“Tellingly, the entire subject of philosophy, in which questions would be the core of a curriculum, is banned in Saudi.” — Karen Elliott House Copy Share Image
Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very… — Joseph Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brezil, Peru-- Oh, wait, no, I'm banned from Peru. I'd forgotten about that. It's a long… — Magnus Copy Share Image
At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand… — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small… — Jafar Panahi Copy Share Image
I read one time that I am permanently banned from Yankee Stadium and that I could never ever go back. This article… — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I should get banned from somewhere, I havent been banned from anywhere in a while... not since I was like 16 and… — Joel Zimmerman Copy Share Image
When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“I learned that the book was Then Again, Maybe I Won’t, which, along with other books by the same author, Judy Blume,… — Shulem Deen Copy Share Image
The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“Of course it's not okay with me, I'm a teenage boy. As far as I'm concerned, this is the worst thing that's… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking. — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
I have a dream: One day we will get to the promised land. Then the president will be me, The government will… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from… — Dada Maravilha Copy Share Image
You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number… — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
“She promised that if she saw me in the presence of any person on the banned list, she would run him over… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“Although i hate having to admit this, but the one good thing those annoying communists did right was to treat religion like… — Carlos Zen Copy Share Image
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I banned bottled water from my house - we have a water-filter system so you can drink from the tap. We always… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
Young adult author Richelle Mead holds the distinction to perhaps be the only author ever to have a book banned... before it… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Twitter died when the company banned me from its platform. I know that sounds egotistical. But remember what I just said. I'm… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Russia has banned all adoptions to Americans. So, if you were hoping to get a little white kid with fetal alcohol syndrome,… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image