License Quotes

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

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.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

Even if you are angry and you have reason to be angry, that doesn't give you license to be cruel. We have to take responsibility for ourselves and the way we act.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

Angelina Jolie’s older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it’s not that weird. After all, he could be the father.

I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.

I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn.

I've been having a lot of dance parties alone in my apartment while learning to cook. Part of my quest to be an attractive single is to learn how to cook and sew and get a license.

The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

I started out coming out of college, I had my realtor's license and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

Marriage is the only game where the trapped animal has to buy the license.

I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.

Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.

Rick Perry is now saying he thinks that Barack Obama's birth certificate is fake. I think Perry may have faked his driver's license.

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

He [Bill Clinton] lost his license. He had to pay an $850,000 fine.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

So mothers have God's license to be missed.

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary."

I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.

That's something I've always been down with: creative commons and people being able to license their music and allow other people to reuse it and recycle it.

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.

I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.

No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do, they'll get their license pulled, as well they should.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

I lose things all the time. I used to lose my license all the time before I put a place in my car for it.

I was born the day I got my license. When I was a kid, if I wanted to go somewhere and see things, you have to get in your car and actually go.