Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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.

Telly Savalas

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

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.

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.

Stephen Crane

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Douglas Brinkley

Overcoming an illness can be a badge of honor.

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.

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.

J. K. Rowling

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

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.

In a film called 'Senna,' the clue is in the title, and we have a Brazilian badge on our sleeve as we were making it. We were making it from Senna's point of view, with Senna narrating it.

You wear the badge to let people know that you are prepared and willing to be called on because you are a Girl Scout.

Ron Glass

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Erin Hunter

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