Checked Quotes

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I was especially fascinated by memory studies. There was one that requested people`s good and bad memories, and then checked them for content. But non- pathological people, people who maintain a happy, healthy brain, couldn`t provide negative memories. They`d say, `But I learned this from the experience;` they`d turn their negative memories into positive ones.

- Natalie Portman

(about his church`s influence on his finally getting clean and sober) When I listened to this guy on the radio, he seemed to understand what was going on with me. So Maylo and I checked this guy out at his church. We sat in the back and had a terrific time. People were warm and friendly. They didn`t seem to mind that I was dressed in leather and that my girlfriend had purple hair. It didn`t matter to them what we looked like or who we were. It only mattered that we were there.

- Willie Aames

(on the first time he heard Hank Garland) I was in Knoxville, and I heard this chorus. I don`t recall the artist now, but I remember then that I thought it was the greatest guitar chorus I`d ever heard, so I checked around and found out it was Hank Garland who played it.

- Chet Atkins

I was doing things that weren`t good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I`ve done for ages.

- Kate Moss

The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he`d like to help, but he`s pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

- Conan O'Brien

When my daughter Carys wants to get married I`ll be as rough with the guy as Catherine`s (wife Catherine Zeta-Jones) dad was when he checked me out. He gave me the once over and then some.

- Michael Douglas

I think we all have a private bucket list. It may not be written down, but I`m constantly checking them off. I just checked off Jack Nicholson. Every day was a holiday because I`ve been praying at the temple of Jack ever since Five Easy Pieces. I had a chance to ride with him on the Warner Brothers plane with Clint (Eastwood). I got to jawing what a fan I was, and as actors will do, he expressed how he liked my work. Then we started talking about how we could make a sequel to (the 1973 Nicholson film) The Last Detail. But that didn`t pan out.

- Morgan Freeman

Right now I`m in shock. I`ve never given anybody steroids before. I`ve been checked out three times already, and I`m clean. I`ve been clean all my life.

- Miguel Tejada

We`ve established a responsive and customer-friendly (claims) process. We have been working with airlines to find an equitable way to address the claims. When a checked bag gets processed, it now touches many hands. It`s difficult to assess responsibility.

- Ann Davis

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it`s not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

- Delia Smith

One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.

- Richard Marx

I`m a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

- Tori Amos

The French Connection (1971) was really made in the editing room. One of the easiest sequences to do was the chase scene. It was relatively easy to do because everything was worked out minutely, carefully planned and checked in advance. Of course, there were some human errors and we did wreck a couple of cars before we were through.

- William Friedkin

Sometimes I`m asked if there`s homophobia in Hollywood. There`s homophobia everywhere on Planet Earth, just like there`s racism and sexism and anti-Semitism, and such stupidity isn`t checked at the gate at the movie studio. But the difference in show business is, if you can make money for people they don`t care what you do. They don`t care if you screw yaks in the middle of the street. They`ll even buy you a yak. They`ll give you their yaks.

- Joel Schumacher

I had to fill out an application and my background was checked thoroughly. They just don`t let anyone distribute these machines. This is highly regulated.

- Mike Foster

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That`s when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.

- Roland Emmerich

I checked off on my defender and got open,

- Michael Card

I checked off of my defender and got open, and Eric was able to get me the ball across midfield, ... I was breaking down the defense, so I thought I'd take my chance.

- Michael Card

I had checked swings at a couple of pitches early. I got myself behind,

- Preston Wilson

I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn`t as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.

- David Strathairn

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it`s an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

- Bill Walsh

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

- Erich Segal

He pretty much had the fire out by the time the fire department got there. When they got there, they checked everything out, just to make sure.

- Steve Baker

We`re not in combat the last time I checked. We`ve got some time.

- Brian Alexander

They sure looked at us funny when we checked out,

- Jim Kramer

It was a little crazy for the first couple of days, ... I couldn`t really talk. I checked in, and in 20 minutes, I was at the dentist. I had to tell the guys, `My tooth is messed up -- I`ll talk to you in a few days.` I got it pulled, and now it`s back to normal.

- Nate Robinson

had checked off many of those things on our own mental list of things we want to do before we die.

- David Weaver

The eye doctor that I was going to since I was 7, for eight years never checked the pressure in my eye. If he had, my eye would have been saved.

- Melissa Baker

I was shaking pretty bad. My `shaking meter` usually tells my guys (crew) how good I run. When I came in, that was the first thing they checked.

- Elliott Sadler

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

- Alicia Townsend

I said I didn`t want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I`ve checked and they`ve all been redecorated. They`re marvelous places to stay and I`ve thought it over and that`s where I`d like to be.

- Andrew Kohut

We have some women right now in the community going over the names. They`ve been going over them for the last week or 10 days. We found a lot of names that we have checked on. They`re doing a tremendous job.

- Andy Ihnatko

They departed from Lincoln, and shortly after departure, a door unlock light illuminated in the cockpit, ... The pilot made a precautionary landing at Sacramento Executive Airport. They landed and checked the door and it checked out OK.

- Annette Lee

Some consumers sign up and have checked their credit report every day since day one.

- Art Leach

Our guys are changed with, in policing the sport, expecting that they have to take the personalities out of it. They can`t look at who`s driving the car, or who the crew chief on the car is. It`s more of, this is a car and all 43 of them are checked the same.

- Art Leo

They need to get them checked out, clean the burners, make sure that they`re burning efficiently, replace filters, make sure that their humidifier is working in proper order, because if you can add humidity, it makes it feel much warmer in the house.

- Asha Bangalore

I checked my files and discovered that I had seen the letter there in 1976. As a historian, it makes you angry that these types of thefts are occurring.

- Aymee Hernandez

Get over here and get checked in.

- Barber B. Conable, Jr.

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.

- Frederick Douglass