#lice

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #interrogation #police #humor

He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate. ↗

— Ron Atkinson

#had #plate #sliced

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. ↗

— David Attenborough

#britain #broadcaster #course #government #grant

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues. ↗

— Alan Autry

#around #continues #cooperation #country #federal

In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders. ↗

— Joe Baca

#allowing #borders #fact #government #homeland

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#firearms #licensing #pass #people #registration

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#clean #clean up #gun #guns #industry

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance. ↗

— John Barrow

#cost #element #everything #fortune #good

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#admire #again #alice #ask #i

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#i #make #never #policeman #seen