Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Wole Soyinka

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

Tim Jackson

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

Bob Newhart

A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.

David Cassidy

The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.

Alan Alda

Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?

Muhammad Ali

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

Muhammad Ali

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

When a program has a reserve, that money is for spending.

Vivian Stanshall

If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.'

Wolfman Jack

I'm very rich - in friends. I'm too nice a fellow. I give most of my money away.

Iris Apfel

People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.

Ira Glass

When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

Sam Crawford

I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.

Macaulay Culkin

I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.

Natalie Cole

Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.

I can make dopey decisions for which I have to pay. If I take some little old lady's superannuation money, I would be mortified if things didn't go to plan.

If the books are selling, the money will follow.

We don't have a lot of money for a lawyer.

Little Milton

Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid.

Lisa Hannigan

If I had all the money in the world, I don't think I'd want to be in the studio for longer.

Bill Hader

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

Campbell Scott

I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

Robert Graves

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Charlton Heston

You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA.

Samuel Butler

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Samuel Butler

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Samuel Butler

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

Karl Rove

I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.

Lara St. John

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

Jeff Ross

You don't mess with Oprah. She has enough money in her left pocket to have me killed.

Mike Doyle

When the trains come through, you're trapped. We've now secured the money (for flyover ramps in Duquesne and McKeesport).