Quotes of: Ban Keyword

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Peter Stuyvesant

I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.

Eric Lewis

Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

Adrian Cronauer

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

Alice Dreger

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

Vikram Seth

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

David Suzuki

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

Rachel Weisz

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged the...

Leland Ryken

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

Ginny Brown-Waite

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!

Christa Miller

Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.

Bradley A. Smith

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Jon Johansen

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

Thabo Mbeki

Mr. Sandhu: [after Shaun finally leaves the shop] Oh, and you're banned. Shaun: Oh, and you're a mong.

This Is England

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

William Weld

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Ezra Pound

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Mary Cheney