Cheque Books Quotes & Sayings

When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500. — Emma Tennant

Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.' — John Boyega

How strange it is that the house of these hedonic stalwarts is filled with all the luxuries of life, right from plasma televisions to Swiss bank cheque books. So how will they notice the tonnes of food grains rotting in the northern belt? — Faraaz Kazi

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game. — Rafael Palmeiro

I have no other destiny than the destiny of humanity. — Debasish Mridha

No one becomes a laughingstock who laughs at himself. — Seneca.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. — Jacques Derrida

I will, I do, Amen, Here Here, Let's
eat, drink and be merry. Marriage is
the public spectacle of private
parts:
cheque-books and genitals, house-wares, fainthearts,
all doubts becalmed by kissing
aunt, a priest's
safe homily, those tinkling glasses
tightening those ties that truly bind
us together forever, dressed to the nines.

Darling, I reckon maybe thirty years,
given our ages and expectancies.
Barring the tragic or untimely, say,
ten thousand mornings, ten thousand evenings,
please God, ten thousand moistened nights like this,
when, mindless of these vows, our opposites,
nonetheless, attract. Thus, love's subtactraction:
the timeless from the ordinary times --
nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine. — Thomas Lynch

She's not ... She's not datin' the skeleton, is she? How would that be even possible, let alone ... nice? He's got no skin, or lips, or ... or nothin'. — Derek Landy

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? Self. — Eden Phillpotts

- Amy said that would be an imprudent expense; but as soon as he had got a good price for a book. Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books! — George Gissing

People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more then they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime. — Virginia Woolf

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. — G. M. Trevelyan

If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep. — Seth Grahame-Smith