Checker Quotes & Sayings

The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips — Chubby Checker

Neither the cat nor I missed you while you were gone. It's worse than that. We danced the visitor-gone dance, flinging our feet (and paws) with particular glee. You remember the dance - the one you do after shutting the door behind a difficult visitor (like a family member)? You hold your breath for 120 seconds then deadbolt the door, race to the bed, leap on to it and jump, twirl, bell-kick and prance, singing all the while, she's go-onnne, she's gooo-oonne. — Melissa Checker

information that my husband had archived - things I had done, he had done, words I had said, he had said, verbatim sentences he could remember spoken by himself or others or me, things we'd seen or done or places we'd been, verbatim places, verbatim people, exactly precisely factually factual things he could remember that I could not or could not quite, completely, remember. So my husband was this constant fact-checker of my life and the idea of him making things up, intentionally or not, had occurred to me, that maybe many of the things he had told me had happened, had, perhaps, never happened - Elyria, when did it occur — Catherine Lacey

How would my life change if I actually thought of each person I came into contact with as Christ - the person driving painfully slow in front of me, the checker at the grocery store who seems more interested in chatting than ringing up my items, the member of my own family with whom I can't seem to have a conversation and not get annoyed? — Francis Chan

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years. — Steve Rushin

Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread. — Nathaniel Cotton

For every man there was an inferior woman, for every writer there was a checker," said Nora Ephron. "they were the artists and we were the drones. — Lynn Povich

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy. — Chubby Checker

I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different. — Chubby Checker

You wave your hands up to the sky, kick your legs to the side. Are you ready, let's do the Freddie. — Chubby Checker

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me! — Chubby Checker

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes. — Chubby Checker

He pulled the door open and saw a Checker cab sitting out there, an ambassador from the land of sanity. — Stephen King

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker. — Shane Smith

If Checker Charley was out to make chumps out of men, he could damn well fix his own connections. Paul looks after his own circuits; let Charley do the same. Those who live by electronics, die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis." He gathered up the bills from the table. "Good night. — Kurt Vonnegut

Aleister Crowley once stated that the most important grimoire, or book of magical instruction, that anyone could ever conceivably own would be an etymological dictionary, and in my opinion he was exactly right. I keep it right here by my desk, and just 10 minutes ago it confirmed for me that I had the spelling of "proprioception" right all along, even though my spell-checker had raised a crinkly red eyebrow. — Alan Moore

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man! — Daniel Defoe

He watched her screen, her spell-checker halting at such spurious entries as "fuckwitism" and "Caliguliberal". — Cara McKenna

We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It was the last time you were going to have Lake Tung Ting shrimp in that kinda shady Chinese restaurant and you had no idea. If you had known, perhaps you would have stepped behind the counter and shaken everyone's hand, pulled out the disposable camera and issued posing instructions. But you had no idea. There are unheralded tipping points, a certain number of times that we will unlock the front door of an apartment. At some point you were closer to the last time than you were to the first time, and you didn't even know it. You didn't know that each time you passed the threshold you were saying goodbye. — Colson Whitehead

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can. — Chubby Checker

Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin ... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves ... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony. — Thomas Jefferson

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business. — Chubby Checker

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life. — William Cowper

Every limbo boy and girl, all around the limbo world. Gonna do the limbo rock, all around the limbo clock. — Chubby Checker

Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way. — Chubby Checker

I want my flowers while I'm alive. — Chubby Checker

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops. — Chubby Checker

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers. — Michael Shermer

When the baby is older take the diapers off, my girl is gonna do the Slop. — Chubby Checker

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick. — Chubby Checker

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK. — Chubby Checker

You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like. — Leo Rosten

Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're making billions doing my dances. When they do that little thing they do with their hands that's The Fly and The Pony. — Chubby Checker

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy. — Chubby Checker

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house. — Anna Chlumsky

Strong sun, that bleach
The curtains of my room, can you not render
Colourless this dress I wear? -
This violent plaid
Of purple angers and red shames; the yellow stripe
Of thin but valid treacheries; the flashy green of kind deeds done
Through indolence, high judgments given in haste;
The recurring checker of the serious breach of taste? — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light. — Chubby Checker

I was a young guy who started as a fact checker," he said, "but I always knew - and was told - that I would get a shot at reporting, writing, and editing. For a young, ambitious, talented woman, that elevator was out of order. — Lynn Povich

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude. — Thomas De Quincey

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business. — Baz Luhrmann

I'm proud of our country that we elected Barack Obama. I mean, it says something about us nationally. You know, it's kind of like crowning your checker when you get to the end of your checker board. Here's another thing that says America's special: Barack Obama, president of the United States. — Tom Coburn

...the race isn't over until the checker flies. — Garth Stein

I was a coat-checker at Orso, and all these wonderful actors were coming in, and it was exciting to me, so I started going to classes, and my excuse was, 'I'll be a better songwriter if I can understand how to play a character.' Well, that couldn't be farther from the truth. — Sophie B. Hawkins

I like searching for the collision detection boundaries, finding invincibility glitches, and purposefully doing other stuff that normal players aren't supposed to do. In order words, I'm a bug checker. — Hidetaka Suehiro

Well, did you know he's the best checker-player in this town? Why, down at the Landing when we were coming up, Atticus Finch could beat everybody on both sides of the river." "Miss Maudie, Jem and me beat him all the time." "It's about time you found out it's because he lets you. Did you know he can play a Jew's Harp? — Harper Lee

It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch. — Mary Roach

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life. — Wayne Dyer

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old. — Chubby Checker

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that. — Chubby Checker

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist. — Laurieann Gibson

Willa Jean, pleased to have her grandmother on her side, set a red checker on top of a black checker. "Your turn," she said to Ramona as if she were being generous. — Beverly Cleary

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world ... Eminem. Rap's a black thing. — Chubby Checker

Hooka Tooka, my soda cracker, does your momma chaw tobacca? — Chubby Checker

Cowgirl is a spirit, a special brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes no excuses. Cowgirls take stands. They speak up. They defend the things they hold dear. A cowgirl might be a rancher, or a barrel racer, or a bull rider, or an actress. But she's just as likely to be a checker at the local Winn Dixie, a full-time mother, a banker, an attorney, or an astronaut. — Dale Evans

On another she made chitchat with the cashier at the Coop. That was an absolute first. The checker offered a forced, availing smile in return. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck. — Chubby Checker

Elvis, you're still King. — Chubby Checker

I was a coat checker, a dishwasher, a waitress, and those were some of the happiest times of my life because I still got to do my writing. You're lucky when you can work and then do your art. — Sophie B. Hawkins

Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27. — Chubby Checker

I've got a girl that I love so, hey Loddy Loddy Lo. — Chubby Checker

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy. — Chubby Checker