Backers Quotes

#1. Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

St. Jerome

#2. I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

Alexander McQueen

#3. The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't believe a word he says.

Ross Douthat

#4. The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

Amanullah Khan

#5. The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

Mike Leigh

#6. Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason is the fact that, as a terrorist, you could still buy a gun in this country because the NRA lobby is so strong.

Bill Maher

#7. The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

Al Hirschfeld

#8. One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?

Robert Gottlieb

#9. The kind of system Kickstarter uses has been used for hundreds of years. Unlike Medici-style patronage, where the richest people in town give large amounts of money, Kickstarter's system relies on the general public for funding projects, and rewards those backers.

Perry Chen

#10. Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.

Ron Fournier

#11. I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.

Tom Paulin

#12. On Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

Marya Mannes

#13. ... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#14. In New York the Seligmans were major backers of the immensely profitable Pioneer Cattle Company, and Poultney Bigelow's father, the diplomat John Bigelow, was another of those tied into Teschemacher & DeBillier.

David McCullough

#15. The New York Times and Politico report , as Bush continues to flounder on the campaign trail, backers are placing some of the blame on Right To Rise and its inability to sell their candidate.

Chris Hayes

#16. Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

Ralph Peters

#17. While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.

Jessie Daniel Ames

#18. Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

Curtis Mayfield

#19. In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs and their backers got drunk on the overflowing optimism and abundant venture capital and threw a two-year-long party. Capital was cheap, opportunities seemed limitless, and pineapple-infused-vodka martinis were everywhere.

Brad Stone

#20. We've been working with Paul Bettner and the Playful team since the beginning of Oculus. Paul was one of, I think, seven $5,000 Kickstarter backers.

Brendan Iribe

#21. You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.

Ruzwana Bashir

#22. I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?

Julianna Baggott

#23. What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.

William Mountford

#24. Friends ... They come to your house and they know your parents and. ... Sometimes a boy might ask me around to his house, and I might go or I might not, but I could never ask him back. So I never had friends, really. I would have liked ... I had my cat,

Philip Pullman

#25. I've never not finished a masturbatory session or a pizza. Those are the two things I've never left behind.

Adam Carolla

#26. Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Agnes Repplier

#27. I've always been a big fan of Rachel McAdams. I saw her for the first time in 'Mean Girls,' then I saw her in 'The Notebook.' I've always wanted a role like 'The Notebook,' this heartfelt love story. I think Rachel's so incredible.

Cassi Thomson

#28. A stunt kite writes on the blue with its pink tail.

David Mitchell

#29. I can't even sleep in. My body won't let me.

Erin Heatherton

#30. To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#31. Princesa came to rancho one day after her owner no want her. Says too much horse for him, too wild. But he's wrong. She's not wild, she's spirited. 'Wild' means 'I no care about what I do.' But 'spirited' means, 'I love what I do.' Big difference.

Stacey Lee

#32. Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.

Tom Araya

#33. You probably learned from your failures more than from success.

Richard Louv