Half Dollar Sayings

#1. You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drink it up. You do as you want, it's your money.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#2. Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

Barack Obama

#3. Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#4. He pulled out his wallet and extracted a twenty-dollar bill, fastidiously folding it in half so that the crease cut across the face of Theodore Roosevelt, with its shining spectacles and its Chesire Cat grin.

Dexter Palmer

#5. The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

Karl Rove

#6. He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American.

Mitt Romney

#7. If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?

Jon Lovitz

#8. Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.

Kelley Armstrong

#9. But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

Julian Casablancas

#10. I was feeling a bit down, I went to a therapist a few times, at a hundred bucks a pop. But then I realized that no therapy session would ever cheer me up half as much as if I was just strolling along and found a hundred dollar bill.

Emo Philips

#11. Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

Patti Smith

#12. If the exchange rate is a matter of pride, Japan should be only half as proud as India (120 yen to a dollar) and China ten times more (6.2 yuan to a dollar)! My

P. Chidambaram

#13. If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.

Cat Cora

#14. You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Mary Stewart

#15. When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it.

Barack Obama

#16. They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.

Grover Norquist

#17. My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne.

Suzanne Brockmann

#18. Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

William E. Geist

#19. I don't think I'm unique or that I'm trying to do something unique, but I feel it is something I would like to hear. This kind of music I would like to listen to but I can't hear very often.

Rokia Traore

#20. The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.

Mary Ann Mobley

#21. I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they should shut up because you know what you're talking about.

Robert Downey Jr.

#22. I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday.

Romany Malco

#23. 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

#24. I ain't gonna pay no dollar for a corn muffin that's half dough.

Kevin Kling

#25. If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

Dan Harmon

#26. The pharmaceutical drug industry is a half-trillion dollar per year global industry, with almost 300 billion dollars in the United States alone. The pharmaceutical companies and their shareholders rely on people to be sick, or else their stocks will plummet. There is no money to be made in health.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#27. If stocks double but the dollar loses half its value, who beyond Wall Street are the winners and losers?

David Malpass

#28. Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

Ovid

#29. Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?

David Letterman

#30. If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

Baba Kalyani