Big Checks Quotes

#1. There was a time when black and navy blue suits were pretty much everything you saw. That has completely changed. People are wearing big checks, checks with browns and blues and shades of gray, and the scale is very large, and some of them are very bold with heavy contrasts.

Patrick Grant

#2. Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.

Paul Kagame

#3. In my times of greatest despair and anguish I look up towards the heavens and find my constant relief. For I know in my heart and soul that it is God that I receive my help from.

Timothy Pina

#4. Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?

Maureen Dowd

#5. Anyone literate can take an implement in hand and make marks on a flat surface. Being a writer, however, seems to be a socially acknowledged role, and one that carries some sort of weight or impressive significance - we hear a capital W on Writer.

Margaret Atwood

#6. The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

Carson Daly

#7. It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life.

Brad Pitt

#9. If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're trying to curry favor, or live up to the expectations of some sort of genre or structure.

David Bezmozgis

#10. All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.

Robert Browning

#11. But I didn't know where I wanted to go. Or what I wanted to do when I got there. I had dreams, but they were vague things with no real substance. I wanted to be famous, or really rich, or wildly successful, but that was as far as the dream went. My whole life was a fill-in-the-blank.

Nick Hornby

#12. The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

Pope Pius X

#13. She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.

Shannon A. Thompson

#14. Some of the big movies, you get checks for a long, long time.

Leland Orser

#15. What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Aesop

#16. A father gives his child nothing better than a good education

Anonymous

#17. I want to hold you and shelter you, but I don't want to dim your light, angel. Do you understand the difference?

Lauren Dane

#18. It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

H. Rider Haggard

#19. There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

George Meyer

#20. Obama cool, but he ain't sending me no free checks

Big K.R.I.T.

#21. Because the reward is worth the risk.

Susan Mallery