Famous Quotes & Sayings

David H. Murdock

If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.

Chuck Schumer

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.

Regina Brett

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

Dyan Cannon

They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

Susan Isaacs

I hate when people say, 'Oh, they laughed all the way to the bank.' That's nonsense because the most cynical, unhappy people are Hollywood screenwriters. They earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for work that's never made.

Kimora Lee Simmons

We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal.

Neill Blomkamp

I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.

Andrew Nikiforuk

When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

John Parker

Those are going to take major dollars (to repair) that the legislature did not give to us this last term,

Chino Moreno

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brenda Russell

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

David Carson

I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn't doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.

Edward Carpenter

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

Edmund White

Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

Caleb Cushing

Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

Naomi Martin

We played well in the first half and then let up in the second half. We need to learn how to play an entire game. Early in the season we try to play the game well and limit our mistakes.

Micah Marsh

We played well in spurts, but our intensity wasn't what it should be. Next week, we can't have that or we're going to have an early exit.

Bill Cosby

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

Malcolm Gladwell

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.

Lauren Myracle

Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.

William Penn

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

Aerin Lauder

I think people love having a person behind a brand who lives it. The idea of storytelling is really important.

Zolal Habibi

Those are just some of the thousands of women who paid with their lives for their ideals.

David Anderson

We're doing this for our neighbors and to save lives and property,

The Talmud

There are three whose lives are lacking: the over-compassionate, the hot-tempered, and the too-squeamish

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Anderson

You've got spending going on. Overcapacity is actually going to be going away.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

John Faso

I would look to put state spending on a diet.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Hans Trousil

We have been working to keep the tax levy down.

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Grover Norquist

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Stephen Harper

If you want your taxes to go down, you have to vote for it.

Michael Sata

This is our country. You are treating me like an animal, like it's not my country.

Pauline Hanson

Reconciliation is everyone recognising and treating each other as equals, and everyone must be responsible for their own actions.

Dr. Wu

I'm her treating psychiatrist, and she did not know right from wrong.

Kathy Fackler

By treating them seriously, they're just on fire.

Pharrell Williams

If you're not learning, you're wasting your time.

Bertrand Russell

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fernando Pessoa

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

Eric Williams

I was going to be a part of something, but I really ain't a part of nothing. So I'm pretty much wasting my f---in' time. You try to be a professional, but f--- professionalism.

Horace

What has not wasting time impaired?

Joshua Ferris

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

Scott Adams

Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons

Tom Hanks

The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.

Heath Ledger

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.