Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's felt it's too soon after the introduction of euro notes and coins for any change. The ECB will not do anything to overshadow that move.

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.

It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.

Dentist, n.: A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets.

Brigitte Bardot

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.

Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

Alexander Pope

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

David Attenborough

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

Rumi

God (in His mercy) accepts false coin.

John Wanamaker

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

If we put all the coins in a line on the pavement, it would stretch over 1km down the road.

Angel Cabrera

I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece.

Friedrich Nietzsche

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

some of the coins are so rare that I hate to see them go.

Bill Vaughan

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.

Whether any of our coins in circulation in any of the countries will turn out to be useful, only time will tell, ... It depends how many people put notes away.

Jay Leno

They determined who got the first question by a coin toss, to which Sarah Palin said, 'Oh, what a coincidence, that's how I got picked.'

Janet Fitch

A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

Fred Seibert

I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.

Sammy Cahn

Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

Banksy

Keep your coins, I want change.

William Shakespeare

Coins always make sound but currency notes are always silent, so when ever your value increases keep yourself calm and silent.

PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.

I like to collect experiences the way other people like to collect coins and stamps.

Tamsin Greig

I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

The coins are obviously currency used for trade, but they have images of gods on them.

Kellan Lutz

I collect dice and I collect coins. I travel the world so I love dice, I always have dice on me. I collect magnets as well.

Matthew Arnold

You will be out of the lives of free people everywhere. Your face will be off the coins and with that, your arrogant, undue influence. Everywhere. ... Everywhere. .. Every. ...

Louis Menand

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

Emily Browning

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

Freya Stark

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

David Gemmell

It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.

Cormac McCarthy

I got here the same way the coin did.