Cheaper Quotes - Page 9

• If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

  Felix Dennis

  Running, Money, Long

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.14, Penguin

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• There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.

  Israel Zangwill

  Men, Hair, Long

  Israel Zangwill (2012). “The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes”, p.180, tredition

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• Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.

  Ismail Merchant

  India, Film, Wells

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• You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!

  George Orwell

  War, Eye, Beer

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• Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

  Tryon Edwards

  Evil, Easier, Results

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1063, Ravenio Books

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• New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

  Dean Kamen

  Technology, Ideas, Dimes

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• When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be millions of times more cost effective.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Powerful, Phones, Cells

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• The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Wind, Two, Energy

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• By far the best cure for hangovers is not drinking excessively the night before.This cure has a 100% success rate, and as you save the cost of the drinks you would have otherwise drunk, it is cheaper than free.

  John Green

  Real, Drinking, Hangover

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• Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

  Anthony Weiner

  Military, Fighting, Israel

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, transcripts.cnn.com. January 27, 2011.

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• Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.

  Annie Dillard

  Nature, Believe, Autumn

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.66, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

  Bill Watterson

  Needs, Hobbes, Virtue

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• For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Running, Struggle, Opportunity

  "The Tunisia Twitter Revolution That Wasn’t". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2011.

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• I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

  Tiger Woods

  Thinking, Lessons, Needs

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

  Tommy Shaw

  Sound, Band, Clubs

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• My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

  Amy Sedaris

  God, Mom, Easter

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• Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.

  T. Boone Pickens

  America, Fuel, Gasoline

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• I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Hate, Flower

  Quoted in N.Y. Herald Tribune, 18 Apr. 1954

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• Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Powerful, Creating, Cost

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• I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes

  Charles Bukowski

  Country, War, Hero

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.475, Canongate Books

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• In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

  Douglas Adams

  Civilization, Two, Omission

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.

  Martin Sorrell

  Business, Circles, Chinese

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• Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.

  Peter Bonfield

  Business, Way, Enough

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• That was the beauty in stacking up words--they got cheaper, the more you had of them.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Stacking

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl: A Novel”, p.425, Macmillan

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