Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're journalists and we just pack it away. You don't get a special badge of courage for losing your home.

Kathleen Sebelius

But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing.

She refused to give me her badge number, and she hung up.

J. K. Rowling

We've been improving it. The badge now read Bighead Boy.

Suzy Menkes

There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don't think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition.

Lots of people just buy product right off the shelf and stick their badge on it. At the end of the day, they end up with a toaster that looks like a Russian tractor.

Chris Jericho

I've actually been in more Elimination Chamber matches than any other human being on the planet. It really has been a badge of honor for me.

Gloria Reuben

There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official.

Walter Kirn

Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.

Michael Trucco

I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge.

I think, in a lot of places, the solar panels are a badge of honor; they're trendy. If you go to Hawaii or Japan, people even install fake solar panels because it's cool and it's popular. And so I think solar panels have gotten a lot more attractive. They're sleek, black, they look good on a roof.

From a professional and personal standpoint, Friday will never be the same for me. It was a badge of honor to be on Hal's call list.

Telly Savalas

I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.

Scott Turow

I think the first serious novel that interested me was The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.

When they practice, our new kids are practicing with some of the best kids in the state of Ohio. Those people get on them and encourage them. It's a badge of honor to run in the front with a group like that.

Stephen Crane

He wishes that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

Andrew Motion

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Alexander Cockburn

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

Douglas Brinkley

Overcoming an illness can be a badge of honor.

We now have one, single global design and engineering budget. We've put an end to badge engineering.

Judging by the vanity plates in California - 'Saving More,' 'Low Mileage' - hybrid is a badge of honor that people want to wear. Hydrogen is the path to the future. But, on the way to hydrogen, hybrid is an alternative.

Paul Di Filippo

The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the diss became the standard.

That was a pretty easy decision to make. The campaign hat and the new badge would create a distinctive uniform and save money.

This badge is not a reward for something you have done once or for an examination you have passed.

They sure put that fence up in a hurry, ... I have to wear a badge to go from place to place here.

Erin Hunter

Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger.

He's an obstinate opportunist. He's become well known for this throughout his career here. He wears it like a badge of honor.

Every single employee that wears a badge here, that badge become a little soiled on that day.

Ron Glass

Nowadays, we actually wear that as a badge of honor.

That officer in particular is one of the nicest around. He's extremely upset. His badge number is visible and easily identifiable.

You tell people, 'I'm an orange badge at Microsoft,' and pretty much everybody in the tech industry knows exactly what that means. It's practically a subculture in Seattle.

Every badge you earn is tied up to your motto.