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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too? -- Bill Veeck
Dr. Banner, your work is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous, green rage monster. -- Joss Whedon
When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key. -- Carla Bley
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing. -- Dave Van Ronk
As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids. -- Dennis Farina
So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner. -- Cliff Richard
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. -- Mark Twain
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation. -- Franz von Papen
I wake up every morning singing The Star-Spangled Banner. -- Terry McAuliffe
I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' -- Terry McAuliffe
I play to lift a city, and raise a banner. -- Prince Fielder
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other. -- Kingsley Amis
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. -- Erich Segal
I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free. -- John Cullum
I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free. -- John Cullum
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave/O're the land of the free and the home of the brave. -- Francis Scott Key
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is 'The Star Spangled Banner.' -- Ronald Kessler
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. -- John Steinbeck
We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism. -- Federica Montseny
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. -- Camille Paglia
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' -- Ernestine Rose
We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road. -- Satish Kumar
I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned. -- Harry S. Truman
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. -- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. -- Karl Marx
Nobody's truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasn't by accident that, in the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could attain it. -- J. Matthew Nespoli
I'm not in Captain America because it takes place in the '40s. Both he and Bruce Banner are relationships that evolve during this - two more rock stars that I got to get on stage, ready to play ball. -- Clark Gregg
The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish. -- Douglas Adams
Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing! -- Abraham Coles
I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling. -- Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz
Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying. -- Jim DeMint
The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner. -- Elliott Abrams
Buying a banner, you have no control whether ten different people see your ad once, or one person sees it ten times. -- Gil Penchina
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we will always hold high. -- Li Keqiang
There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together. -- Michael Steele
If you're Burberry or Gucci, you're not going to run a banner ad. To get brand ad dollars to move to digital, you need to create a beautiful experience. -- Mike McCue
I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner. -- Kate Winslet
If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads. -- Jonah Peretti
I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence. -- John B. Hood
I had just turned 28 and sold my first book, a travel guide for vegetarians, but I'd tell people about the day job that I didn't care about instead - I placed banner advertisements on the web for a search engine company. -- James Bernard Frost
You can't cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you wrap yourself in the banner of free speech in order to protest state punishment of views you like and share. -- Glenn Greenwald
Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been declared dead more often than the lowly display banner. -- John Battelle
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god. -- Tim Wise
As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief. -- Ban Ki-moon
If you have a business website, make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage... then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the Internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising. -- Lynda Resnick
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.' -- Kirk Hammett
I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things. -- Roseanne Barr
I'm a star, no spangled banner -- Drake
Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion. -- Tennessee Williams
I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory. -- Fernando Pessoa
It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart. -- Douglas Reed
Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud. -- Langston Hughes
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner. -- Fernando Pessoa
We're rhyming; we're carrying the banner representing hardcore hip-hop to the death. -- Immortal Technique
Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up. -- George Iles
Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip. -- John Wooden
"My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." Under the banner "Mission Accomplished." -- George W. Bush
You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place. -- Brian May
What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'? -- Margaret Thatcher
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice. -- Baron de Montesquieu
They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save. -- Francis Marion Crawford
No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, Onward toward mediocrity. -- Martin de Maat
The best ways of marketing were email and banner advertising, but I needed images... and they were very expensive. -- Jon Oringer
When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made. -- Louise Rennison
Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth. -- Dan Shechtman
The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle. -- Shawn Achor
Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way to merit that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties. -- Lord Chesterfield
Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary. -- R. C. Sproul, Jr.
We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances. -- Yakov Sverdlov
The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches. -- Joseph Brodsky
The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space. -- Max Tundra
Their own souls rose and cried Alarum when they heard the sudden wail Of stricken freedom and along the gale Saw her eternal banner quivering wide. -- John Le Gay Brereton
According to the recent polls, Bush has a slight lead over John Kerry. So today, Bush hung a banner over the White House saying, 'Mission Accomplished.' -- David Letterman
Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it. -- Phil Crosby
For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner. -- Maajid Nawaz
God is raising up a new standard, a new banner if you will, that's going to radically change the expression, the understanding of Christianity in our generation... -- Paul Cain
Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours. Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it. -- Joan of Arc
Leo had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo! -- Rick Riordan
Workers â?? men and women â?? of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory! -- Leon Trotsky
By God, we shall not stop, God willing, except at the doorsteps of the White House, and to raise the banner of monotheism on their so-called Statue of Liberty. -- Osama bin Laden
There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, a banner bearer who will announce my arrival to the world. -- Kevin Outlaw
No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust. -- Francois Hollande
Give humanity hope and it will dare and suffer joyfully, not counting the cost - hope with laughter on her banner and on her face the fresh beauty of morning. -- John Elof Boodin
Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move. -- Emma Goldman
We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now. -- William J. Clinton
Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner. -- Tim Gordon
The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job. -- John Hickenlooper
Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena. -- Charles Colson
V'lane: Are you busy tomorrow MacKayla ? Barrons: She's working on old texts with me. V'lane: Ah. Old texts. A banner day at the bookstore. Barrons: We're translating Kama Sutra...with interactive aids. -- Karen Marie Moning
I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual. -- Alexander Herzen
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one. -- Nicholson Baker
I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence. -- John B. Hood
In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner. -- Frank Bruni
Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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