(1012 quotes found)
“Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?"”
Peter De Vries
“Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.”
Conan O'Brien
“It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain-damage (sic) baby even ten years la”
Phyllis Schlafly
“When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.”
Lou Holtz
“If you're in the contracting business in this country, you're suspect. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey, you're indictable. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey and are Italian, you're convicted.”
Raymond J. Donovan
“I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.”
Peter Steele
“After all my years, there are two things I've never got used to - haggling with a player over his contract and telling a boy he's got to go back.”
Connie Mack
“Strike while your employer has a big contract.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The best thing to break is a contract.”
W. C. Fields