Top 100 I Owe Quotes
#1. I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.
Jorge Luis Borges
#2. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.
Lauren Bacall
#3. Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
Severo Ochoa
#4. My wife, aside from being amazing in general, was really the catalyst in this, and I really owe a lot of the move to New York to her. She reminded me I've always wanted to do move to New York for theater and said, 'Let's stop talking about it and do it.'
Josh Cooke
#5. You believe me, don't you? You really do. Why do you believe me? Did Anechka do something to you? Now I owe you; and I may look little, but I know how to fight. I learned by fighting with Hargis. I'll kick her ass if she hurts you, Lane; just tell me - what did she do?
Blayne Giano O'hicidhe
Wynter Wilkins
#6. I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author.
Sharon Kay Penman
#8. My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.
Kliff Kingsbury
#9. It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.
Esi Edugyan
#10. I didn't say a word. I just stared at him. I figured I didn't owe him an answer, and I was too proud to even talk. I didn't want to tell him a damn thing about me.
Jaye Murray
#11. If he give me credit for being a plodder he will describe me justly. Anything beyond that will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.
William Carey
#12. I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.
Eliza Doolittle
#13. We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like to stand with them. Also, I'd like to get their views on immigration.
Al Franken
#14. I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.
Claudia Schiffer
#15. I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.
Dick Van Dyke
#16. I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.
Kirk Douglas
#17. Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Plato
#18. I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.
Dinah Shore
#19. Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
Oscar De La Hoya
#20. You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
Merle Travis
#21. The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.
Jeff Garlin
#22. The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.
Karen Russell
#23. I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
Arnold Schoenberg
#25. I've learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth ... I must walk away. I owe it to myself ... I owe it to my future.
Steve Maraboli
#26. I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.
Neil Gaiman
#27. And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
James Broughton
#30. There are only so many times I can say, 'I owe it to my offensive linemen,' or, 'The credit should go to my teammates,' before it becomes run down.
Marshawn Lynch
#31. I could love you, I could kill you. I want this. This is how I make my mark, this is where I plant my flag, this is how I stake my claim, this is how I deny you, this is how I claim you, this is what you owe me, this is what I am taking, this is how I know I'm alive.
Louise Dean
#32. I believe you owe her an apology, the fighter said in his quiet, even tone.
Marissa Meyer
#33. Abraham Lincoln once said, All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother.
Ben Carson
#34. Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
Brennan Manning
#35. A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.
John Le Carre
#36. I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
Dennis Quaid
#37. But Johannes had said, Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David.
Anne Holm
#38. Without the Internet I would have no fans and I wouldn't be in this business. I owe everything to the Internet and my fans.
Justin Bieber
#39. I do I know not what, and fear to find
Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.
Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe.
What is decreed must be; and be this so.
William Shakespeare
#40. I owe you everything." "Uh ... wow." "I owe all of you everything." "But mostly me," Fletcher said.
Derek Landy
#42. Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.'
Robert Blake
#43. I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
Claude Monet
#44. The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few bitter fools, a few disconsolate bastards, who, victims of the rigor of their cynicism, could no longer attach themselves to any vice.
Emil M. Cioran
#45. Oh, thank you, Darrell Sikes, for being wild and nasty and rude and getting me out of The Program and making me Normal Dumb, not Special Dumb. I owe you one, Darrell Sikes.
Esme Raji Codell
#46. Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?
Anthony Burgess
#47. To what do I owe the pleasure?
Magnus
#48. I owe a great deal of thanks to this man who will be gracious enough to say I've helped him with his career and comeback, but it's every bit the opposite.
Shane Black
#50. Jean ... you are a greater friend than I ever could have imagined before I met you; I owe you my life too many times over to count. I would rather be dead myself than lose you. Not just because you're all I have left.
Scott Lynch
#51. What misery laid on Heathcliff could content me, unless I have a hand in it? I'd rather he suffered less, if I might cause his sufferings and he might know that I was the cause. Oh, I owe him so much.
Emily Bronte
#52. I owe my life to blood donors. I'm forever grateful to people who donate.
Niki Taylor
#53. Did you just tell that man you went potty on yourself?"
"You. Shut. Up,"I hissed back furiously and chucked the scrubs at his head. "Hurry up before they find out I didn't wet myself. You seriously owe me.
Maggie Stiefvater
#54. I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.
Larry Holmes
#55. She is not just some girl. She is my girl, and I will not have you talking shit about my girl. She's mine now, and you owe me an explanation, asshole. So either you start talking, or I keep hitting.
Melissa Collins
#56. Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.
Pablo Neruda
#57. I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.
Marco Rubio
#58. I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.
David Cassidy
#59. I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
Julien Green
#60. I was a witness to lots of death ... Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful ... no matter who they are. Not only Israeli people owe me their lives. I guarantee many terrorists, many Palestinian leaders, owe me their lives - or in other words, they owe my Lord their lives.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#62. Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
Joseph Barbera
#63. Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.
Beau Bridges
#64. Some bitter boys reading this might accuse me of "friend-zoning," but I'd like to say that even if a girl has misinterpreted a situation that someone else thinks was obvious, she does not owe her male friends anything.
Anna Kendrick
#66. The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.
Bruce Sutter
#67. I never dreamed I'd owe my life to such an appalling article of clothing,
Ransom Riggs
#68. I want people to be inspired! To remember how hard-fought the battle for the vote was, the debt we owe to women who paved the way for this more egalitarian society we live in, how critical it is to use our vote and to be counted.
Sarah Gavron
#69. I owe it to my children to secure their future.
Amber Frey
#70. Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.
Wolfgang Ketterle
#71. These are things I'd never seen before, they were very disturbing and they were very compelling to try and do something to change the situation for the animals. Farm animals are providing us with the food to stay alive, so I think we really owe them a decent life while they are alive.
Jan Cameron
#72. My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
Jacob Epstein
#73. You don't owe me forever right now, but God, I hope you'll give it to me willingly some day.
Elizabeth Finn
#74. Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention.
Carsten Jensen
#75. I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.
Bruce Hornsby
#76. All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
David Livingstone
#77. I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
Henry Clay
#78. Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.
Martin Luther
#79. I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#80. I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more.
Marty Rubin
#81. Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
Marco Rubio
#82. Mostly though, Rubes, I want to go back in time and beat every single person's ass who's ever made you doubt yourself, because the girl who makes me smile 'til my face hurts even on a shit day needs to see that in herself. I feel like I owe it to you." Aaron
Mariana Zapata
#83. Sometimes you change your mind about a person. Or your feelings for them change, or they change, or, I don't know, you just want to make a different decision. And that's always okay. You don't owe anyone anything.
Emily Henry
#84. I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.
Christy Mathewson
#85. I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
David Rockefeller
#86. I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.
Greg Norman
#87. In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have informed the reporting we've done and I think that Americans owe them a debt of gratitude for taking the risk they do.
Laura Poitras
#88. I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement!
Amber Rose
#89. It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
Jeff Ament
#90. Some debts should never be tallied, he says. I myself, I know what is owed me, but by God I know what I owe.
Hilary Mantel
#91. I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.
Mary J. Blige
#92. I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'
Rami Malek
#93. He relies on no one person. This gives him safety in some ways but makes him vulnerable in others. "I don't trust people either," I say once our food arrives. "I don't want to be sucked into people's drama or feel like I owe anyone." "Do
Bijou Hunter
#94. I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.
Tori Kelly
#95. My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
Queen Elizabeth II
#96. I can't be worrying about what other people think of me. I am my own person, and I have made it this far on my own. This is me - take me or leave me. I don't owe explanations to the rest of the world, only to my family.
Shilpa Shetty
#97. I've always said I never want to wear another uniform. I've always said that I owe it to the fans to retire as a Packer. I feel like I can still play, but if I can't play for my organization, then I can't play for anyone else.
Donald Driver
#98. The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.
Hank Aaron
#99. She says I owe her."
"And you always pay your debts? What kind of craziness is that?"
"Some people would say it's honorable."
"Some people are stupid.
Gena Showalter
#100. I was like an old leafless tree until we met green buds burst and blossom
now that I have you I'll never forget what I owe you
Ikkyu
