Centimes Quotes

#1. Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Simone Weil

#2. Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.

Arthur W. Pink

#3. At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

Martha Plimpton

#4. And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.

Stephenie Meyer

#5. I looked up to the Heavens gauging the distance. Maybe I could catapult Raphael back with an epic kick to the ass.

Ashlan Thomas

#6. It's a holy city for music.

Hugh Laurie

#7. It's a yes then? (Arik)
No. I thought I'd walk through hell to reclaim you and carry your baby just for the heck of it. Who needs marriage. (Geary)
I do! (Arik)
Good. I can let you live another day. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.

Thomas Hobbes

#9. To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

Jon Cryer

#10. But in the divine nature Persons three,
And in one person the divine and human.

Dante Alighieri

#11. The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#12. I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I won't object.

Edward H. Rulloff

#13. Fear made her seem ill; it distorted her body lines, made her appear as if someone had broken her, and then, with malice, patched her together badly.

Philip K. Dick

#14. It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but two laws for his subjects, the first being, Hurt no man , and the second, Then do as you please.

Albert J. Nock

#15. I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.

Hedi Slimane