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They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel. ~ Bruce Babbitt
Star Chamber quotes by Bruce Babbitt
[T]he most elaborate code of [law]... would still have left unspecified a hundred ways in which wreckers of Communism could have sidetracked it without ever having to face the essential questions: are you pulling your weight in the social boat? are you giving more trouble than you are worth? have you earned the privilege of living in a civilized community? That is why the Russians were forced to set up an Inquisition or Star Chamber, called at first the Cheka and now the Gay Pay Oo (Ogpu), to go into these questions and "liquidate" persons who could not answer them satisfactorily. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Star Chamber quotes by George Bernard Shaw
I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. ~ William Shakespeare
Star Chamber quotes by William Shakespeare
Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. ~ Ray Bradbury
Star Chamber quotes by Ray Bradbury
Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime. ~ Harry Kalven
Star Chamber quotes by Harry Kalven
No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything."

"You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children."

"Stop treating them like children and they'll stop behaving like children. Who the hell are you to play monitor?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Stop treating them like children. Explain the loaded gun to them. Bring it all out into the open." Foyle laughed savagely. "I've ended the last star-chamber conference in the world. I've blown that last secret wide open. No more secrets from now on.... No more telling the children what's best for them to know.... Let 'em all grow up. It's about time."

"Christ, he is insane."

"Am I? I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying. The common man's been whipped and led long enough by driven men like us.... Compulsive men... Tiger men who can't help lashing the world before them. We're all tigers, the three of us, but who the hell are we to make decisions for the world just because we're compulsive? Let the world make its own choice between life and death. Why should we be saddled with the responsibility?"

"We're not saddled," Y'ang-Yeovil said quietly. "We're driven. We're forced to seize responsibility that the average man shirks."

"Then let him stop shirking it. Let him stop tossing his duty and guilt onto the shoulders of the first freak who comes along grabbing at it. Are we to be scapegoa ~ Alfred Bester
Star Chamber quotes by Alfred Bester
It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion. ~ Edward Jenks
Star Chamber quotes by Edward Jenks
Your head is a lit chamber. ~ Dejan Stojanovic
Star Chamber quotes by Dejan Stojanovic
I am Ungit.' My voice came wailing out of me and I found that I was in the cool daylight and in my own chamber....Without question it was true. It was I who was Ungit. That ruinous face was mine. I was that Batta-thing, that all-devouring womblike, yet barren, thing. Glome as a web - I was the swollen spider, squat at its center, gorged with men's stolen lives. ~ C.S. Lewis
Star Chamber quotes by C.S. Lewis
You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from. ~ Tracey Ullman
Star Chamber quotes by Tracey Ullman
There were a million things, everything, I didn't know. I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. I took this thing I'm giving you back, this thing you gave me as the star we were waiting for finally emerged. ~ Daniel Handler
Star Chamber quotes by Daniel Handler
It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood? ~ Eddie Van Halen
Star Chamber quotes by Eddie Van Halen
If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it. ~ Robert Rodriguez
Star Chamber quotes by Robert Rodriguez
I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity. ~ Darren Star
Star Chamber quotes by Darren Star
La Nebuleuse is a poem of lovely & deep perspective, where, symboloized by artless beings, are seen the successive generations of men following each other uncomprehendingly, almost undiscerningly, so different are their souls, & always summed up, to the moment of their decline, by the child, the future, the "nebula", whose birth, finally confirmed, brings death. Under its morning clearness, to the faded smiles of aged stars. And, the vision ended, it is urged that this morrow, which is becoming today, will be altogether likes its dead brothers, & that in short there is nothing new in the spectacle which amuses the dead years leaning…

But this "nothingness" has no importance for the human atoms that form & determine it; it is the delightful newness that we breathe & of which we live. The new! The new! And let each intelligence, though short-lived, affirm his will to exist, & to be dissimilar to all antecedent or surrounding manifestations, & let each nebula aspire to the character of a star whose light shall be distinct & clear among other lights. ~ Remy De Gourmont
Star Chamber quotes by Remy De Gourmont
'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety. ~ Gregory Benford
Star Chamber quotes by Gregory Benford
I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum. ~ Pamela Anderson
Star Chamber quotes by Pamela Anderson
Any chance I could interest you in a private star party? ~ Mysti Jaye
Star Chamber quotes by Mysti Jaye
I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon. ~ Ibn Arabi
Star Chamber quotes by Ibn Arabi
Sometimes you have to forget and forgive. Forgive them for hurting you and forget that they exist! ~ Jeffree Star
Star Chamber quotes by Jeffree Star
Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. ~ Barry White
Star Chamber quotes by Barry White
I think I want to stick to jewelry. Perfumes are for the bigger media stars, and I think that works well for them. I don't think you have to be a big star to have a jewelry line; if something's pretty, I think people will want to buy it. ~ Eva LaRue
Star Chamber quotes by Eva LaRue
When they wish to be top dogs and become the heartbeat of all attention, some appear to be missing grit and find themselves relentlessly out of steam. Since the philosophy of their living seems to restrict itself to 'enjoying wanting' and keeping everything on a wish list, their life, eventually, remains mere wishful thinking. ( "Feeling like a fallen star" ) ~ Erik Pevernagie
Star Chamber quotes by Erik Pevernagie
Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business. ~ George Harrison
Star Chamber quotes by George Harrison
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does. ~ Joe Garagiola
Star Chamber quotes by Joe Garagiola
I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative. ~ Mamie Gummer
Star Chamber quotes by Mamie Gummer
Wooing you? I haven't 'wooed' a chick since before my first record deal. ~ LP Maxa
Star Chamber quotes by LP Maxa
Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true. ~ James Taylor
Star Chamber quotes by James Taylor
It was really a star, a star you were heading toward. You can't fail to reach it. Hearing you speak, I felt that nothing would hold you back, nothing, not even me. . . . You could never see this star as I do. You don't understand: It's like the heart of a heartless flower. ~ Andre Breton
Star Chamber quotes by Andre Breton
I'd rather burn in a better kind of flame. ~ Claudia Gray
Star Chamber quotes by Claudia Gray
Athena, Demeter, Andromeda, Cassiopeia ~ dearest thoughtful Svetlana, your glorious angelic light outshines the entire goddess pantheon of Mount Olympus, , your radiant splendor surpasses the luminous sunsets of a thousand distant worlds, , in all my galactic travels you are the only star whose elegant sway has the power to swing me into orbit, , may our cosmic dance last forever, , may our mutual tidal gravity eternally signal our telepathic presence in each others soulful wandering lives ~ Sean Terrence Best
Star Chamber quotes by Sean Terrence Best
Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat. ~ E. Merrill Root
Star Chamber quotes by E. Merrill Root
Fuck me. I'm a rock star. And all I really wanted was a burrito. ~ Richard Kadrey
Star Chamber quotes by Richard Kadrey
The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president. ~ Michael Reagan
Star Chamber quotes by Michael Reagan
If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be. ~ Eddie Van Halen
Star Chamber quotes by Eddie Van Halen
I am not single and I'm not taken. I'm simply on reserve for one who deserves me. ~ Jeffree Star
Star Chamber quotes by Jeffree Star
I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever. ~ Philippe Perrin
Star Chamber quotes by Philippe Perrin
I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both. ~ Eli Roth
Star Chamber quotes by Eli Roth
I'm a star: SHERIFF BADGE. ~ Nicki Minaj
Star Chamber quotes by Nicki Minaj
Hitch your wagon to a star. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Star Chamber quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then a dark shape would glide across the star-covered sky, everyone would look up and the laughter would stop. It wasn't exactly what you'd call fear, rather a strange sadness
a sadness that had nothing human about it any more, for it lacked both courage and hope. This was how animals waited to die. It was the way fish caught in a net watch the shadow of the fisherman moving back and forth above them. ~ Irene Nemirovsky
Star Chamber quotes by Irene Nemirovsky
I was always shy. Writing was my only outlet. Because I always hid in a room, I spent a lot of time watching people. When I was a small child I could detect hidden body language in others only I could see. People's emotions rub off on me. When I told this to my therapist she said, "Well, you're an empath." I thought, "No way. Like Star Trek?" And she clarified: because I am so socially uncomfortable, I have compassion for others who I recognize are also struggling. People with anxiety are acutely aware. ~ Jenny Lawson
Star Chamber quotes by Jenny Lawson
I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as written by total fanboys and fangirls as a kind of worshipful act, but a lot of times you'll read these stories and it'll be like 'What if Star Trek had an openly gay character on the bridge?' And of course the point is that they don't, and they wouldn't, because they don't have the balls, or they are beholden to their advertisers, or whatever. There's a powerful critique, almost punk-like anger, being expressed there - which I find fascinating and interesting and cool. ~ Lev Grossman
Star Chamber quotes by Lev Grossman
Now he laughs for real, cackling with the wicked innocence of the bright and easily bored. Staff Sergeant David Dime is a twenty-four-year-old college dropout from North Carolina who subscribes to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Maxim, Wired, Harper's, Fortune, and DicE Magazine, all of which he reads in addition to three or four books a week, mostly used textbooks on history and politics that his insanely hot sister sends from Chapel Hill. There are stories that he went to college on a golf scholarship, which he denies. That he was a star quarterback in high school, which he claims not to remember, though one day a football surfaced at FOB Viper, and Dime, caught up in the moment, perhaps, nostalgia triggering some long-dormant muscle memory, uncorked a sixty-yard spiral that sailed over Day's head into the base motor pool. ~ Ben Fountain
Star Chamber quotes by Ben Fountain
The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly independent of sunlight-previously thought to be the font of all Earth's life-has startling ramifications. If life could flourish there, nurtured by a complex chemical process based on geothermal heat, then life could exist under similar conditions on planets far removed from the nurturing light of our parent star, the Sun. ~ Robert Ballard
Star Chamber quotes by Robert Ballard
The smallest stars sometimes bring forth the brightest light. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Star Chamber quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked. ~ William Shatner
Star Chamber quotes by William Shatner
I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot. ~ Neil Gaiman
Star Chamber quotes by Neil Gaiman
I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello. ~ Tod Machover
Star Chamber quotes by Tod Machover
Did you know that a bee dies after he stings you? And that there's a star called Aldebaran? And that around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky ant night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars? ~ Elizabeth Enright
Star Chamber quotes by Elizabeth Enright
Submit to love without thinking,
as the sun rose this morning
recklessly extinguishing
our star-candle minds. ~ Rumi
Star Chamber quotes by Rumi
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things. ~ K.A. Applegate
Star Chamber quotes by K.A. Applegate
She walks to the boy, tilts her head up at him, and smiles. He bends down to kiss her. Then he helps her onto the horse, and she rides away with him to a faraway place, until they can no longer be seen.
These are only rumors, of course, and make little more than a story to tell around the fire. But it is told. And thus they live on. ~ Marie Lu
Star Chamber quotes by Marie Lu
Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.' ~ Wil Wheaton
Star Chamber quotes by Wil Wheaton
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