Complimentary Quotes

#1. 'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

Roseanne Barr

#2. Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.

Tom Skerritt

#3. The one thing I will say for digital, and you won't hear me say that many complimentary things about it, is that it's cheap. It pretty much enables anybody to record as long as you can deal with the sound.

Tom Scholz

#4. There was possibly something complimentary in the way Granny Weatherwax resolutely refused to consider other people's problems. It implied that, in her considerable opinion, they were quite capable of sorting them out by themselves.

Terry Pratchett

#5. A personal (Brand) is more than just a creative name, cute logo or a complimentary card; it's a promise of value, it's a distinctive voice, it' s a core message, it's passion driven by purpose, it's a positive impact that creates an impression

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#6. What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.

Ken Ham

#7. Labs, too, can become machines. In science, it is more often a pejorative description than a complimentary one: an efficient, thrumming, technically accomplished laboratory is like a robot orchestra that produces perfectly pitched tunes but no music.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#8. All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

Sergei Bongart

#9. A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Eric Idle

#10. So is that what people call sweet nothings? Because somehow, I expected it to be a little more . . . complimentary.

Susan Ee

#11. It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.

Gary Carr

#12. I partnered you with Jim all those years ago because you were complimentary kinds of crazy. You kept each other in check. I need you to not crawl back inside your own skull and watch the world with binoculars from deep cover.

Warren Ellis

#13. The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.

David Crane

#14. It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

Zig Ziglar

#15. I'm not the head of Scotland Yard," said Mrs. Oliver, retreating from dangerous ground. "I'm a private individual -"
"Oh, you're not that," said Rhoda, confusedly complimentary.

Agatha Christie

#16. Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#17. She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.

Margaret Mitchell

#18. I think girls in general need to be more complimentary ... It just makes people feel better.

Nikki Glaser

#19. The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales ... not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth.

Steve Maraboli

#20. Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

Quintilian

#21. I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I.

Pawan Mishra

#22. All the men I know add that "hands that prepared it" line. They must know it's right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

Vicki Covington

#23. Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.

Gary Numan

#24. She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#25. It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.

Naveen Jain

#26. Writer? A complimentary term to conceal one's insanities.

Coco J. Ginger

#27. There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.

Eric Liu

#28. I think a lot of things that people think are complimentary are a little bit condescending, but then we just have to keep doing what we're doing, and being in the band is the important bit.

Lauren Mayberry

#29. When men are fighting for their lives they are not often disposed to be complimentary to those who are trying to kill them.

Winston S. Churchill

#30. At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order ...

Augustus

#31. People often say very, very nice, complimentary things. But I think it's better if you don't take that too much to heart.

Robin Trower

#32. Our complimentary dinner that evening was really quite nice. I have always found that free meals taste just a little bit better, and after two days of the rapacious greed of the Key West economy, this was succulent indeed. And

Jeff Lindsay

#33. Satan called - he's changed the sheets, fluffed the pillows and laid out the complimentary chocolate. Hell is ready for John Edwards.

Christopher Titus

#34. The worst form of equality is to try to make equal things that are their reciprocal opposite complimentary.

Nityananda Das

#35. They called him well preserved, but they used the term in a way that was uneasy rather than complimentary.

Stephen King

#36. I knew I was a little different from most demons but nothing says freak of nature like a one-eyed gypsy saying I had a rainbow glow. It just didn't sound complimentary.

Mary Abshire

#37. Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known.

Jon Katz

#38. Failure so often hates the very sight of success. Speaking with successful men, I have noticed they speak in complimentary terms of other men who are succeeding. Their attitude is not one of envy, but of willingness to learn from others.

Napoleon Hill

#39. 'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Dev Hynes

#40. A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.

Robertson Davies

#41. In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

Brett Somers

#42. If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others.

Catherine Ponder

#43. People ask, "What do you think about being called Puff Mommy?" Puff's a very successful young man, so I don't have a problem if that's what they wanna call me. If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.

Missy Elliot

#44. Which was complimentary but unhelpful, because the librarians were tough.

Robertson Davies

#45. I had a dream about you last night... in it, I tried to sell a squirrel a deposit box to store his nuts in. He stole my cashews in the complimentary snack basket.

Marshall Ramsay

#46. A lot of the players are very complimentary about each other; they embrace at the end of matches because the level of the tennis has been so good. I think that's something that tennis has got to be proud of.

Andy Murray

#47. Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

Libba Bray

#48. We've known each other [in Motorpsycho ] since 1985 or '86, are really different as personalities, and yet have actually never disagreed to any degree. We are really complimentary as musicians and songwriters too, and come from two total opposites in our approaches.

Bent Saether

#49. I think any band we played with would be a weird match. We're on our own, a little out there, but it's a good thing. I think we're complimentary to each other.

Jon Crosby

#50. I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity ... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

Elvin Jones

#51. People tell me, "Well, you understand where the voters are, Jeff, where the votes are, or what people are thinking," and they'll sort of - in a complimentary way. And it's a bit of an acknowledgement that we've been blind to some of these issues for too long.

Jeff Sessions

#52. It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

C.S. Lewis

#53. If you learn to develop an abundant mentality you will not be envious of others, you will celebrate their successes, you share in their joys and pains; don't see life as a competition but a complimentary.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#54. I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer is supposed to be prolific. Since that's how people perceive me, they have to say I'm prolific. But I don't find that either complimentary or accurate.

Samuel R. Delany

#55. The Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary.

Howard Schultz

#56. I think she's a witch," Marco says. "And I mean that in the most complimentary manner.

Erin Morgenstern

#57. Dimitri shook his head and walked off, muttering something in Russian that didn't sound complimentary.

Richelle Mead

#58. To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.

Helen Rowland

#59. Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

Dennis Cooper