Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

Third time pays for all

Iyanla Vanzant

When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she's gonna pay for it!

Iyanla Vanzant

Life will let you get away with something for a while, but sooner or later, you will pay the price. Everything you do in life causes the effects that you experience. When you get the bill, be prepared to pay.

Isaac Asimov

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Elton John

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

Irving Azoff

Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

He took the devil's mat, but he'll pay back with his skin.

Dick Vitale

He told her she could live there as long as she wanted and pay rent. That's what they did.

Judd Gregg

Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

Patrick Rothfuss

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

Naguib Mahfouz

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Miyamoto Musashi

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

Publilius Syrus

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

Nelson Bunker Hunt

First, you decide what you want specifically; and second, you decide if you're willing to pay the price to make it happen, and then pay that price.

Newt Gingrich

Drill here, drill now, pay less.

Noam Chomsky

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.

Noam Chomsky

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

Jodi Picoult

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

Jodi Picoult

If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.

Oliver Goldsmith

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

Margaret Atwood

She who pays the undertaker calls the tune.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

Ken Livingstone

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

P. J. O'Rourke

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

Oscar Wilde

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

Macaulay Culkin

I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

Lorrie Moore

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

Michael Dolan

Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.

Martin Feldstein

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

Nicki Minaj

My features & my shows 10 times your pay 50k for a verse no album out

Matt Gonzalez

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.

John Green

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

Paul Begala

Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?