Cheque Books Quotes

#1. - 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

#2. People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more then they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.

Virginia Woolf

#3. How strange it is that the house of these hedonic stalwarts is filled with all the luxuries of life, right from plasma televisions to Swiss bank cheque books. So how will they notice the tonnes of food grains rotting in the northern belt?

Faraaz Kazi

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

Eden Phillpotts

#5. When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500.

Emma Tennant

#6. Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! ...

H.G.Wells

#7. The divine light which you carry within your soul is inherited from God because you are His daughter. Part of the light which makes you so magnificent is the blessing of womanhood.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#8. Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. science can save a man's life, but imagination makes it worth living. Take

Natasha Pulley

#12. Your moral education's over." Jean stared up into the sky as the dockside receded and Bug took them out into the canal's heart. "Now you're going to learn a thing or two about war.

Scott Lynch

#13. The most important job of a leader is to instill the confidence to follow.

Kevin T. Cunningham

#14. Then he had kept himself to himself, "in the way you might stick by a tree, which might be rotten, but at least it's a tree," and heart and understanding had been dismissed, pushed into the background.

Thomas Bernhard

#15. Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Tom Smothers

#16. Very touching," said a voice from the stairway. "Do you want me to imitate a violin?" - Damon

L.J.Smith

#17. One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that simple fact into their business plans. They've come into an industry that's based on idiosyncratic artists and tried to erase every idiosyncratic aspect out of it.

Moby

#18. And I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were not by nature suited for.

Charlotte Rogan

#19. If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

John Lewis Gaddis

#20. The planet is fine. The people are f****d.

George Carlin