#credit

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#fbi #own #people #polygraph #rejects

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. ↗

— Merle Travis

#credit #deserves #miner #more #mother

Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#credit #first #having #idea #made

[On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#epigrams #humor #oscar-wilde #tribute #wit

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that. ↗

— Lesley-Anne Down

#breath #credits #deathbed #even #get

President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#american #american people #appreciation #credit #dutiful

Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk. ↗

— James Lipton

#better #bobby #class #credit #everybody

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made? ↗

— Walter Murch

#beg #borrow #cards #credit #credit cards

It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#been #both #coin #confidence #credit

The advantage of online banking is that you can pay bills superfast, and your account is automatically credited or debited for each deposit and payment, making it easier to stay on track. ↗

— Suze Orman

#advantage #automatically #banking #bills #credited