Checks Quotes - Page 38

• I think for many of us - speaking for just a pocket of the country - we trusted Obama. So when you leave your baby with your mom to watch, you don't run home and check the nanny cam. But now we've left the baby with Gary Busey, so we're going to be a lot more on it.

  John Mulaney

  Mom, Country, Running

  "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Why Controversial Jokes Are Worth Doing If They're Funny". Interview with TIME, time.com. February 21, 2017.

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• My view is that our minds are incredibly powerful animals that are, during life, kept somewhat in check by the load of our bodies. Once that load is gone (or so some ancient texts teach us) the mind is like a horse off the tether. So the habits we get into here might have something to do with what happens to us afterwards. An exciting but harrowing idea, given the everyday state of my mind. But also hopeful, since that's something a person can work with.

  George Saunders

  Horse, Powerful, Animal

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.

  Steve Harvey

  Writing, Wife, Missing

  Source: www.finalcall.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think, with the administration they do Constitutionally-mandated things most of the time, but they don't - they fulfill the letter of their obligation to checks and balances, but not the intent.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Balance, Letters

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

  Kenny Chesney

  Silence, Sound, Stadiums

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.

  Frank Abagnale

  Mistake, Order, Littles

  11 Copy quote

• I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.

  Michele Bachmann

  Levels, Way, I've Learned

  Michele Bachmann (2011). “Core of Conviction: My Story”, p.50, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

  Charles Barkley

  People, Want, Pay

  "Charles Barkley critical of Jordan". www.espn.com. March 2, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

  Gary Bauer

  America, People, Mailboxes

  12 Copy quote

• I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.

  Halle Berry

  Exercise, Work Out, Mouths

  4 Copy quote

• When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

  Mary J. Blige

  Want, Spirals, Check Yourself

  "There's something about Mary". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2008.

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Bridges, Looks, Gone

  "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

  Kobe Bryant

  People, Trying, Don't Like Me

  6 Copy quote

• Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.

  Jeb Bush

  Immigration, Voters, Gateways

  "What We Know About Romney and Immigration After the Republican Convention" by Frank Sharry, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2012.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.

  Kirk Cameron

  Hate, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Law, Trying

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.190, Vintage

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Country, Children, Commitment

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.

  Andy Cohen

  Being Yourself, Passion, Wrecks

  52 Copy quote

• Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.

  Gail Collins

  Crazy, Gun, Thinking

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Movie, Hate, People

  9 Copy quote

• I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, People, Leader

  4 Copy quote

• I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a cheque in the right place and shutting up about it.

  Russell Crowe

  Inspiration, Humor, Sick

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Pay, Enough, Made

  8 Copy quote

• A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

  Joe Perry

  Guy, Together, Band

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.

  Lucy Powell

  Quality, Prevention, Demand

  "Labour created the NHS and has safeguarded its future" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source