(224 quotes found)
“A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.”
Conan O'Brien
“My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential”
Herbert Hoover
“I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.”
Christy Mathewson
“To myself alone do I owe my fame.”
Pierre Corneille
“I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement”
Oscar Wilde
“Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.”
Benjamin Franklin
“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.”
William Penn
“I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.”
Ken Dodd
“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her...I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet
“Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle”
Lord Byron