Pennies famous quotes
07-16-2025
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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 -
Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.
-- Irving Wallace -
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.
-- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
-- Jennifer Garner -
I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.
-- Jesse Ventura -
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 -
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.
-- Jim Rohn -
Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world.
-- JJ Feild -
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 -
Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his positions to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.
-- Joe Eszterhas -
I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.
-- Joe Manchin -
The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny...
-- John C. Danforth -
Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.
-- John Selden -
I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.
-- Jonathan Frakes -
I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.
-- Kathleen Winsor -
I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside
-- Ken Dodd -
A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.
-- Leonard Nimoy -
You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals
-- Lev Grossman -
I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
-- Little Richard -
All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.
-- Ludwig Quidde -
Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.
-- Marc Ostrofsky -
A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.
-- Mary Landrieu -
Penny said two words, the second of which was "you." Caine laughed. "I think you meant '---- you, Your Highness.
-- Michael Grant -
Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.
-- Michael Grant -
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 -
I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.
-- Michael Specter -
Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.
-- P.D. Ouspensky -
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
-- Plutarch -
If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
-- Rachel Roy -
We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.
-- Rand Paul -
I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.
-- Rand Paul -
I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.
-- Richard Prince -
When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go.
-- Robert Goolrick -
With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.
-- Robert Pollok -
The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.
-- Robert Waterman McChesney -
That penny farthing hell you call your mind
-- Samuel Beckett -
A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
-- Samuel Grafton -
If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
-- Steven Wright -
The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.
-- Suze Orman -
Make it a policy to know your net worth to the penny.
-- T. Harv Eker -
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
-- Thomas Sowell -
Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.
-- Tim Allen -
We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.
-- Timothy Thomas Fortune -
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
-- William H. Gass -
As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.
-- William Proxmire -
I am a one-trick pony. But I have worked hard at something I would have liked to do even if I weren't paid a penny for it, and made a good living at it. You can't be luckier than that in this life, no matter who you are or what you do.
-- Allen W. Wood -
Buy your freedom. Work really hard when you're young, save every penny, make a lot of money, and retire at 40, or 30 if you get lucky.
-- Andrew Skurka -
In love, 100 pennies do not equal a dollar.
-- Carlos Salinas -
The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.
-- David Rolf -
... 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 -
My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn't owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the internet and found this was extremely common. There was this world where these debts were sold off by the banks for pennies on the dollar and bought and sold.
-- Jake Halpern -
Somebody asked me about this the other day. A young Shaq and a young Penny, the young Shaq's going to take over. A medium Shaq and a young Kobe, the medium Shaq is going to take over. Now you've got an older Shaq and a young Dwyane; you step aside, you let him do his thing and you just do what's asked of you.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -
Me and Penny are going to be the Kareem and Magic of the '90s.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -
Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.
-- Michael Barone -
The Aly loafer is our modern take on the penny loafer with a subtle slit across the top. I wear loafers with everything these days- skinny jeans, long skirts and dresses.
-- Ashley Olsen -
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
-- Petronius -
I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders
-- Rodney Alexander
