Unfunded Mandate Quotes & Sayings

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. — John M. Ford

Oh my God ...
Xhex's heart stopped as she looked at him in the mirror. Across his upper back, in a glorious spread of black ink ... in a declaration that didn't whisper but shouted ... in a billboard-size front with flourishes ...
Her name in the Old Language. — J.R. Ward

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights. — Uwe Boll

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return. — George Stillman Hillard

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you. — Oscar Peterson

I don't feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can. — Lykke Li

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up. — John Updike

We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers. — Bob Filner

Here in a place where there's just wind an waves and light, and the intricate machinery that keeps the flame burning and the lantern turning. Always turning. Always looking over its shoulder — M.L. Stedman

I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it. — Kevin Spacey

Whenever death occurs, whenever a life form dissolves, God, the formless and unmanifested, shines through the opening left by the dissolving form. — Eckhart Tolle