What was the value, really, of an alibi between lovers, friends, or family members? Idea for greeting card: ‘Will You Be My Alibi?
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The defendant was setting up an alibi for himself.
BOB SLOMSKI Home Alone was a movie, not an alibi.
JERRY ORBACH All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
WILL ROGERS No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
NAPOLEON HILL Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.
NATHANIEL WING All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
WILL ROGERS If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her hu...
DARK JAR TIN ZOO 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
JERRY ORBACH Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else."
Then let's be quiet together.
LEONARD COHEN The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.
LISA KLEYPAS People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi.
EMO PHILIPS Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the...
ERIC HOFFER An alibi is only as good as its details.
KENNETH EADE An alibi is one alliterative consonant short of being a magic carpet
JOSH STERN Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.
LUIGINA SGARRO There's alibi witnesses other than Charlene, and there's phone records. These are the reasons why th...
MICHAEL DERISO It's a new jury, so I guess we have a new alibi. I would call it a desperate and insulting attempt t...
ERIC DUBIN It blew his alibi out of the water.
JAMES SENESCU It would be a real failure if agreeing that it[abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alib...
ROWAN WILLIAMS I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi
ANITA BROOKNER There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement do...
ERIC HOFFER People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alib...
EMO PHILIPS Dead is always a good alibi
SPENCER KOPE You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confide...
CHRISTY MATHEWSON Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are com...
SUE GRAFTON You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don...
EMO PHILIPS It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are go...
ALBERT CAMUS The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
ALBERT CAMUS The world turned and flung me.
DAVID ISERSON It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going ...
ALBERT CAMUS I can tell you that they have evidence in the form of an alibi that will clearly show at the alleged...
JAMES WILLIAMS Which has more lifetime value ...an object that will eventually be discarded or an personalized, hea...
LORRIN L. LEE So many crimes are solved by a happy accident, by someone of the right nationality happening to be w...
TERRY PRATCHETT I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...'
'...Turned out the wicked stepmothe...
JOHN CONNOLLY I think the evidence is going to be very clear that he has an absolutely rock solid alibi. And I thi...
BILL THOMAS When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the...
JENNA MORASCA I always used to put on plays when I was younger for my family to watch, when I was 10 or something....
ERIN RICHARDS These cards are really hard to mess up because we do laminate them. And we offer the discount for mu...
DEANA STEVENS Let's not make the referee an alibi to vent our disappointment on. If we had scored in the first leg...
CLARENCE SEEDORF Where's your sense of adventure?
It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self...
HOWARD TAYLER You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusiv...
TRENTON LEE STEWART Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you c...
DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER At least this time, with this murder, she knew he had an alibi. At the time Cicely Towers was having...
J.D. ROBB Some of them lived as men. A lot of the time they would follow their husbands, lovers or family memb...
JIM STEVENSON The crowd is going to be quite a mix. It will be friends and family along with members of the art sc...
LAUREN NOLL Send your loved ones and friends a personalized photo greeting card. They'll keep and treasure it mo...
LORRIN L. LEE The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's grea...
BILLY EVANS A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
JESSE JACKSON I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for...
KARISMA KAPOOR But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one...
BETSY LERNER Daddy just repeated the word, internship. As an alibi, it was a thing of beauty: its overtone...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG Touch people's hearts. Take photos of them. Mail it to them. Print them on a greeting card. With a h...
LORRIN L. LEE Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
KAREN ALLEN I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or atten...
EMMA WATSON You're going to eventually see more stored value cards, which might be a way for you to pay for smal...
ELLEN STARK The only difference between friends and lovers is about four minutes.
SCOTT ROEBEN I looked at the greeting-card industry and saw that there was so much potential in it.
JANEEN KOCONIS Friends can be lovers one day, but lovers can never be friends ever. Love may end up with marriage o...
NISHI DE SILVA People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd beli...
BRYANT MCGILL In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a...
BEE WILSON Between Twitter and Facebook and how close you can be with your fans and how close they can be to yo...
HOLLAND RODEN I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will n...
DICK MORRIS I've given people food, things and money. I've discovered that people treasured and kept was an unex...
LORRIN L. LEE The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the fu...
ALBERT CAMUS You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending i...
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JINCY WILLETT Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi...
THOMAS PAINE Honesty whispers, "Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.
ANGELICA HOPES You use your own money. I did have a few people who gave me money for the campaign, but I never aske...
FRANK MCCARTNEY Happiness, laughter and joy abound,when friends, family, and lovers are around.
AMY DAVIS If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere
live as they live elsewhere.
[La...
SAINT AMBROSE Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in t...
REBECCA HALL I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so y...
CAMILA ALVES I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and ...
JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And...
MAE WEST An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; ...
DEREK JARMAN An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; ...
DEREK JARMAN Happiness, laughter and joy abound,
when friends, family, and lovers are around.
AMY DAVIS Today focus on the qualities you like about yourself, focus on the good friends and family members y...
MICHELINE JEAN LOUIS Why shall we talk?
To provide the right amount of clarity between family members in their home ...
MARYAM ABDULLAH ALNAYMI Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers...
ALLEN GINSBERG This year will be a watershed for delivering to consumers an array of new entertainment experiences....
KURT SCHERF I don't really know how my family and friends will react to seeing me on screen in a cinema. I...
BEN HARDY Some of the student's family members and friends will attend (the evening performance.) Some people ...
GRETCHEN LEITNER If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who sho...
GREGORY NUNN Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing f...
ALAN DUNDES Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart...
GERMANY KENT By not sending friends greeting cards, you may be telling them that you don't want them to remember ...
LORRIN L. LEE Let's be friends before lovers, don't ask to be my friend after you've broken my heart.
JASMINE SANDOZZ Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive ...
ZIG ZIGLAR And then the other guy will look really sheepish, and mumble that, okay, maybe he tried to make a ru...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion f...
JULIAN BAGGINI All your friends would appreciate a birthday card from you. Send them a personalized photo card in y...
LORRIN L. LEE Really knowing your guests will really help with that. If they are friends or family, then you'll ki...
SONYA JENNINGS You’re too much of a bitch to go gently into that good night.”
“You should put that on a ...
SE ZBASNIK It was my idea to come to America. It was a tough decision. I had to give up my friends and family, ...
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