Quotes About Cheques

#1. This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

Robert Genn

#2. Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy, who signed the cheques. The longer the war went on, the stronger parliament became, as the purse on which it sat grew bigger and bigger.

Simon Schama

#3. They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in!

Thayer David

#4. As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

Ian McShane

#5. Anyone wishing to buy the film rights for a rather large sum can contact my publisher and anyone wishing to put me in the top 100 wealthiest people in the UK, please send cheques or Postal Orders to me care of my publisher.

James Berryman

#6. It may be all right, you may have talked about it and agreed it was all right, but that's not how sex works, is it? It's where the unsayable is king; it's where madness and surprise rule; it's where the cheques you write for ecstasy are drawn on the bank of despair.

Julian Barnes

#7. Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

Kevin Spacey

#8. I don't write cheques anymore because I end up signing them "with love, shan rukh"

Shahrukh Khan

#9. The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

Tom Cruise

#10. We are quite a way off before people travel around the world without cash in their pockets. The growth of plastic and electronic transactions have tended to impact traveller's cheques rather than cash.

Lloyd Dorfman

#11. Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

Bobby Fischer

#12. I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

Martin Parr

#13. They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques.

Colin Firth

#14. Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.

Bill Gross

#15. The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

Martin Bashir

#16. When I started the business, only banks operated at airports, only banks issued travellers' cheques, only banks issued international payments, only banks serviced their own branch networks.

Lloyd Dorfman

#17. He sagged to his knees. He ached all over. It wasn't just that his brain was writing cheques that his body couldn't cash. It had gone beyond that. Now his feet were borrowing money that his legs hadn't got, and his back muscles were looking for loose change under the sofa cushions.

Terry Pratchett

#18. She couldn't understand a vocation. Some people can't; at best, work's about status and pay cheques for them, it hasn't got value in itself.

Robert Galbraith

#19. Never let your campaigns write cheques that your website can't cash.

Avinash Kaushik

#20. I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.

Kate Winslet

#21. The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

David Plowright

#22. As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

Babatunde Fashola

#23. We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

Orville Redenbacher

#24. I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.

Rajneesh

#25. Nine lives won't last you very long, will they?' says Ove. The cat licks its paw and looks as if it's not the sort of cat that likes to keep count.

Fredrik Backman

#26. Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things

Dee Hock

#27. You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

Aiden Wilson Tozer