Top 100 Quotes About License
#1. What was it about Halloween that gave every girl license to dress as slutty as possible?
Kim Askew
#2. 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.
Charles Comiskey
#3. Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.
Austin O'Malley
#4. I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.
Richard Griffiths
#5. Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.
Omer Bartov
#6. These newspaper reporters ... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times ... have got a license to lie.
Edward Bennett Williams
#7. I don't think the BBC supporting digital switchover is top slicing. Top slicing is putting the license fee up for grabs for other broadcasters to bid for.
Jeremy Hunt
#8. God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.
Francis Chan
#9. Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes
Kjiva
#10. Nothing exceeds the license occasionally taken by the imagination of very rigid people.
Henry James
#11. New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.
Theo James
#12. When I first got my driver's license, I was hit by a drunk driver. He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.
Amy Heckerling
#13. But she actually was glad to have identified the one thing about Jasper she'd change, because it was similar to realizing what you'd forgotten to take on a trip, and if it was only perfume, as opposed to your driver's license, you were relieved.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#14. Bestowing upon men equality of rights is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak. It begets the grossest inequality of condition.
George Fitzhugh
#15. James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
Gene Simmons
#16. The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.
Lindsay Wagner
#17. Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Pete Rose
#18. I had discovered that being a writer gave you a lot of license to fiddle with the truth, but I'd better not get into the habit of it.
Robert McCammon
#19. I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.
Harry Chapin
#20. 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
#21. When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.
Theodore Roosevelt
#22. It is found in understanding that the only people who are doing God's will are those who have repented and been born again. God's grace is not a license to sin, but a temporary opportunity to repent and receive forgiveness.
David Servant
#23. The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.
Bill Moyers
#24. Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car.
Taylor Hanson
#25. 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.
Damian Lewis
#26. Let me define prayer for you in this show. Prayer is man giving God permission or license to interfere in earth's affairs. In other words, prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference.
Myles Munroe
#27. Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.
Michael Jackson
#29. My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.
Josh Turner
#30. One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to follow anything anywhere and see where it might take you, how it can transform you, whether in content or form.
Gregory Allen Howard
#31. I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.
Mark Hoppus
#32. I don't know if I have the patience and I don't have a trainers license but I will help out. Whether I want to do that full time, I doubt it.
Joe Calzaghe
#33. A Patent is not a license to make money, it is a license to prevent others from making money.
Kalyan C. Kankanala
#35. Wearing this kind of costume is not something I fantasize about. It's not natural, it's not comfortable. I don't see myself as this. But it gives you dramatic license to do almost anything when you're dressed as a bug.
Joan Severance
#36. Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.
Mitch Daniels
#38. Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
Al Stewart
#39. It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
Jess C. Scott
#40. You'd better be careful, they are going to revoke your vampire license if you get any more romantic and mushy."
"Don't worry," Burnett said, his eyes pinched as if serious. "I can still be a jackass, and kick ass, when it's called for.
C.C. Hunter
#41. Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
Horace
#42. Being a champion opens lots of doors - I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.
Mike Tyson
#43. It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.
Ingrid Michaelson
#44. Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else's, to give ourselves permission to speculate upon a person's private space, or life, with no fear of recourse or punishment.
Julie Wilson
#45. The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.
Carl Jung
#46. If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.
John Bingham
#47. 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.
Howard Gossage
#48. Beware of license to the flesh, under the coat of liberty of the Spirit; and let none thinke that law-curses, looseth us from all law-obedience; or that Christ hath cryed down the tenne commandments; and that Gospel-liberty is a dispensation for law-loosenesse; or that free grace is a lawless Pope.
Samuel Rutherford
#49. If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.
Thomas Friedman
#50. "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.
Horace
#51. I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.
Robert Ballard
#52. Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.
Shepard Fairey
#53. You cannot drive the car if you do not have a driver's license. You cannot do brain surgery if you are not a brain surgeon. You cannot even do a massage if you don't have a license.
Bikram Choudhury
#54. 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?
Samuel Hopkins
#55. Nate hated, really hated, being told he thought too much. Jason wasn't the only one who said it: hippie-dippie types who romanticize the natural and the "intuitive" also prefer feeling to thought. But not thinking was a way of giving oneself license to be a dick.
Adelle Waldman
#56. According to the date on Van's driver's license, he was seventeen. Somehow he'd looked a lot older when he'd been trying to cut my head off.
Helen Keeble
#57. Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
Vera Nazarian
#58. Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.
Leo Strauss
#59. So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.
Robert McChesney
#60. Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#61. Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.
David Letterman
#62. When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Will Durant
#63. I went into radio in 1965 when I got a license for CJOR 600 AM. It was my second business.
Jim Pattison
#64. The Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
Cory Doctorow
#65. Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.
Confucius
#67. You give a guy a license to
steal, you've got to expect him to use it.
Bruce Sterling
#68. Marriage is the only game where the trapped animal has to buy the license.
Dan Poynter
#69. Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#70. A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.
Shaun McNiff
#71. A true Christian does not see God's promise of forgiveness as a license to sin, a way to abuse His love and presume on His grace. Rather, he sees God's gracious forgiveness as the means to spiritual growth and sanctification. He continually thanks God for His great love and willingness to forgive.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#72. The next morning he drove the stranger's car half way to the Registry of Motor Vehicles before he realized he could not apply for a driver's license. He suddenly realized he had left his name at the prison.
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#73. What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.
Desmond Tutu
#74. Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
Diane Arbus
#75. Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.
Margaret Mead
#76. Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.
Van Jones
#77. And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.
Suzanne Vega
#78. The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#80. Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one.
Carlo Gambino
#81. You'd then drive your vehicle to a tree, beneath which the examiner sat. He or she would ask you to park. If you managed to do so without knocking over the tree or hitting the examiner, you had a license.
Colin Cotterill
#82. A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.
Jerzy Kosinski
#83. A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
Frank Zappa
#84. I wanted to sit there forever, drinking in bitter satisfaction, using someone else as a license. In the years that followed, I did a lot of that.
Pete Hamill
#85. Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.
Don Sherwood
#86. Yes ... well, I used to have a pilot's license.
Will Wright
#87. Too young,too young,she chanted to herself.
Wrong,of course.
I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver's license,she was right.
Stephenie Meyer
#88. Wyatt Fox. It suited him. Clean, masculine, not a syllable wasted. Like James Bond, if 007 included cowboy-marine-firefighter in his stable of personae.
Fox.
Wyatt Fox. License to thrill - and send your panties plummeting.
Kate Meader
#89. God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.
John Wycliffe
#90. 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
#91. I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't imagine my life without them.
Margaret Cho
#92. I don't know if it was the excitement that did it, but by the time we started our tiptoe across the icy, rutted skid yard to that shed Priya had quit shivering, but I was trembling like a marriage license in a young man's hand.
Elizabeth Bear
#93. I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."
William S. Burroughs
#94. Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
David Attenborough
#95. It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license ... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
Jeff Dunham
#96. Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.
Hugh Nibley
#97. 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.
Patty Hearst
#98. Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.
Linus Torvalds
#99. Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the license to look at them quickly - to consume them and move on.
James Elkins
#100. Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification. Biometric verification of identity must be made and then a data base of those persons who have legal status must be checked.
Bob Dole
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