Register Quotes

#1. If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

David Ogilvy

#2. She felt woozy, as if she'd been running around on a full stomach in the August heat. A big man in a white undershirt stood behind the cash register. His shoulders were hairy and crimson with sunburn, and there was a line of zinc painted on his nose. A white plastic tag on his shirt said PETE.

Joe Hill

#3. The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

George Jackson

#4. There's something I call telegenekicity, and it's not about just models. Of course, I can reference Iman, Tatiana Patitz, Kelly Emberg, Bonnie Berman - I go all the way back - but I think that you develop an eye to register iconic images - like Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor.

Michael Flutie

#5. And if so, I could fill my time with the new entry on my rather exclusive social register, whoever had created the Howling Vegetable of N.W. 4th Street, and the fact that this sounded rather like a Sherlock Holmes title made it no less urgent.

Jeff Lindsay

#6. The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.

Nat King Cole

#7. The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

Ferid Murad

#8. Do not allow your enemy to define you. Because if you allow yourself to be defined negatively, nothing positive you say about yourself will register.

David F. D'Alessandro

#9. It is difficult to threaten someone who doesn't have the necessary attention span to register fear.

Rob Thurman

#10. It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right.

Meg Cabot

#11. When attention is focused, minor aches and pains have no chance to register in consciousness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#12. How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)

Jack Kerouac

#13. History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

#14. I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.

Joss Whedon

#15. Her eyes register the darkness beyond the windows, then travel back to the neglected groceries. Something in her sags. And for a moment, I see her. Not the watts-too-bright, smile-till-it-hurts her, but the real one. The mother who lost her little boy.

Victoria Schwab

#16. The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is whiteblacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.

Eldridge Cleaver

#17. I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Claire Danes

#18. Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#19. I need to confront my loss, not run away from it. I wanted to wade in with my eyes open and all my senses alert. I wanted to register everything, from the giant waves of sorrow to the inkiest ripples of remorse. I didn't want to miss any of it.

Alex George

#20. Retail chains charge tens of thousands of dollars to place a particular candy bar in the racks near the register. Very few people, after all, head into

Steve Almond

#21. Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#22. By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

Russel Honore

#23. The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Marya Hornbacher

#24. I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

Gary Cherone

#25. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register?

Darin Strauss

#26. The timbre of his voice went into that low register that made my insides curl in on themselves
it was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs.

Cora Carmack

#27. I often laugh and say I should go down to the Department of the Interior and register as an endangered species. I'm a gay man over 60 and I'm alive.

David Mixner

#28. Eric came to Macy's? Did he burst into flames the moment he passed the first cash register?

MaryJanice Davidson

#29. I moved to the counter. A note was propped on the register. Welcome home, Ms. Lane. Arrogant, overconfident jackass.

Karen Marie Moning

#30. It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

#31. Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time.

Junius Williams

#32. It's the first time I've ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.

Suzanne Collins

#33. If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#34. 'Venti caramel macchiato, please,' he said. 'Hold the snobbery.'
The barista laughed and hit buttons on his register. 'You sure? We're having a sale on social mobility. The longer your coffee order takes to place, the more you have to pay.'
'Perfect. Reverse consumerism.'

S.W. Vaughn

#35. My roommates and I looked at each other and screamed, "BEANS!" in unison, like we hadn't eaten in weeks.We were holding hands, jumping up and down and celebrating, while the guy at the register tried to understand how we functioned on a normal basis.

Grace Helbig

#36. Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.

R.D. Ronald

#37. Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Walter Benjamin

#38. For we are not summoned according to the paristi register And besides there is no man so old as to make it sinful to expect another day. Now every day is another step in life.

Seneca.

#39. People shouldn't notice what you're wearing before they
notice you. You want people to register you first. 'Oh, what a nice jacket' should be an afterthought if you're doing it right.

Michael Kors

#40. My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Jimmy Carter

#41. Some drill and bore
The solid earth, and from the strata there
Extract a register, by which we learn,
That he who made it, and reveal'd its date
To Moses, was mistaken in its age.

William Cowper

#42. What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

William S. Paley

#43. The words fire from my mouth like bullets, ricocheting off the walls before I can even register what I'm saying.

Tabitha Suzuma

#44. We were supposed to be having a serious conversation about where we were headed - or indeed why we were headed nowhere - but it was proving impossible. Banter was the only register we seemed capable of and without it we'd lost all means of communication.

Catherine Sanderson

#45. Until now, I've barely had the chance to register his size. I knew he was big, I even just watched him stroking it. But like this, from behind when he's taking it slow, making me feel every inch, I really know it.

Kerry Heavens

#46. Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

Zora Neale Hurston

#47. History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#48. With voice acting it just matters what your voice can do. There are some things that I won't get over other people because my register isn't as deep as other people. So if someone wants a deep, dark, brooding villain voice then they are probably not going to pick me.

Ashly Burch

#49. Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.

Deepak Chopra

#50. I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No.

Jeanette Winterson

#51. I've got things I have to do in fiction to sort of register my existence, before I kick the bucket, but it will never be my living and I know it. Plus it never moved fast enough for me and lacked cut and thrust. I need to be in the real show.

William Monahan

#52. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

Lucian Freud

#53. To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

Adam Mansbach

#54. And what did the great British historian Edward Gibbon have to say about the human record so far? He said, "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." The same can be said about this morning's issue of The New York Times.

Kurt Vonnegut

#55. To change our eating habits, we must learn to eat mindfully, being more aware of chewing and tasting what we eat so that the brain can register the incoming nutrients.

John M. Poothullil

#56. When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

Ambrose Bierce

#57. Never eat in a restaurant that has a bowling trophy on the cash register.

Warren Miller

#58. The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#59. God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.

Thomas Hale

#60. If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.

Rebecca Solnit

#61. If I were a writer of books, I would compile a register, with a comment, of the various deaths of men: he who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live. - Michel de Montaigne, "That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die

Paul Kalanithi

#62. Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

Steve Lacy

#63. I don't express a lot of things that I feel; I kind of register things.

Kim Cattrall

#64. If your marketing is not delivering consumers to the cash register with their wallets in their hands to buy your product, don't do it.

Sergio Zyman

#65. Madonna is a living, breathing cash register.

Boy George

#66. It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.

Barry Levinson

#67. It does not hit you until later. The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive. Frostbite does not hurt until it starts to thaw. First it is numb. Then a shock of pain rips through the body. And then, every winter after, it aches.

Marya Hornbacher

#68. What is odious but ... people ... who toast their feet on the register ...

Marsilio Ficino

#69. Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.

Robert Wise

#70. Ringing the cash register is not the name of the game. It's only the scorekeeper, and it's not what motivates me. I'm motivated in my business by the compliments I receive about our people, our service, and the quality of our food.

S. Truett Cathy

#71. Weightlessness makes astronauts lose taste and smell in space. In the absence of gravity, molecules cannot be volatile, so few of them get into our noses deeply enough to register as odors. This is a problem for nutritionists designing space food.

Diane Ackerman

#72. "Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

Charles Dickens

#73. A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma ... It's about integrity

Richard Paul Evans

#74. I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 - even 1968! Consider building a vast cube of stone merely to register the effects of violence - marked and dated as an indictment.

Peter Greenaway

#75. New forms of the artistic register are one of the infallible signs of an authentic moment.

Christopher Hitchens

#76. As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

Norman Lock

#77. That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

Gary Oldman

#78. A low, silver sports car roared past at high speed, missing them by inches. Nancy glimpsed the man at the wheel long enough to register his dark mustache and the pipe clenched in his teeth. "What a menace," George said, shaking her head in disgust. Nancy

Carolyn Keene

#79. My eyelids flickered, and Ash made a noise that was almost a growl. "Dammit, Meghan," he snarled, grabbing both my arms. "I am not going to lose you this close to home. Get up!" He rose, pulling me to my feet and, before I could even register what was going on, pressed his lips to mine.
-Ash

Julie Kagawa

#80. You know, darling, if caffeine ever makes it to the illegals list, you're going to have to register as an addict." "They try to make coffee an illegal, I'll kill them all, and it won't be an issue.

J.D. Robb

#81. Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

Jesse Jackson

#82. Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.

Rumi

#83. A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

Tommy Lee

#84. Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.

Penelope Spheeris

#85. Night is when we are closer to ourselves, closer to essential ideas and feelings that do not register so much during daylight hours.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#86. Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading Confused.

Andy Rooney

#87. From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

David Suzuki

#88. I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

Jello Biafra

#89. Well, for example, happy people are more likely to register joy than unhappy people. So if you take two people who have experienced a day of, say, fifty percent good things and fifty percent bad things, an unhappy person would remember more of the bad.

Katherine Center

#90. To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

James Toback

#91. Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.

Charles Saatchi

#92. The lone attendant wasn't paying any attention to the register; he just stood, mouth half open, holding the remote like maybe if he could change the channel he could change the future. The Moon was gone.

John Joseph Adams

#93. It's really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I've done.

Dina Merrill

#94. A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

Mahatma Gandhi

#95. I put my energy into writing songs. I have to carve out a living somehow doing this, and licensing is one way. It's hard to register what's "too much" for other people. I don't watch TV, so it's tough for me to gauge. I just take it as it comes, and don't put a whole lot of thought into it.

Iron & Wine

#96. Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Emmylou Harris

#97. She was feeling so much all at once and yet she wanted so much more. She wanted Jack - naked - now. "I'm going to leave you, Rose." She heard the words, but it took a moment for the meaning to register. Leaving? Was He leaving?

Mary J. Williams

#98. History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

Washington Irving

#99. If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

Stephen King

#100. History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon