe

We know we've got the offensive here. The problem is our play defensively. We get away from it sometimes.

Edward Snowden

The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences.

Cameron Smith

Give big props to the offensive line. I know without them and the rest of the team, I couldn't do it. They spring me open. They're a big part of my success.

Jabari Levey

I feel like I could be a first day pick. This is going to be a big year for offensive linemen.

Mike McCurry

The president thinks it's time for an offensive in the war on drugs and not a time for surrender." ()

Katia Winter

I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.

Hector Tobar

You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand.

Lawrence Eagleburger

In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.

Mike Sheffield

Mr. Torres tried to kill Officer Brenda Bermudez.

Bill Dunn

She was D.O.A. when officers got to the scene.

Linwood Norman

But we are, too. We're putting 50 more police officers on the streets.

Ron Moran

But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.

Jay Wright

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players' names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

James McGreevey

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year,

Madeline Albright

We are allies. We have responsibilities to each other. That's why our troops have been here with Italy's permission for so many years,

Bobbi Brown

Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Nothing Can Make You Suffer, Without Your Silent Permission

Joy Page

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you can choose to be.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

Patricia Schroeder

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

Paulo Coelho

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Michael Keaton

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

Robert Baxter

They just told me we had no permission to go from his commanders,

NeNe Leakes

I was kind of reluctant to sing on the 'Housewives' because there are so many 'Housewives' that are singing that can't really sing. I didn't want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously.

Paul Register

Many times you have witnesses who are reluctant to come forward.

Ian Baker

We were very reluctant to make the move, but we had no choice.

Mark Howard

He was reluctant to integrate. And he wasn't alone.

James Greenwood

Reluctant witnesses will not keep us from getting at the truth.

Eve Ensler

At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy, but once they got going, you couldn't stop them.

Cindy Winstead

At first I was very reluctant and for about three weeks I was unable to sleep.

John Negroponte

I've been very reluctant to get into numbers.

Dean Darling

We don't want them (veterans) unaware or reluctant to seek out services for which they are entitled.

Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Rod Page

He's probably the smallest individual, other than the consumer.