Piker Quotes

#1. If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government.

Sam Levenson

#2. I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

Derek Jarman

#3. It feels like it feels like it's been five minutes, but it hasn't been five minutes yet.

Heather Hall

#4. My father was a minister for 50 years (with) Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always said, "Amen. God is love." I thought God is love was one word. Like "Godislove." And it took me a long time to learn what that really meant.

Denzel Washington

#5. We've got to listen to other people's voices, respect them, but keep in mind, and I believe in terms of the things that I've read in my lifetime, the Lord is not picking us. But because of how we respect human rights, because that we are a good force in the world, he wants America to be strong.

John Kasich

#6. It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature - that is the true carnival!

Isak Dinesen

#7. Say it!" she hollered, moving over to me. She shoved me hard against the chest. "Say it! Say you don't want to be with me!

Brittainy C. Cherry

#8. I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

Marjane Satrapi

#9. Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

Darrell Hammond

#10. So you have a choice. You can leave quietly or I can call the police after I wang you with my stapler.

Nicole Hamlett

#11. If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

Brian Williams

#12. The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

Molly Haskell

#13. I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.

Candice S. Miller