Accrued Quotes

#1. I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

Lorrie Moore

#2. Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

Michael Crichton

#3. however much such loans may temporarily relieve the situation, the Government is still indebted for the amount of the surplus thus accrued, which it must ultimately pay, while its ability to pay is not strengthened, but weakened by a continued deficit.

George Washington

#4. He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.

L.M. Montgomery

#5. So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

Chang-rae Lee

#6. Bob was not yet twenty, after all, while Jesse was thirty-four and in physical decline; each calendar week subtracted from Jesse the powers that Bob accrued.

Ron Hansen

#7. I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

Rachel Maddow

#8. Books, for example, the accrued capital of the human experience, all the wealth of the human mind, books help you think bigger and better, therefore you are bigger and better. You should read, then, all the time, wherever your interests take you. It's too important not to.

David McCullough Jr.

#9. There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

Bill Gates

#10. At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

Shia Labeouf

#11. I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

Harrison Ford

#12. The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

Goldie Hawn

#13. I've got no problems with my age. I rejoice in the knowledge I have accrued and savor the greatest moments, because I know how fast it goes.

Mariska Hargitay

#14. Even his voice had accrued a certain rancour as though the detritus of words long left unsaid inside the cave of his mouth had become rusty and scattered in tiny bits on the top of his tongue whenever he opened his mouth to speak.

Chigozie Obioma

#15. What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression
of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#16. The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

#17. It's strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other.

Josh Radnor

#18. To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.

Hugh Laurie

#19. As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

Philip Zaleski

#20. It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his duty to show.

Anthony Burgess

#21. In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage.

George Saunders

#22. Jack. He'd never give us a phone, or a window. "Ma takes my thumbs and squeezes them. "We are people in a book, and he wont let anybody else read it.

Emma Donoghue

#23. If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything.

Marilyn Manson

#24. Dualism::In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
I am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage.
i am outside of history. its hungrier than i thot.

Ishmael Reed

#25. People who live in pale cities tragically understand how so much poor they are when they come across with the dazzling colors of the country fields!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. But in the end, black can never be white, one plus one must always equal two, and Mara Lynn was a normal little girl.

Jake Vander Ark

#27. Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.

Idries Shah

#28. The goal of 'The Purpose Driven Life' is to help people develop a heart for the world.

Rick Warren

#29. I'm an idiot, she's trouble, and together we're ... deranged!

Jewel E. Ann

#30. Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#31. This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.

Laurel Clark

#32. Obedience, to be perfect, must be voluntary; it must be pure and cheerful. But most of all it must be internal. I would add that it must also be blind and persevering.

Michael Molinos