Pennies Quotes - Page 3

• They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.

  Jack Kerouac

  Three, Saving, Fifty

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.160, Penguin

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• This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over fourteen thousand dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Years

  "Saturday Night Live Weekend Update" with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, snltranscripts.jt.org. November 20, 2004.

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• A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.

  George Eliot

  Work, Men, Giving

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.121, Wordsworth Editions

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• Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Creative, Satisfaction, Rhetoric

  "Eszterhas Takes on Democrats" by Steve Gorman, abcnews.go.com.

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• I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Gratitude, Meals, Debt

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3428, Bantam

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• What smells strongly of crap to one generation - Victorian penny dreadfuls, the music of the Archies, the Lone Ranger radio show, blaxploitation films of the seventies - so often becomes a fruitful source of inspiration, veneration, and study for those to come, while certified Great and Worthy Art molders and fades on its storage rack, giving off an increasingly powerful whiff of naphthalene.

  Michael Chabon

  Art, Powerful, Inspiration

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• In the space between our bodies there is a cup holder filled with pennies a distance which can often take years to cross.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Love, Distance, Years

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• For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.

  Hilary Rosen

  Song, Two, People

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• I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working!

  Joanna Garcia

  Lucky, Collections, Seems

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• We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

  Rand Paul

  Cutting, Safety, Welfare

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• ... thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.

  Hetty Green

  Business, Ethics, Life Is

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• We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going into mourning. It is not a question of going around with a long face. It is just a question of having a pause between the old and the new. No haste to find a substitute for the one who has given you love for years. Wait, and let fate provide the answer.

  Derek Tangye

  Memories, Fate, Years

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• And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg

  Eye, Dollars, Jagger

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

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• Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  "Helen Gurley Brown on Money, Sex and Having It All" by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2012.

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• A covetous man's penny is a stone.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Greed, Stones

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• Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny.

  Eddie Mair

  Independent, Should, Blogs

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• As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

  Maureen Dowd

  Wall, Character, Blue

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• A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.

  P. T. Barnum

  Rainy Day, Dollars, Goes On

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

  Bobby Scott

  Ice Cream, Profound, Debt

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• A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Gold, Painter, Turns

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• I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask. But once you have set the wages, why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Giving

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1939). “The moving tide: new and selected lyrics by Jessie B. Rittenhouse...”

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• I bargained with Life for a penny,
  And Life would pay no more,
  However I begged at evening
  When I counted my scanty store.

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Life, Pay, Evening

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1918). “The Door of Dreams”

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• ... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is at all sensitive, for people visit upon the postman all their first annoyance at receiving a couple of bills when they looked for a love-letter, and if a packet is insufficiently stamped they hand over the pennies as though to a despicable bandit, too outrageous to be denied, too groveling to be feared.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Couple, Hands, People

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• All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

  Conrad Aiken

  Lovely, Youth, Spending

  Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.273, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I collect lucky pennies that I find on the ground. I keep them in a Ziploc bag.

  Jessica Simpson

  Lucky, Bags

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