A Credit Quotes

#1. The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Bertrand Russell

#2. I assumed it was someone trying to sell me something. They're always calling to sell. Once they said if I sent in a check for $99 I'd be pre-approved for a credit card, and I said, Right, sure, and if I step under a pigeon I'm preapproved for a load of shit

Nicole Krauss

#3. I don't understand. How can a credit card ever be rejected? It's not like it's a kidney!" Colette laughed.

Kevin Kwan

#4. You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.

James Madison

#5. When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

Ann Brashares

#6. In short, if you are using a shovel to dig yourself into a hole, a credit card company will be happy to give you a backhoe.

Jason G. Miller

#7. I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.

Joshua Cohen

#8. I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.

Rachel G. Fox

#9. Merit karma is a credit amount and demerit karma is a debit amount [owe the amount to repay]. One is free to spend his accumulated amount wherever he wants.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.

Michael Moore

#11. But it's a child! You're a man!"
"Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles. "You are a credit to your optician.

Katherine Rundell

#12. A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#13. I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

Lena Horne

#14. Glanced to me. I shrugged. "He always talks like this. You sort of learn to put up with it or turn the volume up on the TV." "As you can see, his disrespect for me, a King of Cats, is also a credit to your house," said Tybalt, not missing a beat.

Seanan McGuire

#15. I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

Hattie McDaniel

#16. Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.

Thomas Lennon

#17. I go to the Caribbean for a month every January with hand baggage only. All you need is a passport and a credit card.

John Niven

#18. [Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

Philip Jones Griffiths

#19. What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

Tom Wilson

#20. If your company matches your 401(k) contribution, then no matter what, contribute to your 401(k) first. You put in a dollar, they put in 50 cents. It's an automatic 50 percent return on your money. You can't pass that up. I'd rather have the 50 percent than pay 32 percent interest on a credit card.

Suze Orman

#21. I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.

Andrea McLean

#22. For a moment it seemed that her impeccably impractical education - in which she'd learned about Middle English and Duchamp's urinal and sub-Saharan droughts but had never been taught how to apply for a credit card or answer an office phone - wasn't useless after all.

Ralph Sassone

#23. The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

Arthur Capper

#24. There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

Confucius

#25. In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.

Matt Taibbi

#26. Next time you're faced with a credit-purchase decision, wait. Don't say no necessarily. Just wait. I challenge you to present your need to the Lord before presenting it to a bank, and see what He does with it.

Charles R. Swindoll

#27. My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was virtually meaningless
a one-dimensional wafer. Everything about me may have been crammed in there, but it was only plastic. Indecipherable except to some machine.

Haruki Murakami

#28. The problem with women was that they were always planning some future that involved you and that you were not aware of, as if you'd signed up for a credit card without knowing it.

Jean Thompson

#29. I had an amazing teacher, who was Burmese, and she was living in Paris at the time, and she is one of very few who doesn't actually receive a credit in the film because she still has family over there.

Michelle Yeoh

#30. I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.

Frank Abagnale

#31. I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.

Barack Obama

#32. Hey, I can shop. You hunt down your purchase, club it to death with a credit card and drag it out of the store, right?

Dana Marie Bell

#33. Things used to be easy. Flip a switch? On goes the light. Press a button? You're calling your parents. Swipe a credit card? You just paid for lunch. Easy, simple, convenient. Nothing is like that anymore

Summer Lane

#34. As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

Sam Ewing

#35. We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.

Philip Hammond

#36. I didn't have any money or ID. I didn't have a credit card. Hell, I didn't have a business card.
What would it say? 'Harry Dresden, Winter Knight, Targets Slain, No Barbecues, Waterslides, or Fireworks Displays.

Jim Butcher

#37. It is as though we have run up a credit-card bill and, having pledged to charge no more, remain befuddled that the balance does not disappear. The effects of that balance, interest accruing daily, are all around us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#38. A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.

Bob Phillips

#39. Want to back out?" Jill let out a long breath. "No. I've always wanted a life of crime. Will you teach me gangster lingo? I want to be a credit to you.

Robert A. Heinlein

#40. I like it when you buy something and pay with a credit card, they put your credit card on the receipt, but only the last four numbers. Aha! I'm really good at guessing twelve numbers. I can't guess 16 numbers, so thanks for the assistance!

Mitch Hedberg

#41. In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

Billie Jean King

#42. Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.

Ryan Holmes

#43. In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.

Clive James

#44. If you are a kid in Beverly Hills, (I am not putting down people who live in Beverly Hills) if that kid knows private school and a credit card ... you can't say the kid is taking life for granted. He is taking the life that was given to him.

Henry Rollins

#45. You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.

Bill Janklow

#46. The marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage beast as man. So holy it is, so touching, so wise and so great a credit is to man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#47. Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.

Jack Dorsey

#48. Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.

Cameron Crowe

#49. Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

Jimmy Cannon

#50. Is there a market for somebody selling a credit card that helps people pay down their balances? I think the question is yes. But it would have to be sold by a bank that's really willing to invest in being a trusted partner with its consumers, because they will make less money on each consumer.

Richard Thaler

#51. When you walk into a store and you want to buy something, you give them cash and they sell it to you. But very often, you walk into our "store" and you want something - a credit card, maybe, or a loan - and very often the answer is "No," even if you're a large corporation.

Jamie Dimon

#52. This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

Yasmine Bleeth

#53. My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

Steny Hoyer

#54. When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.

Jerry Doyle

#55. They couldn't hurt Gansey. Nothing could hurt him; people who said money couldn't buy everything hadn't seen anyone as rich as the Aglionby boys. They were untouchable, immune to life's troubles. Only death couldn't be swiped away by a credit card.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. You need somebody to have the idea, you need somebody who can deal with the studio and the normal things, but it's too different of a credit. That credit is usually given to the executive producer. It's not the producer.

Rick McCallum

#57. Hormones, hormones, lovely little hormones,' Gus sang. 'Give 'em chocolate, give 'em salt, give 'em a credit card and let them sort themselves out. But you never give 'em a gun. Hormones, hormones, lovely little ...

Christiana Miller

#58. I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

Althea Gibson

#59. The white Aylesbury duck is, and deservedly, a universal favourite. Its snowy plumage and comfortable comportment make it a credit to the poultry-yard, while its broad and deep breast, and its ample back, convey the assurance that your satisfaction will not cease at its death.

Isabella Beeton

#60. The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.

Michael Lewis

#61. Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card?

Emma McLaughlin

#62. I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Arthur Miller

#63. Kugel wondered if in these days of the Internet you would even need a Miep Gies anymore, if you could make it through a genocide these days with just a smartphone and a credit card, and he was hopeful that in the event of another Holocaust, he would have some sort of broadband Internet access.

Shalom Auslander

#64. A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

John D. MacDonald

#65. Besides, even if you went all the way, what would you be? Feather-weight champion of the world. Who gives a shit? I doubt you can even get a credit card based on that.
Marsellus Wallace

Quentin Tarantino

#66. With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

Richard Stallman

#67. Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Charles Lyell

#68. I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning.

Eugene Fama

#69. Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the balance or the limit - it's a lot easier to be irresponsible.

David Allen

#70. Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

Jesse Jackson

#71. There could be no debt between them, or rather, what they owed each other continued to grow through the years, not in the form of a balance due but as a credit to both.

Jessica Jiji

#72. Money is the only thing you can use even if you don't have any ... There's always a credit card ...

Suze Orman

#73. A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21 percent or more.

Suze Orman

#74. Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates.

Bill Dedman

#75. Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

William James

#76. A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying what you bought yesterday.

Robert Morrissette

#77. Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things.

Michael Moore

#78. Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

Robert Gottlieb

#79. As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

Charlie Daniels

#80. If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

T. Harv Eker

#81. When you slander someone [talk negatively about people], you earn a debit in your account and that person will earn a credit. Who would do these kinds of business?

Dada Bhagwan

#82. If you're in poverty and all you have is a debit card or a prepaid card or you pay in cash, it does not report to a credit bureau. If it doesn't report to a credit bureau, it cannot create a credit score for yourself.

Suze Orman

#83. I run with a credit card and a cell phone, so when there is not a 7-Eleven around, like some of the country roads out there, I can get him to deliver a pizza to me. And I kind of give them a coordinate, a corner.

Dean Karnazes

#84. A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.

Evan Esar

#85. People are so nice, you know. It's such a credit to Howard Stern - the audience base that he created is such a special thing. It took him a long time to create this family of fans, and I was lucky to be a part of that for a while.

Artie Lange

#86. It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.

Sean Astin

#87. Do you have a credit card or something?" I ask because who wouldn't have a credit card handy during the zombie fucking apocalypse.

Courtney Summers

#88. The importance of the Caja Laboral cannot be overstated. It started as a credit union but grew into something much bigger and more extensive - as have the Netherlands' Rabobank and France's Credit Agricole, both having started as savings co-ops for farmers.

Chris Beales

#89. Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

John Grisham

#90. The whole economy would be much healthier if it would transition to an asset-based economy rather than a credit-based one.

Rick Joyner

#91. If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just say, 'I'm not going to file.' There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it's a credit card company or tax department.

Hill Harper

#92. Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

Christopher Parker

#93. Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

Douglas Rushkoff

#94. I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.

Paloma Faith

#95. I try to use my debit card rather than a credit card, but I will use a credit card for big purchases because I bank with Coutts and I get points.

Sean Pertwee

#96. The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

Dennis Cardoza

#97. The inanity of her remark infuriated him. 'Good grief don't you understand Janet? At this point I'm thoroughly delusional. I'm as mentally ill as it's possible to be. It's incredible that I can communicate with you at all. It's a credit to my ego-strength that I'm not at this point totally autistic.

Philip K. Dick

#98. The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit ... a reputation, character.

John D. Rockefeller

#99. Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

Suze Orman

#100. Uncle Remus, who said to Uncle Ben, You're a credit to your rice. Never got a dinner!

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