Quotes of: Official Keyword

I went into umpiring at age 16. I got into officiating because of the fact that I could not stand the referees that worked our basketball games.

Doug Harvey

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

Phil Ochs

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

Jaron Lanier

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

Scott McCallum

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

Samantha Power

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Gregory Bateson

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Roger Mudd

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

George McGovern

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

Gary Ackerman

Customs official: Anything to declare? Avi: Yeah. Don't go to England.

Snatch.

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

Douglas Feith

Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.

Richard Stallman

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Ernest Istook

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

Ali Babacan

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

Ashleigh Brilliant

As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.

Uzo Aduba

What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.

Wavy Gravy

For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.

Barton Gellman

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

Bill Ayers

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

John le Carre

Hmm, I officially amend my previous statement. Clearly one of them is that stupid.

Limerick