In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
Suzanne Vega

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
James F. Cooper

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.
Frank Shorter

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
Gene Simmons

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Bertrand Russell

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
Al Stewart

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
Christopher Plummer

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.
John Desmond Bernal

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
Candace Cameron

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.
Jennifer Dunn

Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.
Don Sherwood

Personal liberty is not personal license.
Billy Sunday

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Pete Rose

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Raoul Vaneigem

So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.
Robert McChesney

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

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
Robert Casey

The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.
Howard Luck Gossage

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.
Lindsay Wagner

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
Beck