Karat Quotes

#1. Well then y'all fourteen karat gold crazy! I ain't payin' that for two damn tomatoes! Take it off then!

Tiana Laveen

#2. Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. New York, of course, is to be in endless surreal situations where a fifty-thousand dollar, gun-metal Mercedez pulls up into a puddle of blood, and out steps a twenty-five karat blonde transvestite with a two dollar wristwatch.

Tom Waits

#4. What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

Stanley Kubrick

#5. I could have gotten away with it, I would have given her a 24-karat gold necklace that read Property of Quinn Sullivan

Penny Reid

#6. Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

Hedda Hopper

#7. My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Kitty Kelley

#8. This was beyond a joke. This had moved beyond foolishness, slipped over the line into genuine 24 karat Jesus-Christ-I-fucked-up-bigtime territory.

Neil Gaiman

#9. I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.

Frank Sinatra

#10. Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

Billy Sunday

#11. The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#12. To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

William Pickens

#13. It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

Amy Purdy

#14. This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood.

Brinda Karat

#15. I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

Francesca Annis

#16. I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.

Paulina Porizkova