Million Bearer Cheques

Famous quotes containing the words million, bearer and/or cheques:

“To think to know the country and not know
The hillside on the day the sun lets go
Ten million silver lizards out of snow!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“The earth is mankind’s ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it’s as though one of God’s cheques has bounced.”
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. quoted in: London Sunday Correspondent Magazine (Dec. 24, 1989)