Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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

Stephen Crane

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Douglas Brinkley

Overcoming an illness can be a badge of honor.

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.

Scott Turow

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

Telly Savalas

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For the parade, every veteran will receive a grand marshal badge and be in the parade.

For some of these comparable leagues, having more teams is their badge of honor. But that's not right for us. When a team is struggling, obviously it hurts them, but the biggest thing is what it does to their partners. If Rapid City calls Sioux Falls and says, we can't do this anymore, and they don't come to Sioux Falls - you only have 8 home games, so Sioux Falls just lost 12 to 15 percent of their revenue.

Ron Glass

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