Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Cockburn

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scott Turow

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

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

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.

Telly Savalas

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Gloria Reuben

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

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.

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.

Stephen Crane

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

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.

Paul Broun

Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a badge of honor.

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.

A badge is a symbol that you have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to BE PREPARED to give service in it.

Larry Coker

It is very important. It's something that we like to have and would like to continue. It is a badge of honor. It's something you like to sell. I'll be surprised if we don't have a first-rounder this year.

Every badge you earn is tied up to your motto.

That's a badge of honor for our coaching staff. From six minutes on, I thought we played well defensively and showed good character on our part.

Rhys Ifans

It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.

It's like trying to stop the ocean. For instance, I stand next to you at a conference, and you have a badge on, and I look you up in Big Yellow. Some of it is totally serendipitous.

William Shakespeare

Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

The badge of the violent is his weapon, spear, sword or rifle. God is the shield of the non-violent.