License Quotes

We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth.

When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

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.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

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

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

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.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.

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.

I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.