Nickels Quotes

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  Flip Wilson

  Motivational, Success, Positivity

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• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Money

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.26, Workman Publishing

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• History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Dimes, Turns, Turn-on

  Jeff Greenfield (2011). “Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reaga n”, p.9, Penguin

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• Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Florida, Years

  The Cocoanuts (motion picture) (1929). Screenplay by George S. Kaufman.

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• Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?

  Tommy Douglas

  Boys, Comfort, Bullets

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.

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• It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

  Walt Disney

  Unique, People, Secret

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• Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

  Phyllis McGinley

  Christmas, Dimes, Petitions

  Phyllis McGinley (1946). “Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley”, Viking Press

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• Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Toilets, Unions, Bathroom

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• If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

  Tom Hicks

  Two, Tables, Want

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• Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

  Lord Byron

  And Love, Drink, Drinks And Love

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• I hate nickels; they're quarter impersonators.

  Gary Gulman

  Hate, Quarters, Impersonators

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• In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, and Copper and part of the Silver spectrum. The chief result is that all the elements give the same kind of spectrum, the result for any metal being quite easy to guess from the results for the others. This shows that the insides of all the atoms are very much alike, and from these results it will be possible to find out something of what the insides are made up of.

  Henry Moseley

  Science, Iron, Giving

  "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915" by J. L. Heilbron, University of California Press, (p. 209), 1974.

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• I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Children

  Quoted in Norman Zierold, The Moguls (1969)

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• You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

  Raymond Chandler

  Two, Trying, Together

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Big Sleep: A Novel”, p.90, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

  Andy Rooney

  Kids, Games, Lame

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• The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy - then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight - assuming it was straight in the first place.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Office, Democracy

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Uranium Mining, Gold, World

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• It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Two, Research, Enthusiasm

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• I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

  Bill Lee

  Change, Baseball, Beer

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• Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Business, Humor

  "Your Guide to Self-Directed". Book by Daniel Cordoba. p. 197, September 19, 2008.

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• They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

  Ruben Blades

  Making Money

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• When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

  Tommy Shaw

  Song, Sister In Law, Giving

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• I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about

  Tommy Shaw

  Song, Wish, Bathroom

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• You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Prayer, Blow

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.

  Gene Simmons

  Dimes

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