Quotes and Sayings About Pennies
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Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day.
-- A. J. Cook -
Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
-- Al Capone -
Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.
-- Andrew Marr -
If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.
-- Andy Samberg -
I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
-- Ben Feldman -
... some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent.
-- Billy Graham -
For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
-- Bo Burnham -
I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.
-- Bryan Adams -
I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.
-- Camille Claudel -
In love, 100 pennies do not equal a dollar.
-- Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny.
-- Cindy Sheehan -
I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.
-- Claire Messud -
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 -
I have a jar at home, and I put pennies in it whenever I curse. The other day I spilled the jar. I owe it about $25.
-- Demetri Martin -
Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
-- Don King -
Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny...
-- Eddie Mair -
Of troubles know I none,Of pleasures know I many -I rove beneath the sunWithout a single penny.
-- Eleanor Farjeon -
I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.
-- Emma Thompson -
The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.
-- Felix Dennis -
I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.
-- Frank Norris -
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
-- George Carlin -
I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have
-- George Galloway -
Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?
-- George Orwell -
My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.
-- GG Allin -
[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.
-- Harold Urey -
The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.
-- Harriet Martineau -
He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.
-- Howard Pyle -
I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.
-- Hugh Howey