Famous Quotes & Sayings

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

J. K. Rowling

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

Henry Ford

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Robert King

This is all the money in the city, sitting right here,

Enid Bagnold

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

Bob Groves

The 'flex' money is an unusual, one-time expenditure. As for the rest, some of it would be spent over several years.

Richard Morris Hunt

The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.

Gary Brown

You don't have to spend $300 today. Do it over time.

Napoleon Hill

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Ogden Nash

He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Dave Sim

No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.

Bill Cunningham

I don't pay attention to celebrities. I don't photograph them. They don't dress so... interestingly. They have stylists. I prefer real women who have their own taste.

E. W. Howe

No scheme pays as well as legitimate business.

Gunter Blobel

In the United States, the wealthy have a tradition of charity. But in Germany, the rich say, 'We pay taxes. It's enough.'

Henry Shelton

We, collectively, are robbing Peter to pay Paul,

Minnie Pearl

When people pay their money, they want to see you. That's the way it was with Elvis. I like to remember him the way he was in Hawaii.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!