Early Payment Quotes & Sayings

the only time you get lucky is when you're planning your suicide, it's definitely time to go. — Jasmine Warga

I did so many bad things to your god; if he or she exists; would have been pregnant now. — M.F. Moonzajer

I think trusting anyone makes us all a little crazy. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.
It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also.
We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:
Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all. — Kahlil Gibran

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase. — Vladimir Nabokov

Annella frantically searched through the sea of people, afraid she was about to drown. Then relief washed over her when she met her father's gaze and made her way back to him. But as she stepped closer, all pleasure left her. A crimson liquid pooled over the fingers that he held to his throat.
"Anne," he choked out....
A piercing scream traveled through the streets of Venice. — Victoria Roberts

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget. — Horace

When he makes you a promise, he is assuring you that however the world changes, his word will not change. Thus, he is creating the future inside the present. Even more: he is creating the present inside the present. He is establishing on stationary point amid the infinite flux of events. — Stephen Mitchell

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor. — Trevor Nunn

Your friend Mr. Tulip would perhaps like part of your payment to be the harpsichord?" said the chair.
"It's not a
ing harpsichord, it's a
ing virginal," growled Mr. Tulip. "One
ing string to a note instead of two! So called because it was an instrument for
ing young ladies!"
"My word, was it?" said one of the chairs. "I thought it was just of sort of early piano! — Terry Pratchett

We were children of the 1950s and John Kennedy's young stalwarts of the early 1960s. He told the world that Americans would "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship" in the defense of freedom. We were the down payment on that costly contract, but the man who signed it was not there when we fulfilled his promise. John Kennedy waited for us on a hill in Arlington National Cemetery, and in time we came by the thousands to fill those slopes with out white marble markers and to ask on the murmur of the wind if that was truely the future he had envisioned for us. — Joseph L. Galloway

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all. — Fay Wray

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring. — Christopher McQuarrie

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives. — Rupert Murdoch

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem. — Arthur Koestler

If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning ... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish. — Elizabeth Berg

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

Damn your principles! Stick to your party. — Benjamin Disraeli

She had wanted her son to stand for what he believed and to be respectful. And he had died for believing his friends had a right to play their music loud, to be American teenagers. — Ta-Nehisi Coates