Top 32 Retainer Quotes
#1. As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.
Abraham Lincoln
#2. For a summer of drug abuse on the island of Capri, she packed a wardrobe of black Morticia gowns, dyed her hair green, and paraded through the village streets with a crystal ball, followed by a retainer in gold body paint.
Scot D. Ryersson
#3. If a retainer will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too is but a single day.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#4. His fabrications seemed to be the framework of a forgotten but imposing plan; some condition of life of which he was the sole surviving retainer."
--from "La Somnambule" (1937) by Djuna Barnes
Shaun Whiteside
#5. I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J Mascis
#6. That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
Gore Vidal
#7. A place is more than the sum of its physical parts; it's a repository for memories, a record and retainer of all that has happened within its boundaries.
Kate Morton
#8. Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. At last he met the chief butler, the sight of which splendid retainer always finished him. Extinguished by this great creature, he sneaked to his dressing-room, and there remained shut up until he rode out to dinner, with Mrs Merdle, in her own handsome chariot. At dinner, he was envied
Charles Dickens
#10. I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.
Jeff Gannon
#11. When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.
Andy Warhol
#12. First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher.
Judah P. Benjamin
#13. whereas Allie still had to wear a retainer at night to keep her bottom teeth from collecting like dice in a Yahztee cup.
Ruthie Knox
#14. Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.
Henry Ward Beecher
#15. Silly cop, I don't need your help; I have a werewolf on retainer.
Kevin Hearne
#16. I had braces; I was lucky, 'cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on me 'cause I'm paranoid about my teeth. It was run over by a car, so half of it's missing, but it still works.
Kreayshawn
#17. Debatable how long the seduction took. The smarter the girl, the swifter these things go. Physical forwardness as intellectual high-wire act: the pleasure not of pleasure but of performance and revenge against the retainer, the flute, the stack of expectations.
Lauren Groff
#18. I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#19. In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
Joachim Du Bellay
#20. It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
Jean De La Bruyere
#21. First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher.
Judah P. Benjamin
#22. I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.
Jeff Gannon
#23. At last he met the chief butler, the sight of which splendid retainer always finished him. Extinguished by this great creature, he sneaked to his dressing-room, and there remained shut up until he rode out to dinner, with Mrs Merdle, in her own handsome chariot. At dinner, he was envied
Charles Dickens
#24. Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.
Henry David Thoreau
#26. Only positive thoughts can inspire you to positive actions.
Debasish Mridha
#27. A place is more than the sum of its physical parts; it's a repository for memories, a record and retainer of all that has happened within its boundaries.
Kate Morton
#28. That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
Gore Vidal
#29. I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J Mascis
#30. His fabrications seemed to be the framework of a forgotten but imposing plan; some condition of life of which he was the sole surviving retainer."
--from "La Somnambule" (1937) by Djuna Barnes
Shaun Whiteside
#31. For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn't had the slightest clue what 'my own good' truly was
Claudia Gray
#32. Canada is a long way to go to get Cuban Cigars" Captain Hank Bracker
Hank Bracker
#33. Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.
David Mitchell
#34. If a retainer will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too is but a single day.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#35. My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.
Nicolas Maduro
#36. When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.
Andy Warhol
#38. In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
Joachim Du Bellay
#39. I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.
Yani Tseng
#40. I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#41. Rincewind rather enjoyed times like this. They convinced him that he wasn't mad because, if he was mad, that left no word at all to describe some of the people he met.
Terry Pratchett
#42. Debatable how long the seduction took. The smarter the girl, the swifter these things go. Physical forwardness as intellectual high-wire act: the pleasure not of pleasure but of performance and revenge against the retainer, the flute, the stack of expectations.
Lauren Groff
#43. I had braces; I was lucky, 'cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on me 'cause I'm paranoid about my teeth. It was run over by a car, so half of it's missing, but it still works.
Kreayshawn
#44. Silly cop, I don't need your help; I have a werewolf on retainer.
Kevin Hearne
#45. Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.
Henry Ward Beecher
#47. If you want to be, if you want to see, let us read a lot, then we will have a shot!
Debasish Mridha
#48. whereas Allie still had to wear a retainer at night to keep her bottom teeth from collecting like dice in a Yahztee cup.
Ruthie Knox
#49. As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.
Abraham Lincoln
#50. The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#51. For a summer of drug abuse on the island of Capri, she packed a wardrobe of black Morticia gowns, dyed her hair green, and paraded through the village streets with a crystal ball, followed by a retainer in gold body paint.
Scot D. Ryersson
