David Milch Quotes

I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all.

David Milch

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• New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Moments
  • New York

• We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Law
  • Down
  • Environmental

• While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Time
  • Good
  • Others

• I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Science
  • Political

• It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Christian

• Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Want
  • You

• The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Law

• By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Employment

• My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Live
  • Children

• I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • Good
  • Future

• San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Home
  • City
  • Evening

• I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Family
  • Father

• I rather disdained than coveted the luxuries I saw : alas ! we desire riches more for others than ourselves.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Desire

• We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that's where women have to break through.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Women
  • Country

• If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If a friendship makes me love Hugh more, then I can trust that friendship. If it thrusts itself between us, then it should be cut out, and quickly.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Trust
  • Friendship

• For me to love you now Would be the sweetest thing, 'Twould make me sing, Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

  

  Donovan
  • May
  • Wind

• Things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me, that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one. There's other stuff out there for them to listen to.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Enough
  • Record
  • Waves

• I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all.

  

  David Milch
  • Time
  • Law
  • City