Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
I could cover the gamut. It's cool though you go in for an hour, read the script, leave and you got a check.
Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.
The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.
I wouldn't say I'm strict. I love to communicate with my kids, and I constantly check in and try to talk things through instead.
I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.
When we're talking about diversity, it's not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.
If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.
Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.
Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.
I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.
We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it.
In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.
I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.
Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to us to paint upon it with our own dreams and imaginations anything we wish, anything we want, and anything we can imagine.
When I got my first check from 'Rack City,' I was like, 'Damn, I can make this much money making beats?'
If you want to see what I'll look like as an old guy, check out any recent photo of me.
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
I try to keep my own career in check, but when I came to America there were very few people wrestling.
I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
A certain check to the sentimentality and commercialism of Christmas is the cluster of bereavements that often arrives towards the end of the year.
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish
If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.
The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.
You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock him down from point-blank range. You'll get him from in close. At long distance, it's questionable.
Not a mark on it. (Joe) Yeah. Wanna check the backseat, where Steele is sitting? I’ll bet there’s a big stain there. (Tee)
There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
Like many men, I had never thought of testicular cancer and was lazy at getting check-ups.
Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England.
I'd really love to check out medieval times. I'm obsessed with that kind of stuff, like on a horseback with a sword.
I'd walked away from 'Come Dancing' and gave 'Blankety Blank' the elbow when I felt the public had had enough. But I didn't follow my instinct to escape from 'Wogan,' and was persuaded to continue for another two years. I kind of regret that.
We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.
If you deal in hair loss, you constantly check the hairline of anyone who walks up to you. It's the first thing I look at.
In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.
Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.
What is it with McDonald's staff who pretend they don't understand you unless you insert the 'Mc' before the item you're ordering? It has to be a McChicken burger...a chicken burger gets blank looks. Well, I'll have a McStraw and jam it into your McEyes, you f**cking McTosser!
I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.
It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.
Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.
The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.
You might be a redneck if you have to check in the bottom of your shoe for change so you can get Grandma a new plug of tobacco.
When it comes to books...They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis.
In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obamas 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.
I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'
Thus, true long-term change is brought about not by destructive passion of the moment but by well-reasoned constructive action. Violent shock of Armageddon that leaves nothing in its wake but a blank slate is not a solution, only a postponement of progress.
When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.
But as I often say, terrorists wont check our party registration before they blow us up.
Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'
And I told her point blank, you've got everything to live for. You've got such talent. You're back singing great, lose the weight. And she went and did it, and look at her now!
Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.
We called ourselves The Blanks because when we say who we are, everyone stares at us with a blank expression. But when we then say 'Ted's band from 'Scrubs' everyone goes, 'Oh yeah, you guys.'
Check the records; there has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you'll find this to be true.
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
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