Checks Quotes · Page 16

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.

— Ryan Tedder

If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to…

— Jimmy Iovine

and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.

— Stephen King

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

— Dave Gahan

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

— Leo Tolstoy

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these…

— Michael J. Fox

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

— Darrell Royal

I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a…

— Leelee Sobieski

If I don't have something to do, I'm not the kind of person who can sit on a beach on holiday. I've…

— Irvine Welsh

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared…

— Rene Daumal

I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned…

— Marvin Minsky

Be very professional because it will get you a lot further. You have to treat people with the same respect whether they're…

— Raven-Symone

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked…

— Derek Jacobi

If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But…

— Gerhard

Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever…

— Joanne Greenberg

Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the…

— Stephen Colbert

In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or…

— Melvin Burgess

One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if…

— Robert Nozick

Yes! I did [grow up on a Christmas Tree farm], so this is a good season for me. I was too young…

— Taylor Swift

Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror. Sure is, Girlfriend." Eric grinned at…

— Charlaine Harris

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it…

— William Shakespeare

It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every…

— Kanye West

When we were doing the "Angel Dust" thing we got information from the National Institute of Drug Abuse because we knew that…

— Gil Scott-Heron

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

— Erle Stanley Gardner

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

— Adam Jacobs

[My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great.

— Kellan Lutz

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

— Harold Evans

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

— Martha Roby

Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.

— Candice Swanepoel

Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in…

— Daryl Davis

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to…

— Andrzej Stasiuk

Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet…

— Janet Frame

When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I…

— Bubba Watson

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

— William Blackstone

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

— Oscar Wilde

I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just…

— Sarah Shahi

Do people who believe in reincarnation ever say, Darn, I'm still writing the year 1612 on my checks!

— Brian Regan

Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is…

— Jonathan Stroud

This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.

— Alan W. Black