Third Installment Quotes

#1. An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

Quentin Crisp

#2. Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

Bobby Hull

#3. Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments everyday.

Zig Ziglar

#4. When the business interests ... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

Carroll Quigley

#5. Final installment of Things More Fun Than Reading the Sarah Palin Memoir: Driving into a tree, microwaving your head, and getting stabbed in the eye with a carrot.

David Letterman

#6. Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.

John H. Vandenberg

#7. Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

Jerzy Kosinski

#8. There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#9. A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

Dick Gregory

#11. I usually dislike second books in series. The only second installment I ever loved was 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and I think that was wonderful because it evolved the characters while not seeming like a bridge.

Pierce Brown

#12. Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

Arnold Bennett

#13. Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.

Ann Landers

#14. I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

Kate Winslet

#15. He was like an addict before a fix. Book freaks are like that, and not just old guys. Look at kids lining up for the latest installment of their favorite books. Stories, they're addictive." Gamache

Louise Penny

#16. The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

Chris Hedges

#17. He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

Seneca The Younger

#18. I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.

Garth Nix

#19. And the sorrow sent her spiraling back into sickness.

Kenya Wright

#20. I could hardly wait for following chapters, which arrived in dribs and drabs, and I began to feel for all the world like the young T.B. Macaulay walking from London to meet the Cambridge coach bearing the next installment of Waverley novels.

Vernon Sproxton

#21. By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.

Rose Schneiderman

#22. No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Marcelene Cox

#23. The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived ... Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own.

Terry Teachout

#24. At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' and it's sweeter than we'd ever imagined.

Annalee Newitz

#25. The popular culture says ... Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

Jerzy Kosinski

#26. As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.

Mary McCarthy

#27. No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.

Vance Havner

#28. I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

Everett Dirksen

#29. In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot of my boots kicking cartridges out of the way.

David Carradine

#30. The Spirit of the Lord says that God is placing a crown of manifestation on the heads of His faithful, diligent, chosen saints - a crown of great favor and authority with God and men - a new and greater installment of the fruits and blessings of the Spirit. Another measure, and another, and another.

Todd Bentley

#31. In 1981, and 1983, and every year thereafter, right around budget time, the Pentagon released its newest installment of Soviet Military Power to the public,

Rachel Maddow

#32. Eve of Darkness is, well, sigh, really damned good. I can't wait for the next installment.

Lauren Dane

#33. It's deceiving but true that we rarely see any immediate consequences for neglecting a single installment of time in any arena of life. But if neglect becomes your pattern, you will eventually bump up against our third principle: 3. Neglect has a cumulative effect. You

Andy Stanley

#34. I hope we will never again see such a depression. But I am troubled by the huge consumer installment debt which hangs over the people of the nation, including our own people.

Gordon B. Hinckley