Quotes About Purse Strings

#1. Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

John Motson

#2. World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

Denis Healey

#3. It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#4. Evelyn suspected there was never true equality in marriage. Someone always had stronger feelings, or held the purse strings, or was more persuasive, powerful, and pushy.

Victoria Helen Stone

#5. When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.

Jerry Saltz

#6. We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.

Kevin McCarthy

#7. Remember, whoever holds the purse strings for the wedding has the control. Don't accept a cent from anyone else if possible. Then you and him will be the only ones calling the shots. All the decisionswill be yours and the rest of them will just have to go along with it.

Melissa Hill

#8. The purse strings tie us to our kind.

Walter Bagehot

#9. In all likelihood, I was going to be in charge of his entire business empire soon. I would hold the purse strings, and Jo was worried that my main vice - vindictiveness - would mean she was going to lose her cushy lifestyle. For once in her miserable life, she was right.

L.J. Shen

#10. Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon ... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon.
What did he die of?
Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded!

Oscar Wilde

#11. he would be left alone to scan the arts section of the paper, and read about other people who were doing the kinds of things he didn't even have the expansiveness, the arrogance of imagination to dream of,

Hanya Yanagihara

#12. B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

Chris Matthews

#13. Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. I would prefer as a viewer to watch the mistakes. I am my own blooper reel, as it happens.

Craig Ferguson

#15. Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra.

Jon Stewart

#16. Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

Charles De Gaulle

#17. On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#18. Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

Sheena Easton

#19. I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.

Abby Sunderland

#20. Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

Vincent Bugliosi