FastSaying

I have closed more liquor establishments than any council member in the history of that council.


Councilman Michael Polensek

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I was a member of the Haifa City Council when I was 23 years old, which made me the youngest city co...
AYMAN ODEH Last year when an earlier version of the sewer cost-of-service study was under review, we received h...
DAVID MCKINLEY I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.
GENE GREEN I challenge each member of the council to donate a month of their (council) salary to pay for the gi...
FRANK COCCHO Each member of this council received the same tax increase percentage that each member that's compla...
COUNCILMAN NORMAN SUGARMAN I don't think there is one member of this council -- not one -- who would be influenced by a meal. I...
KATHY VOGT These missiles in any case cannot exceed more than 150 kilometers, so we are within the resolution o...
MOHAMMED ALDOURI Given his background and history, it raises some questions. It doesn't mean the requests are imprope...
MAYOR SCOTT SLIFKA I think she attended more council meetings than any local official. We knew that her criticism was i...
BARBARA SURWILO Mr. Walker sent his resume unsolicited to every council member.
MARTIN EGGLESTON We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that respons...
DEWEY POTTER In my opinion, the next council member should be Fran Black Holland. She had the next-highest votes....
HAROLD SMITH The new Human Rights Council will have 47 member countries, not individuals, and the election will b...
DESRA PERCAYA This is a chance for the arts council to show we appreciate member support.
GAIL PARSONS I'm out of order!. You are not council president any more. I'm so ashamed.
BOB CHIDLOW I'm opposed to the suggestion of changing city council in any way.
TED HICKS I'm not going to sit here as a member of this council and let you disrespect me!
KAREN CASON The role that Japan has thus far played can be a firm foundation for it becoming a permanent member ...
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI What I like best is that we're including every member of the council, the mayor and the city attorne...
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG I wasn't sure whether I had the right City Council to handle it. But you do have the right Council h...
BOB BUTLER Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, s...
MICHAEL MCCAUL He had no coattails, so there's not a single member of the City Council who owes their election to h...
HOWARD WOLFSON The council did not change the charter. The charter says, 'Neither the mayor or council can serve mo...
DAVID PIPER I think any payment except wages and utilities should go through the council.
ALVA MARTIN The council is concerned about spending any amount of money on this.
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG No sitting mayor and no sitting council member should adopt an ordinance that provides a competitive...
PATRICK O'NEILL More often than not, the council members would be at odds with things the mayor was pushing.
BOB BLAYNEY The letter offended me personally, not as a council member, but as a citizen of Warrick County. I in...
GARY MEYER As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, Russia's contribution to bringing all ...
STEPHANE DUJARRIC They will have two- or three-hour meetings before the public arrives. They will hash out everything ...
FRANK GIBSON [He said the police only started attending meetings in recent weeks after he was appointed to the co...
BOB BREWER [The flier says Edmonds supports] allowing everyone ... has supported allowing a convention of party...
BOB FERGUSON Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has a...
JANE ALEXANDER There'll be a lot of diplomacy going on. There's no question that all 15 member states of the Securi...
ARI FLEISCHER I was out of town and did not attend the last council meeting, but according to our city ordinance, ...
JAMES ROBINSON Any community is faced, and has been faced for years, with the criticism that redevelopment takes pl...
COLIN DRIVER Brazil wants to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council. That means we have to particip...
PEDRO MOTTA It's funny. When I started on council, I was the youngest person in the room, including the members ...
CURT GANTZ When it comes to exercise equipment, you really do get what you pay for. The low-end stuff won't hav...
AMERICAN COUNCIL Global Learning for All.
AMERICAN COUNCIL What Makes Racial Diversity Work in Higher Education.
AMERICAN COUNCIL Many people sit in front of a computer all day while at the office. When they go to work out, they a...
AMERICAN COUNCIL [Tulane students are finding ways to apply to other schools, as well, for the fall semester.] The st...
AMERICAN COUNCIL We do not believe that you can ask people who have been victims of an ongoing repression and most re...
AMERICAN COUNCIL If you're tired of the health club scene, and time, convenience and privacy are important to you, th...
AMERICAN COUNCIL Muslims in Norway feel violated twice in this case - first through the caricatures and then by the N...
ISLAMIC COUNCIL Muslims are required to follow the law of the land and since the law of Australia prohibits a second...
ISLAMIC COUNCIL The law is about preventing unreasonable vilification that is not in good faith, and we see that as ...
ISLAMIC COUNCIL It was so outdated (City Council) couldn't hardly do anything. It keeps them more in tune with curre...
DON MOORE We should not create a precedent when NATO acts outside the territories of its member-states without...
YEVGENY PRIMAKOV You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human e...
EDDIE MARSAN I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON He met with each member of the staff and they absolutely, unanimously thought he should be hired and...
MAYOR JOYCE SOMERS The Security Council cannot plead ignorance to the tragedy taking place in northern Uganda yet they ...
GREG PULEY We worked with the council to put this stuff together, so I don't expect any surprises.
JEFF MCDONALD The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderwe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN up close when I was in the City Council.
ANTHONY WEINER What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political de...
JEANE KIRKPATRICK Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very pu...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR. I think as long as each council member feels they're allowed to express their views -- (any candidat...
ELIZABETH GOREHAM The procedure is that the committee makes its recommendation to the City Council and, of course, the...
DOMINIC CANDELORO I thought it was unnecessary. It's up to the bar owner, the one who holds the liquor license, to be ...
DAN CLOUTIER We consider any referral or report of Iran to the Security Council as the end of diplomacy.
ALI LARIJANI The Council is in the midst of significant restructuring.
MARIA ALVARADO If you want to own a bar or tavern, you have to abide by local and state laws.
COUNCILMAN MICHAEL POLENSEK The ball lies in the administration's court.
COUNCILMAN MICHAEL POLENSEK This is a long, long time coming. I want to get in it as soon as possible.
COUNCILMAN MICHAEL POLENSEK Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
CAITLIN MORAN The city administrator works for the council, the council does not work for the city administrator.
FRANK FISHER I think the new council will have to deal with that situation because it's completely illegal.
CHARLES SPENCER We have more shareholders than any time in our history.
BOB FAISS There's been a lot of emotion that we haven't seen in other Town Council elections. We're hearing a ...
CAROL BRUCE Why I blame the structure [of Student Council] is because I do think the people in council are commi...
JOELLA FINK The United States, like other U.N. members and especially as a Security Council member, will keep it...
ALEXANDER VERSHBOW We didn't have any Ku Klux Klan in Washington, D.C. There was no White Citizens Council. I mean, the...
ED SMITH We're delighted to welcome BLIMPIE as the 102nd member of the Whole Grains Council. We salute BLIMPI...
CYNTHIA HARRIMAN I was very afraid. We closed the offices for months. The mullahs went back to their homes. We didn't...
ABDUL AZIZ this last chance, and continues its defiance, the council will have to make another grim choice, bas...
KOFI ANNAN Only the Council is authorized to make binding decisions on suspending cooperation with a state in a...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council.
ELAINE ADAMS This is a ridiculous move by the City Council. The price of gasoline depends on supply and demand, n...
JAMES HAMILTON India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happ...
PRATIBHA PATIL The Mainland Affairs Council currently has not received any formal applications and so I can't respo...
JOSEPH WU In 1998 the new council brought stability into our municipal government. That's a very important thi...
BILL CHERTOK The mayor assists the Council in making decisions.
LARRY DAVIS This is now an even worse deal than the bad deal that seven members of the council voted for last ye...
ADRIAN FENTY I would not approve the raise because the town can't afford it. If we could afford it, we would give...
DOT BROWN I would not approve the raise because the town can't afford it. If we could afford it, we would give...
DOT BROWN I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
HUMPHREY BOGART The kids really sold that vote, more than any adult, any administrator or any school board member wh...
SEAN CASEY I think this is important that this is coming before the council in an election season.
DENNIS ROSA The understanding of that is you take the number of members of the council, and you have your number...
DAVID LAWRENCE I'm 63 years old and I have no higher political aspiration than the Oldsmar City Council. This is no...
JANICE MILLER I had a conversation with [city councilman] Jack Evans the other day, ... There is no reason why we ...
BOB DUPUY I had a conversation with [city councilman] Jack Evans the other day. There is no reason why we can'...
BOB DUPUY I don't think we ever had before the Council discussion of the sewer cost of service study, you know...
DICK MURPHY I would like to ask the council to respect my recommendations, ... If the council chooses to do othe...
JAMES PERKINS What really bothered me was that staff did not have the courtesy to provide the bad news in the coun...
DENNIS HUSCH The U.S. would very much like to bring this to the council if we can get sufficient support, ... We ...
ANNE PATTERSON He has by far the most diverse group of supporters of almost any City Council or King County Council...
GEORGE GRIFFIN

More Councilman Michael Polensek

If you want to own a bar or tavern, you have to abide by local and state laws.
COUNCILMAN MICHAEL POLENSEK The ball lies in the administration's court.
COUNCILMAN MICHAEL POLENSEK This is a long, long time coming. I want to get in it as soon as possible.
COUNCILMAN MICHAEL POLENSEK My little grandson just loves that little shallow area there.
COUNCILMAN FRANK LOPEZ The reason we charge for parking and continue to charge for parking is that we have a lifeguard on d...
COUNCILMAN DAVID DRUKER Mark Lewis was the tale of two city managers: He was the best we ever had and he was the worst we ev...
COUNCILMAN CLEM LEE The true concept of what art really is, is it's beauty is in the eye of the beholder and there are 1...
COUNCILMAN ROGER FLORES It's hard to fathom $80,000 just for a bid.
COUNCILMAN DAVE TAFOYA I am hopeful someone will come forward with information, which will lead to the eventual apprehensio...
COUNCILMAN DENNIS ZINE What I would like to see you say is no, and redo the developer's agreement. Why don't we stop and st...
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE That's the question we pondered.
COUNCILMAN KENNETH WROBEL I think if we override, it's incumbent on us to say where we're going to go. We can't keep throwing ...
COUNCILMAN GARY OKINO If he made commitments when running, he has to listen to them. I think having a dialogue with them i...
COUNCILMAN DENNIS ZINE Any money that comes to this city ... is needed to keep us afloat.
COUNCILMAN HENRY FICKLIN I want to keep this in the forefront and keep it moving forward.
COUNCILMAN DAVID VENTO He never pulled the trigger on his candidacy. That was not for me to do, or for anybody else.
COUNCILMAN CLEM LEE I certainly don't want them in our parks and one of those parks happens to be in my ward. Let's face...
COUNCILMAN DAVE KUCHERER I really can't say for sure what the consensus might be at this time. Obviously, the (landlord ordin...
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG The difference between the new comprehensive plan and the old one is this one has a 'strategic actio...
COUNCILMAN DAVE KUCHERER When taxes come in, we're going to have another surplus of money. I don't know if we are doing right...
COUNCILMAN CHARLES MATTHEWS Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no lo...
WILLIAM THOMAS COUNCILMAN I spent eight hours here last week on this budget. When we left here you were ready to take a vote. ...
COUNCILMAN CHARLES MATTHEWS The key is establishing probable cause. I think that's what we need to work on to make this thing wo...
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG The council is concerned about spending any amount of money on this.
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG What I like best is that we're including every member of the council, the mayor and the city attorne...
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG There's nothing preventing us from making stronger rules.
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG If you file a complaint today, the rules we have now make it difficult to even get a hearing. The po...
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG Anything we do should be in the spirit of transparency and open government.
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG Most of this council believes a stronger ethics code will go a long way toward promoting transparenc...
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG I'll have a big smile on my face.
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE People are in business to make money, and I can't see why the city would subsidize those things.
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE We could pass an ordinance that accomplishes the same purpose. Then, it won't cost us anything.
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE We might as well buy the whole package.
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE We should do the event center parking.
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE The city's going to have to take care of this itself.
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE The only one I would really question was the need for the landscaping, but given it is only $100,000...
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE It raised some eyebrows, certainly raised some eyebrows with me. And I will do everything I can to m...
COUNCILMAN ROGER FLORES We're trying to be a port for (entities) outside of San Antonio, outside of Texas, outside of the co...
COUNCILMAN ROGER FLORES And you can even adopt a pet, not this one though.
COUNCILMAN ROGER FLORES The council is challenged to work for the welfare of the city as a whole, not for a few individuals ...
COUNCILMAN NORMAN SUGARMAN Each member of this council received the same tax increase percentage that each member that's compla...
COUNCILMAN NORMAN SUGARMAN I voted for (Patel), but I wanted to be clear in my mind that he met the requirements before I voted...
COUNCILMAN NORMAN SUGARMAN It's been a sticky subject for a lot of the council for a long time, but I guess no one really wante...
COUNCILMAN KENNETH WROBEL I think it's largely symbolic just to show that we're a small little city here in Flat Rock and we c...
COUNCILMAN KENNETH WROBEL I am really taken aback by that. Just to single out churches is not fair.
COUNCILMAN HENRY FICKLIN The balance sheet does not support (bonuses).
COUNCILMAN HENRY FICKLIN This amounted to a raise.
COUNCILMAN HENRY FICKLIN It's wrong for us to allow teenagers in a club atmosphere with adults who are drinking. It's just no...
COUNCILMAN HAL MARTIN The city is really moving this along faster than I expected. It's exciting to see how much progress ...
COUNCILMAN HAL MARTIN This means we are putting this project on the fast track. We have talked about this happening for 15...
COUNCILMAN HAL MARTIN The No. 1 priority of the city is the health and safety of its residents. And traffic is always the ...
COUNCILMAN HAL MARTIN I hate to see the individual property owner get hurt. People had certain rights when they bought the...
COUNCILMAN HAL MARTIN It should be a pretty interesting year with the elections. You have to watch how the council votes d...
COUNCILMAN HAL MARTIN The current reorganization created more inefficiencies than the efficiencies that it was supposed to...
COUNCILMAN GARY OKINO I think it's the best decision he could have made. I'm very supportive.
COUNCILMAN GARY OKINO If he had another site, that would have been great, too.
COUNCILMAN GARY OKINO You should bring in new people because you get new ideas, new enthusiasm.
COUNCILMAN GARY OKINO I think he did pretty good, actually. He started off really good. I thought he did what he had to do...
COUNCILMAN GARY OKINO I would hate to see a tree come down on a little kid ---- a little child ---- all because we didn't ...
COUNCILMAN FRANK LOPEZ We need an up-to-date review. What went on two years ago is different than what's going on today.
COUNCILMAN FRANK LOPEZ Our own people are going to other cities because we can't provide our own fields.
COUNCILMAN FRANK LOPEZ We need an image change in our community here. If we don't build this today, in the future it'll cos...
COUNCILMAN FRANK LOPEZ It's unfortunate, but we don't have any choice. We had a case here where an experienced detective ma...
COUNCILMAN DENNIS ZINE We're going to continue our investigation into how an experienced detective working homicide could l...
COUNCILMAN DENNIS ZINE Why should we pay if we're not culpable of anything? They're trying to hold the taxpayers responsibl...
COUNCILMAN DENNIS ZINE I'm not prepared to pay $18 million to settle that case.
COUNCILMAN DENNIS ZINE If he made commitments when running, he has to listen to them. I think having a dialogue with them i...
COUNCILMAN DENNIS ZINE The police can't do anything if they don't know what's going on.
COUNCILMAN DAVID VENTO I don't know if everybody's aware of what's going on.
COUNCILMAN DAVID VENTO That could be something as simple as a discussion about the seriousness of it and do we or do we not...
COUNCILMAN DAVID PHELEN I certainly am getting a multitude of comments on the street and e-mails from citizens saying he is ...
COUNCILMAN DAVID PHELEN I think of the house you could build for ($900,000).
COUNCILMAN DAVID PHELEN Businesses should do that themselves.
COUNCILMAN DAVID PHELEN We should drop the program.
COUNCILMAN DAVID PHELEN It's just a holiday gift to the residents and to all the visitors from throughout the world.
COUNCILMAN DAVID DRUKER A bunch of insane, crazy people like me go into the water at 11 a.m. on Jan. 1 and then get doughnut...
COUNCILMAN DAVID DRUKER If we would have gotten it, we would have been really surprised.
COUNCILMAN DAVID DEGEROLAMO It would just create another chance for people to do things in our downtown area.
COUNCILMAN DAVID DEGEROLAMO I have no regrets about that. I do what is best for the city of Roy.
COUNCILMAN DAVE TAFOYA It's painful. No one likes to lose.
COUNCILMAN DAVE TAFOYA It goes against what our comprehensive plan promotes. In the strategic action section, it talks abou...
COUNCILMAN DAVE KUCHERER Believe me, when I first heard that $28 million figure, I had trouble eating and sleeping for a few ...
COUNCILMAN DAVE KUCHERER There are multiple things wrong with it (the existing ordinance), it has regulations going back to t...
COUNCILMAN DAVE KUCHERER There's a sensitivity to doing things better than maybe we've done in the past. So we're going to de...
COUNCILMAN CLEM LEE We have to remember what brought us to this point. It's been the aggressive reinvestment ... everyth...
COUNCILMAN CLEM LEE The Ed Chavez era just started. I think you're going to see a different show in 2006.
COUNCILMAN CLEM LEE Ice cream trucks represent a spontaneous opportunity for kids to get into a certain kind of mischief...
COUNCILMAN CLEM LEE You try to scare the public.
COUNCILMAN CHARLES MATTHEWS He is leading by his example of work and the effort he puts in. He's raised the level of expectation...
COUNCILMAN ROGER FLORES There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth c...
MICHAEL GOUGH You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't le...
MICHAEL SHANNON You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.
MICHAEL MINA Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There&...
MICHAEL SYMON We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. ...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravag...
MICHAEL PATERNITI When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se...
MICHAEL JACKSON People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't...
MICHAEL JACKSON Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
MICHAEL JACKSON Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straigh...
MICHAEL JACKSON Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours wi...
MICHAEL JACKSON Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parti...
MICHAEL JACKSON Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and e...
MICHAEL JACKSON Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
MICHAEL JACKSON Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and cha...
MICHAEL JACKSON There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used ...
MICHAEL JACKSON It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the ...
MICHAEL JACKSON I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
MICHAEL JACKSON If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everyt...
MICHAEL JACKSON I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
MICHAEL PORTER That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
MICHAEL STRAHAN I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan.
MICHAEL CARBONARO To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnersh...
MICHAEL BURGESS I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and...
MICHAEL JORDAN The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
MICHAEL KORDA I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and d...
MICHAEL JACKSON In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as i...
MICHAEL KORDA I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to repl...
MICHAEL OWEN Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.
MICHAEL OVITZ It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar...
MICHAEL JORDAN Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N...
MICHAEL JORDAN I've never been afraid to fail.
MICHAEL JORDAN There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
MICHAEL JORDAN I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's...
MICHAEL BUBLE Yauch was a gifted MC.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Yauch was great at lacking fear.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.
MICHAEL STUHLBARG I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all ...
MICHAEL STRAHAN It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a doubl...
MICHAEL POLLAN Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net...
MICHAEL CAINE I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca...
MICHAEL LEUNIG There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b...
MICHAEL NUTTER In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st...
MICHAEL HANEKE Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your thr...
MICHAEL ROOKER The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle...
MICHAEL LEUNIG A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.
MICHAEL KORS You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE If you copy then it is not self-expression.
MICHAEL SCHENKER I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both w...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.
MICHAEL ASTON Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and mo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o...
MICHAEL MORPURGO War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want peo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for tr...
MICHAEL MORPURGO We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really...
MICHAEL MORPURGO By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to...
MICHAEL MORPURGO To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.
MICHAEL MORPURGO Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write...
MICHAEL MORPURGO One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeedi...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
MICHAEL MORPURGO The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.
MICHAEL MORPURGO It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you wi...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a schoo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to undere...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at a...
MICHAEL MORPURGO It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwritin...
MICHAEL MORPURGO My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of ...
MICHAEL KORS Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
MICHAEL POLLAN 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable...
MICHAEL SHEEN One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
MICHAEL PALIN The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fa...
MICHAEL SHEEN Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A l...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
MICHAEL FRANTI To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest...
MICHAEL JORDAN Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-h...
MICHAEL LEUNIG Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western ...
MICHAEL NOVAK I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and ...
MICHAEL ANTI One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, ...
MICHAEL FROME A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
MICHAEL BOLTON Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ...
MICHAEL BOLTON The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River&#...
MICHAEL KORYTA The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it...
MICHAEL GRAVES With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
MICHAEL STIPE I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf...
MICHAEL DELONG Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo...
MICHAEL ARRINGTON You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth...
MICHAEL POLLAN