#credit

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#could #credit #credit card #father #get

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#demolish #discovered #had #hypothesis #must

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance. ↗

— Tim Roth

#attached #by the time #close #come #credits

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#appreciate #bad #bad time #book #books

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#cannot #cars #credit #hunger #longer

We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the changes were because of injuries. But that's where I give a lot of credit to the group in terms of being able to maintain things. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#because #being #changes #credit #develop

Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it. ↗

— Cheech Marin

#back #being #border #credit #crossed

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#charity #micro-credit #poor #poverty #social-business

Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have... to impress people that they don't like!" Nothing to do w/ "books" -- Just like the quote! ↗

— Will Smith

#credit-and-debt #good-advice #money

It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#believe #brought #cases #common #commonly