Budge Quotes

#1. My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

William Penn

#2. Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.

William Shakespeare

#3. I have done it," says my memory. "I cannot have done it," says my pride, refusing to budge. In the end - my memory yields. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, "Fourth Part: Maxims and Interludes

Jodi Picoult

#4. Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

Simon Armitage

#5. All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

Roger Ebert

#6. Oh, Jason, I couldn't get my locker open ... I know, I tried twisting it right, then left, but it wouldn't budge. I guess I'm just not strong enough. Could you help me? Please? Oh, great. Oh, Jason, you're so strong ... Seriously? That was me now? On the other hand , a guy was following me.

Meg Cabot

#7. That's why you call it a budget. You set it and you don't budge.

Jennifer Morrison

#8. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker.

Suzy Kassem

#9. Some wrong eternity that wouldn't budge, like trying to move a wardrobe or a safe, only to feel how light I was.

Deborah Digges

#10. When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can't budge you from believing God, he won't know what to do with you anymore.

Joyce Meyer

#11. The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge
From rascals worse than they.
(from, Coriolanus)

William Shakespeare

#12. So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.

Sarah Dessen

#13. In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers. - Grace Hopper

Tom White

#14. Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

Norman Finkelstein

#15. I will always have dogs in my life, and I absolutely can't be with someone who will challenge that or disagree with that stance - I will not budge on this, ever.

Jenna Morasca

#16. You can twist perception
reality wont budge
you can raise objection
I won2t be judge and jury

Neil Peart

#17. The window doesn't budge, so I push her aside and open it for her.

Colleen Hoover

#18. Budge stomps into the room. "Do you know you have a blob of brown stuff on your nose?" "My life is in the crapper." "I think it left a souvenir on your face.

Jenny B. Jones

#19. Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.

Chuck Berry

#20. Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.

David Walker

#21. Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don't worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.

Bob Hope

#22. Like children, the insane will not budge until their desires have been satisfied.

Paulo Coelho

#23. Bang! Bang! Bang! Sorry Mr. Yipes, sir, she won't budge!'
Put your back into it, man, give it all you've got!'
Bang! Bang! Bang!

Patrick Carman

#24. My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.

Junot Diaz

#25. What exactly did you expect me to do? I told The Boss what you said, but he's not going to budge. Nobody gets dental.

H.D. Smith

#26. But the screws had been there since the sixth day of creation and wouldn't budge. I leaned into

Carolyn Brown

#27. People are making better and better small budge independent films these days.

Mike Birbiglia

#28. I am not God, and I am not judge. Your fate is your own And you need not to budge.

Brian M. Boyce

#29. When one's home has a really excellent computer capable of reaching other computers anywhere in the Galaxy, one scarcely needs to budge, you know.

Isaac Asimov

#30. If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Malcolm Forbes

#31. The only topic you could not get Andre' to budge on was whether or not wrestling was fake or rehearsed in any way. I don't know if in Andre's case it was real, considering all the severe punishment he experienced, or whether he believed in the wrestler's code of never giving away trade secrets.

Cary Elwes

#32. The price of order," I muttered. I tried to run the dog off. It wouldn't budge.
"The cost of chaos," Tom-Tom countered. Thump on his drum. "Not quite the same thing, Croaker.

Glen Cook

#33. If you constantly make it clear that you are unwilling to budge, don't get upset when no one is around who's willing to give you a push.

Mark W. Boyer

#34. In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

James Russell Lowell

#35. The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

William Cowper

#36. Hey, S.T.," Sydney says finally.
I don't budge.
She nudges me with her elbow. "You want to know something?"
I still can't look up. But I nod.
"It's not your fault either." She says this like it's not big deal. Like it's nothing.
But it's everything.

Patricia McCormick

#37. Bridget did not budge, and her face was without expression. She sat, quietly defeated like a chess player who lost a career match in less than four moves.

Emmie White

#38. Zack Holloway stood at the doorway. He willed his legs to move, to carry himself away from the mess of blood and his professor's entrails in front of him. But he just, couldn't, budge.

Kent Reaper

#39. If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood.

Wendy Mass

#40. I guess I'm a hopeless case. No matter how much I try, his existence won't budge out of my mind. The only thing left for me to do is to focus on becoming a career woman, stay single for the rest of my life and go to my grave clutching a photo of his in my hand.

Kaoru Tada

#41. I unzipped my boots but they wouldn't budge. My feet had swollen in the heat. After much tugging, a queue had started to form behind us. Eventually I had no choice but to hold onto the rail with my legs in the air whilst Adam pulled. It wasn't my finest hour.

Robert Bryndza

#42. Jace threw himself against the door. It didn't budge. He cursed. "My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health."
-Jace to Clary, pg.284-

Cassandra Clare

#43. The fire was extinguished, and sniper fire had ceased. Nobody will budge, they were all dead. And the wind swept across jagged rocks, without a song of reconciliation.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#44. Don't think you can ever forget her
don't even try
she's not going to budge
no choice but to grant her space
crown her with sky
for she is one of the many
and she is each of us

Rita Dove

#45. Many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge.

Judith Martin

#46. Her headache wouldn't budge no matter how she ODed on caffeine, but never call her a quitter.

Thea Harrison

#47. I shoved his arm with all my strength, but it wouldn't budge. His waist rippled with sculpted muscles. His chest and shoulders bulged and spoke of great strength. It was one thing to assume he had a big frame, another to have it confirmed with the moon's light.

Kenya Wright

#48. I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

Virginia Woolf

#49. That way nobody feels exploited."
"Wait a minute," says Stan. "Nobody's exploited?"
"I said nobody feels exploited," says Budge. "Different thing.

Margaret Atwood

#50. Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#51. What is a mirror but water that refuses to budge?

Conchitina Cruz

#52. Suggested it would be sometime in the second quarter of that year. At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he had refused to budge, despite Joanna Hoffman's pushback, from his commitment to have the machine finished in early 1987. Now it was clear

Walter Isaacson

#53. Budge and I were sworn enemies from day one. But ever since the day I lifted the lid on the craziness that killed his best friend last fall, Budge has been extremely nice to me. We talk all the time. Like last week he said, "Hey, moron, can you pass the milk?"
That's some good progress.

Jenny B. Jones

#54. You cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair

Rohinton Mistry

#55. Julian moved as if to thrust Emma behind him, but she wouldn't budge.

Cassandra Clare

#56. The tatty bears and the chubby brown-haired doll with big brown freckles and all the others had insisted on coming and lay defiantly in my suitcase refusing to budge and make room.

Shappi Khorsandi

#57. The coach could do a goat-hoof tap dance around Nico's head and the son of Hades wouldn't even budge.

Rick Riordan

#58. One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you', I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

Leonid I. Brezhnev

#59. Hey. Everyone's different," says Derek.
"But some are more different than others," says Budge, and they all laugh.

Margaret Atwood

#60. After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

Bill Budge

#61. I write my programs primarily for myself.

Bill Budge

#62. When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

Bill Budge

#63. A Hymn of Praise to Osiris Un-Nefer, the great god who dwelleth in Abtu, the king of eternity, the lord of everlastingness, who tra-verseth millions of years in his existence.

E.A. Wallis Budge

#64. I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

Bill Budge

#65. You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.

Bill Budge

#66. On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

Bill Budge

#67. It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

Bill Budge

#68. All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

Bill Budge

#69. I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

Bill Budge

#70. Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

Bill Budge

#71. Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

Bill Budge

#72. My name is Anne; spelled with an e at the end." said Anne to Mrs. Thomas.

Budge Wilson

#73. The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

Bill Budge

#74. Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

Bill Budge

#75. Osiris became the type and symbol of resurrection among the Egyptians of all periods, because he was a god who had been originally a mortal and had risen from the dead.

E.A. Wallis Budge

#76. A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Bill Budge

#77. To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

Bill Budge

#78. Robots ... I think that is a hot topic.

Bill Budge

#79. You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.

Bill Budge

#80. Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

Bill Budge

#81. I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

Bill Budge

#82. I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

Bill Budge

#83. I know when something is kind of half-baked.

Bill Budge

#84. The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.

Bill Budge

#85. The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Bill Budge

#86. But the sun rises again when the night is past, and, as it begins a new life with renewed strenght and vigour, it became the type of the new life which the Egyptian hoped to live in the world beyond the grave.

E.A. Wallis Budge

#87. I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

Bill Budge

#88. living soul for ever.

E.A. Wallis Budge

#89. I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

Bill Budge