Checking Out Me History Key Quotes & Sayings

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities. — Ambrose Bierce

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity. — Robert Mugabe

Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century
the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp
the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America. — Walt Disney

Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs
social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him
until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state. — Chris Matthews

Mark, some answers to your earlier questions:
No, we will not tell our Botany Team to "Go fuck themselves."
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The data transfer rate just isn't enough for the size of music files, even in compressed formats. So your request for "Anything, oh god, ANYTHING but Disco" is denied. Enjoy your boogie fever. — Andy Weir

as bitter and medicinal as the martini was, I set about drinking it as though each sip would make it more appetizing. Which proved to be true. Five — Camille Pagan

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of. — Christian Wiman

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book? — Lee Child

Lady Bracknell: He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. And that was the result of the Indian climate, and marriage, and indigestion, and other things of that kind. — Oscar Wilde

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live. — Gerard Depardieu

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank. — Lydia Davis

Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage. — Albert Camus

I have what it takes to make Chris World Outreach knock the Pope out of business. I can convince my parents to invest in your company until it's in every nation of the earth — S.A. David

One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly - maybe - and it will become a language like Latin that learned people learn. And scholars will write studies of Larry Sanders and Friends and Will & Grace and Ellen and Designing Women and Mary Tyler Moore, and everyone will see that the sitcom is the great American art form. American poetry will perish with the language; the sitcoms, on the other hand, are new to human evolution and therefore will be less perishable. — Nicholson Baker