Statement Quotes

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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be… — Earl Warren
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer. — Orson Welles
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that… — Vivienne Westwood
I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness. — Lucinda Williams
This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative. — Ron Ziegler
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing. — Ezra Pound
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life. — Richard Paul Evans
When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will… — Max Lucado
Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter… — Charles Dickens
Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be… — Bess Streeter Aldrich
Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve… — David James Duncan
The idea that making an activity legal would reduce its incidence is preposterous. This is exactly like the Clintonian statement about wanting to make abortion… — Ann Coulter
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose. — Leo Buscaglia
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies. — Ram Dass
I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system.… — Howard Zinn
In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and… — Tom Robbins
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language. — Jacques Derrida
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremostâ€”not an… — David Wroblewski
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time.… — Abraham Lincoln
America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never… — Tom Wolfe

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