Famous quotes containing the word bet:
“I didnt realize you were an art collector. I thought you just collected corpses. Ill bet you paid plenty for this little piece of sculpture. Shes worth every dollar of it, take it from me. She puts her heart into her work, in fact, her whole body.”
—Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)
“I see that every man that went in had his pockets bulging, or something muffled up under his coatand I see it warnt no perfumery either, not by a long sight. I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel, and rotten cabbages, and such things; and if I know the signs of a dead cat being around, and I bet I do, there was sixty-four of them went in. I shoved in there for a minute, but it was too various for me, I couldnt stand it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and Id bet I wouldnt lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”
—Berkeley Breathed (b. 1957)