Credit Quotes - Page 14

• Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

  Rick Baker

  Running, People, Company

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• Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

  Roger Ebert

  Epic, Iliad, Should

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Vintage, Seductive, Balance

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES - Complete Collection: 25 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated): The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Tarzan the Terrible and many more”, p.5, e-artnow

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• Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Honesty, Two, Impossible

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• You know what I hate about people who criticize you? They - they criticize what you say but they never give you credit for how loud you say it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hate, People, Giving

  "Stephen Colbert Enters the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2007.

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• Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

  Isaac Watts

  Believe, Authority, Thousand

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.417

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• It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Men, Hypocrisy, Soul

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.85

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• There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.

  Tennessee Williams

  Doors, Cards, World

  Tennessee Williams (1961). “Period of Adjustment”, p.8, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Power, Law, Justice

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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• When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

  Anton Chekhov

  Each Day, World, Cash

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, August 18, 1893.

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• It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.

  Orson Scott Card

  Sneak In, Way, Hollow

  Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.119, Macmillan

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• It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

  William Winwood Reade

  Art, War, Simple

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.38

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• Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Expansion, World, Wealth

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 197-198), 1989.

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• We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high levels of entrepreneurship. And we have the best universities in the world. ... We also have impeccable credit. What we don't have is a political system that can take the simple measures to deal with our short-term deficit.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Simple, Political, World

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• So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.145

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• Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.

  George Ade

  Money, Men, Risk

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually be repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Eye, Names, Debt

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.37, Crown Business

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• For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end up as (or in). Their acts appall, enchant, disgust or astound me. Their ends fill me with retributive glee, or break my heart. I can only take credit (if I can even take credit for that) in reporting the scenario. This is not a disclaimer. Just a fact.

  Tanith Lee

  Real, Writing, Heart

  Innsmouth Free Press Interview, www.innsmouthfreepress.com.

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• Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Believe, Fate, Men

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins (2014). “Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

  John Collison

  Stripes, Banking, Way

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• I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.

  Bill Keller

  Thinking, Media, Pioneers

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

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• The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

  Benjamin Graham

  Desire, Three, Volume

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part III, Chapter XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit Control, p. 154, 1937.

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• I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.

  John Brunner

  New York, Home, Heaven

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.112, Macmillan

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

  Mordecai Richler

  Mom, Pain, Dad

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• Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Men, Letters, Truth Is

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.149

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