Cheque Book Quotes

#1. All remember about my mother," Nibs told them, "is that she often said to my father, 'Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of my own!' I don't know what a cheque-book is, but I should just love to give my mother one.

J.M. Barrie

#2. I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don't believe in credit cards.

Margaret Thatcher

#3. We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America.

Chester Bennington

#4. All my life I've lived a beautiful lie. The governor's son with the bright future set for him. The middle child. The one who no one knew how bad he was suffering until it made the nightly news.

Magan Vernon

#5. Still, I strongly resisted the idea of offering up my past in a book, a past that left me feeling exposed, even slightly ashamed.

Barack Obama

#6. Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

Joanne Harris

#7. The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.

Bryant McGill

#8. - Amy said that would be an imprudent expense; but as soon as he had got a good price for a book. Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!

George Gissing

#9. Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.

Paul Feig

#10. Last time you said that, you meant for me to stick my hand down your pants." "Yeah, that's what I mean now.

Bella Love

#11. It's difficult to tell how much time is really passing when you're hungry and bored.

Liesl Shurtliff

#12. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

Joseph Campbell

#13. The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

Britt Ekland

#16. As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? Self.

Eden Phillpotts

#17. I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

David Friedman