License Quotes - Page 14

• Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Simple, Order, Wish

  6 Copy quote

• Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Psychological, Stink, Faster

  10 Copy quote

• What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, People, Linux

  6 Copy quote

• You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Wall, Mean, Redneck

  7 Copy quote

• Whatever Party of Men obtain the Reins of Management, and have power to name the Person who shall License the Press, that Party of Men have the whole power of keeping the World in Ignorance, in all matters relating to Religion or Policy, since the Writers of that Party shall have full liberty to impose their Notions upon the World.

  Daniel Defoe

  Party, Ignorance, Men

  Daniel Defoe (1704). “An Essay on the Regulation of the Press”, p.4

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees... I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92, but... thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!

  Red Buttons

  Cancer, Feet, Florida

  53 Copy quote

• Sex after one child shows down. After twins... ooh... I'll tell you what it is for us. I'll share it with you. Every three months. We don't plan it that way. That's just how it works out. It's the weirdest thing. You know what I do? Every time I have sex, the next day I pay my estimated tax. My quarterlies are due. If it's oral sex, I renew my driver's license.

  Ray Romano

  Sex, Children, Next Day

  10 Copy quote

• What (the Arizona immigration law) is likely to mean effectively is that if in the course of a traffic stop, a cop asks you for a driver's license, and you don't have one, and he asks you for other identification, and you have none, and he calls ICE and they have no record of you as a legal immigrant, you're in trouble. This is near-fascism?

  Rich Lowry

  Mean, Ice, Law

  4 Copy quote

• The fastest way to bring financial ruin upon yourself is to go for a drive in the United States without proof of insurance and current license and registration.

  Hank Stuever

  United States, Way, Ruins

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 29, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You might be a redneck if you consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dad, Redneck, Might

  8 Copy quote

• When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Liberty, Form

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

  Stephen King

  Responsibility, Gun, Car

  "CNN Debate: What Fonda, Cuban, Nye, Stone, Jillette and Patterson want to ask". www.cnn.com. September 16, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm on the diet where you eat vegetables and drink wine. That's a good diet. I lost 10 pounds and my driver's license.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Wine, Vegetables, Pounds

  27 Copy quote

• I can't see a problem with imposing fines on drivers who violate traffic safety laws. The speed limit is the speed limit. A red light means stop. These things haven't changed since people got their driver's licenses.

  Robert James Thomson

  Mean, Light, Law

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.

  Katy Grannan

  Nice, Knowing, Photograph

  9 Copy quote

• Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon just got themselves a marriage license. I think before she gets married again Pam needs to slow down and think about whether this is really the man she wants to spend three or four months of her life with.

  Chelsea Handler

  Men, Thinking, Three

  4 Copy quote

• Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Liberty

  4 Copy quote

• Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Dark, Thinking

  9 Copy quote

• My wife isn't very bright. The other day she was at the store, and just as she was heading for our car, someone stole it! I said, "Did you see the guy that did it?" She said, "No, but I got the license plate."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Wife

  20 Copy quote

• I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

  Noel Gallagher

  Car, Driving

  "Noel Gallagher's post-icon rock star life". Billboard Interview, www.today.com. August 21, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?" Wouldn't the logic just as likely (some would say far more likely) be, "Since we do not know whether this is protectable human life, therefore we will protect it?" Why does the judicial uncertainty about the humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it?

  John Piper

  Abortion, Humanity, Doe

  6 Copy quote

• As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.

  John Adams

  Revenge, Party, Inquiry

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.273

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• Takes more than combat gear to make a man
  Takes more than a license for a gun
  Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
  A gentleman will walk but never run

  Sting

  Running, Gun, Men

  Song: Englishman in New York

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

  Jack Campbell

  People, Tactics, Authority

  Jack Campbell (2012). “Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Invincible”, p.140, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...He went to Scotland and studied under Lister...("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland...He was referred to as a crazy Listerite.....He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia.

  Paul Douglas

  Crazy, Dark, Opportunity

  4 Copy quote