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  • The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’

    Cheques  
    The New York Herald Tribune, December 12, 1932.
  • One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article about me which said I was a Hungarian writer but pretending not to be. Bearing in mind I can hardly write a cheque in Hungarian, I was delighted to be included in the pantheon of Hungarian writers.

  • I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

    Talking   Meat   Dresses  
  • Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

    Book   Income   Royalty  
  • Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy, who signed the cheques. The longer the war went on, the stronger parliament became, as the purse on which it sat grew bigger and bigger.

    Kings   Military   War  
  • people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid.

    Movie   Numbers   People  
  • I spent my entire first pay cheque from Cracker, a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.

    Tv Shows   Car   Audi  
    Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.
  • When I ask President Marcos for two million dollars, at worst he wants to know whether he should bring the money straight away or whether I can wait for a cheque in the post.

    Two   Waiting   President  
  • Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

  • I've written books on advertising-cheque books.

  • I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.

    Source: www.zerohedge.com
  • It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.

    Play   Dresses   Exotic  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know'

    Book   Names   Voice  
  • As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

  • Nowadays, [young musicians] are so quick to be like, "OK, fine, I'll take the cheque, or I'll get the stamp from XYZ, and I'm expanding my brand," rather than thinking, "I'm part of this space over here, and in order for it to grow, you can't have it assimilated by this bigger bubble or corporate brand."

    Thinking   Order   Space  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

  • Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

    Art   Hip Hop   Albums  
    "Fine and dandy". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.
  • With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?

    Jamaica   Parent   Pay  
  • When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

    "Rick Santelli: I'm proud to be a firebrand" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2010.
  • The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced

    Promise   Rising   Pay  
  • Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

  • I don't write cheques anymore because I end up signing them "with love, shan rukh"

    Witty   Writing   Ends  
  • I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.

  • The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.

    "War Horse - Steven Spielberg interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

    Mother   School   Nurse  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

  • Once I opened up a fortune cookie and inside was the guy's cheque next to me I said hey buddy I got your cheque he said thanks.

  • Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

    Thinking   Years   Class  
    "My Week: Tony Parsons". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.
  • Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.

    Light   Bridges   People  
    Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford (1997). “Web Security & Commerce”, O'Reilly Media
  • Well, it seems a bit silly, looking there,” said Will. “It’s not like Mortmain’s going to lodge a complaint against the Shadow-hunters through official channels. ‘Very upset Shadowhunters refused to all die when I wanted them to. Demand recompense. Please mail cheque to A. Mortmain, 18 Kensington Road—

    Silly   Upset   Shadow  
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