Quotes About Carte

#1. Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

Florence King

#2. The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.

Ted Gup

#3. You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#4. He had carte blanche to eat whatever he wanted. No amount of broccoli and vitamin D kills ten lung tumors and I know not how many brain tumors. Have the tiramisu.

Thomm Quackenbush

#5. Nowhere does it say free speech is carte blanche to be a jerk. And don't cheapen real free speech by hijacking an honourable concept bought dearly with people's lives just to get a little spotlight. Spotlights run hot, and they can burn.

Karen Traviss

#6. This project is very close to my heart, a carte blanche to do what I want, with little compromise. Design can also be fun, personal, and very close to your heart. Your life is your design. Make it resemble you, reflect you, and be close to your heart.

Ayse Birsel

#7. She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

Simon Doonan

#8. Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

Marilyn Manson

#9. You use your Bible like you were ordering from a restaurant menu. I call that Bible a la carte. You choose what parts of the Bible you wish to obey and what others to ignore.

Mark Segal

#10. In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

John Cale

#11. In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Jose Bergamin

#12. I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire.

David Ginola

#13. On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!

Cristin Milioti

#14. We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche.

C.S. Lewis

#15. No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

Michael Scheuer

#16. You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.

Joe Biden

#17. If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Brian Eno

#18. Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#19. I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

Patsy Kensit

#20. Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it."
"Of course we will," Sophye said.
"He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said.
"No, he asked me to marry him."
There was a short stunned silence.
Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said.

Loretta Chase

#21. I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Edmund Burke

#22. Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Bryant H. McGill

#23. Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#24. I don't want to become known as just a body.

Taylor Lautner

#25. My will is not a place, but a condition. Do not ask Me where and when, but ask Me how.

Frances J Roberts

#26. I'd have to eat that

Cheryl Strayed

#27. And he's wearing some exotic cologne that makes me want to eat him.

Ellen Hopkins

#28. Make sure your fun is not mocking someone's pain and your enjoyment is not another's suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.

Shahla Khan