You should do what we do, stack chips like *Hebrews*
Don't let the melody intrigue you (uh-uh)
Cause I leave you, I'm only here
For that green paper which lead you — Jadakiss
Short Cheque Quotes
As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal. — Louise Mushikiwabo
The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. — Frank Abagnale
As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting. — Ian McShane
I don't write cheques anymore because I end up signing them "with love, shan rukh" — Shahrukh Khan
Never let your campaigns write cheques that your website can't cash. — Avinash Kaushik
I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don't believe in credit cards. — Margaret Thatcher
As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self. — Eden Phillpotts
This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques. — Robert Genn
I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done. — Martin Parr
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque. — Brendan Francis
Cheque Image Quotes
Chequered Quotes
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. — James Madison
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. — Maggie Smith
To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. — John Milton
. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade,
Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made. — Alexander Pope
For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light. — James Anthony Froude
The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible. — Tom Cruise
The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques. — Martin Bashir
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. — Carol Vorderman
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. — Andre Benjamin
Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it. — Wayne Gretzky
My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course. — Chic Murray
Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques. — Bill Gross
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. — Tilda Swinton
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. — Tony Parsons
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor. — Arjun Rampal
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. — Tibor Fischer
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. — Simon Schama
Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. — Thornton Wilder
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
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?' — Brooklyn Decker
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." — M.I.A.
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. — George Bernard Shaw
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. — Florencio Campomanes
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept!So is it in the music of men's lives.And here have I the daintiness of earTo cheque time broke in a disorder'd string;But for the concord of my state and timeHad not an ear to hear my true time broke.I wasted time, and now does time waste me;For now hath time made me his numbering clock:My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jarTheir watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. — William Shakespeare
They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques. — Colin Firth
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. — Joely Richardson
They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in! — Thayer David
The two most beautiful words in the English language are cheque enclosed — Dorothy Parker
You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world. — Joanna Lumley
I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque. — Julian Assange
Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch. — Salvador Dali
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. — Rodney Dangerfield
As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices. — Babatunde Fashola
I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect people who do it, of course. I just think I'm lucky to still be working at 73. You reach a point in life where you just think, "Show up, do your job, make sure the cheque's on the way," and that's it. I'm not hungry to do anything more, really. — Anthony Hopkins
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. — Steven Spielberg
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. — Glenda Jackson
Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want. — Kevin Spacey
I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive at the door containing three months (along with an extra bonus sunny weekend for being a good customer). — Neil Gaiman
The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’ — Dorothy Parker
Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books. — Bobby Fischer
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