Five Cents Quotes

#1. This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.

Mordecai Richler

#2. At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.

Joshua Greenberg

#3. Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.

Billiam Coronel

#4. Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

E.L. Konigsburg

#5. Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.

Henry Latham Doherty

#6. Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!

Maurice Duplessis

#7. At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

Eric Ries

#8. When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silently observed this boy with torn clothes and dirty face and hands. He asked your father how much the boy earned each day. After asking the boy, he told Einstein: five cents.

Liu Cixin

#9. I have deep feelings of depression ... What can I do about this?'
'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

Charles M. Schulz

#10. Well, I hate small talk, and I refuse to become one of those old people who spends all their time telling young people how much better and cheaper things used to be. What do you care if the subway used to cost five cents? It don't anymore.

Helen Cox

#11. For every dollar spent on health care in America, ninety-five cents goes to treat a disease after it has occurred.

Deepak Chopra

#12. I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride ... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

Tiny Tim

#13. I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.

Henry Ford

#14. Eight dollars and eighty-five cents. Sixty-five cents. I spent some.

J.D. Salinger

#15. I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun.

Franny Armstrong

#16. The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents.

W.C. Fields

#17. The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.

Charles Comiskey

#18. A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Gene Fowler

#19. In 1951, Aerojet provided an employee cafeteria that featured roast prime rib of beef (seventy-five cents) on Thursdays, New York steaks (eighty-five cents) on Wednesdays and lobster (seventy-five cents) on Friday.

Maryellen Burns

#20. Sometimes I ask myself questions... Sometimes I ask myself, is this your real life or is this just a pilot film? Is my life a thirty-nine week series or is it a special?"
"Whatever it is, your ratings are down... Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

#21. I've tried to be a better person ... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried ... "
"Nice try ... Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

#22. Hack, hack, hack. I wouldn't pay twenty-five cents to spit on a Georgia O'Keeffe painting. And I think she's a horrible person, too. I know her ... So arrogant, so sure of herself. I'm sure she's carrying a dildo in her purse.

Truman Capote

#23. I think I know what's wrong with you ... Walk up onto that pitcher's mound ... Does your stomach hurt now?"
"Yes! Ow! Ooo! Yes!"
"All right, now come down off the mound ... There ... Has it stopped hurting?"
"Yes ... Yes, I think it has!"
"There's your trouble ... Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

#24. The door refused to open. It said, Five cents, please.

Philip K. Dick

#25. I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

Guy Fieri

#26. I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

Esther Williams

#27. The fact is I am a compulsive reader. Thirty-five cents' worth of Gold Medal Original will put me right to sleep. Or Perry Mason. But I'll read the ads in an old Paris-Match that has been used to wrap herring before I'll do without.

Robert A. Heinlein

#28. True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

Orison Swett Marden

#29. When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.

Caroll Spinney

#30. Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

Mary Oliver

#31. I had to go to the school nurse yesterday because my stomach hurt ... "
"You worry too much, Charlie Brown ... No wonder your stomach hurts ... You've got to stop all this silly worrying!"
"How do I stop?"
"That's your worry! Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

#32. In this neighborhood, with only forty-five cents, you're a bum. But Sobotnik, even with two dollars, he's still a bum.

Nelson Algren

#33. He's meeting his girl now, a girl not much older than 14. A five-and-ten-cents store Cleopatra, a four letter word.

Kurt Vonnegut

#34. On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

David Ogilvy

#35. Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

Arnold Bennett

#36. Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.

Jack Benny

#37. Five-hundred-fifty-six dollars and twenty-nine cents worth of Christmas decorations.

Heather Horrocks

#38. I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy.

Pearl S. Buck

#39. Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

Will Rogers