Cheques Quotes - Page 2

• Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy, who signed the cheques. The longer the war went on, the stronger parliament became, as the purse on which it sat grew bigger and bigger.

  Simon Schama

  Kings, Military, War

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• I've written books on advertising-cheque books.

  Alan Sugar

  Book, Advertising, Written

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• I'd rather be an adviser. I don't wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I've accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don't wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people's hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Thinking, Hands

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• The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced

  Jeremy Paxman

  Promise, Rising, Pay

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• Well, it seems a bit silly, looking there,” said Will. “It’s not like Mortmain’s going to lodge a complaint against the Shadow-hunters through official channels. ‘Very upset Shadowhunters refused to all die when I wanted them to. Demand recompense. Please mail cheque to A. Mortmain, 18 Kensington Road—

  Cassandra Clare

  Silly, Upset, Shadow

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• Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Dad, Son, Firsts

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• Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Prayer, People, Political

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• I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.

  Julian Assange

  Thinking, Dollars, Bills

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Once I opened up a fortune cookie and inside was the guy's cheque next to me I said hey buddy I got your cheque he said thanks.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Guy, Fortune Cookie, Cookies

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• Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

  Salvador Dali

  Clerks, Watches, Painting

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• Never let your campaigns write cheques that your website can't cash.

  Avinash Kaushik

  Motivational, Writing, Marketing

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• Nowadays, [young musicians] are so quick to be like, "OK, fine, I'll take the cheque, or I'll get the stamp from XYZ, and I'm expanding my brand," rather than thinking, "I'm part of this space over here, and in order for it to grow, you can't have it assimilated by this bigger bubble or corporate brand."

  M.I.A.

  Thinking, Order, Space

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Vanity, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories”, p.101, Penguin

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• people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid.

  Glenda Jackson

  Movie, Numbers, People

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• Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

  Max Beerbohm

  Money, Men, Light

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.70, New York Review of Books

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• This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

  Robert Genn

  Thinking, Names, Signatures

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• I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.

  Arjun Rampal

  Thought Provoking, Looks, Actors

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• I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive at the door containing three months (along with an extra bonus sunny weekend for being a good customer).

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Weekend, Doors

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• Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

  Kevin Spacey

  Beverly Hills, Why Not, Want

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• I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Mean, Thinking, Aggravation

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• Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

  Bobby Fischer

  Book, Income, Royalty

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• One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article about me which said I was a Hungarian writer but pretending not to be. Bearing in mind I can hardly write a cheque in Hungarian, I was delighted to be included in the pantheon of Hungarian writers.

  Tibor Fischer

  Book, Writing, Achievement

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• The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

  Frank Abagnale

  Giving, Identity, Information

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• The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’

  Dorothy Parker

  The New York Herald Tribune, December 12, 1932.

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• I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

  Martin Parr

  Writing, Phones, Up Early

  "My space". Interview with Edward Mostyn, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2008.

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