Top 100 It Pays Quotes
#1. Roget looked so profoundly timid. What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay to forget your better judgment?
Anne Rice
#3. The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.
Carolyn Jones
#4. Listen closely ... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.
Jack Kerouac
#5. When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.
David Hasselhoff
#7. Yeah, like this one carny up in Fargo. It had a big sign saying 'See the Siamese twins,' and everybody pays a buck, thinking they're gonna see two people hooked together. And when they get there it's a cage with two Siamese kittens in it. Like that.
Connie Willis
#8. Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
P. J. O'Rourke
#9. There is no such thing as a riskless asset. The reason an asset pays a return is that it carries risk.
Michael Lewis
#10. Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
Kate Winslet
#11. God is a good paymaster; He pays His servants while at work as well as when they have done it;
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#12. One pays a price for innovation, and innovators, knowing this, are hardly conciliators: books are not written specifically to please others; they are written, like it or not, to please oneself.
Alexis Lykiard
#15. Have patience when it is really worth doing so, no matter what, and notwithstanding how hard impatience knocks at your door, and you will know patience better
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#16. China's critics rightly condemn the government for controlling public opinion in all sorts of ways, from imprisoning dissidents to censoring internet discussions. Yet the regime's obsession with control paradoxically means it pays close attention to public opinion.
Anonymous
#17. The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.
Jack Canfield
#18. Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations.
Karl Hess
#19. Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.
Peter Schiff
#20. Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.
Albert Einstein
#21. It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
Janet Morris
#23. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.
Tom Hanks
#24. The author stipulates that while television lately background noise for a child, it tends to shift to the foreground for the adult. The adult pays enough attention to the media attention is paid to the child.
Gary Chapman
#25. Do what you want to do in life and you will see what life will do to you on earth. What you always do, pays what it always pays!
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
George Herbert
#27. Rap is stress, but it pays great.
Drake
#28. It was like a broken slot machine in the casino that pays off every time. It would keep paying off until someone said something about it; but no one who played the slot machine had any interest in pointing out that it was broken.
Michael Lewis
#29. Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.
Mary Abigail Dodge
#30. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.
Theodore Roosevelt
#31. What are you looking at?"
"I was thinking about becoming a lady of the night."
"What?"
"There's actually an ad looking for one. Can you believe it? It pays a grand a week."
"Shit, for a grand a week, "I'll become a lady of the night.
L.A. Fiore
#32. It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
Orison Swett Marden
#33. To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.
Isabella Rossellini
#34. It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.
Eugene H. Peterson
#35. Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.
Neil Postman
#36. It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.
Isabella Rossellini
#37. When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.
Richie Benaud
#38. It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.
Bob Dylan
#39. This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.
Morrissey
#40. In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.
David Landes
#41. Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.
Nutan Bajracharya
#42. Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It's a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.
Questlove
#43. We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it's worth it, that it pays.
Peter Kreeft
#44. Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Elsa Maxwell
#45. There are some people who get money just because they've got large families. So if it pays to make large families and earn more money than you would earn out at work, why not have more families, larger families? That's wrong.
Robin Leach
#46. Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner ... it pays to be an expert.
Allan Pease
#48. Your mama-akra sent that to you, akri, to hurt the heathen-god. Now it's Dimonique time. The Simi can't be bothered we no Greek god messing with the one who pays the plastic bills. Can the Simi have that black metal card she loves so much? (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#49. The sky was filled with fat stars, swollen from the long night. The moon had risen briefly and then slipped out of sight. It was one of those sad moons that no one looks at or pays attention to. It had hung there a while, misshapen, not shedding any light, and then gone to hide behind the hills.
Juan Rulfo
#50. If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans ...
Julianna Baggott
#51. Man owes two solemn debts
one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
Douglas William Jerrold
#52. It pays to be prepared.
Aesop
#53. Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.
Jonah Goldberg
#54. The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.
Robert McChesney
#55. It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov
#56. The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it.
Thomas Adcock
#57. It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
Pliny The Elder
#58. The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
Kenneth L. Pike
#59. There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one opinion, they can't tell you about their feelings. They have to go with what pays their bills.
Danny Bonaduce
#60. am that Messenger whom men from the beginning have called Kepher," he said. "I am the Dweller in the wilderness whom your fathers knew, and your sons shall know. I am he who seeks for charity and pays it back in
H. Rider Haggard
#61. We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions.
Charles B. Rangel
#62. I like spending a lot of time fine-tuning all the small characters. I think it really pays off.
Ellen Chenoweth
#63. Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.
Nevil Shute
#64. I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.
Zig Ziglar
#65. That's why I preach today. Do not do spite," he said. "Spite does not pay. It goes around and misses the object that you aim and comes back and zaps you. And you're the one who pays for it.
Isabel Wilkerson
#66. It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.
Blaise Pascal
#67. Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.
John Lasseter
#68. There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
Harold Wilson
#70. I know that some actors take acting terribly seriously. I take it seriously in that if someone pays me to do it I know I have to deliver.
David Warner
#71. Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you'll get out again.
Claudia Gray
#72. What is your real work? Is it that which pays the bills or is it your art? I think your real work is healing. Whatever helps you become more loving in this lifetime. Whatever helps you forgive yourself, embrace yourself, meet yourself, and free yourself in this lifetime.
Tama J. Kieves
#73. Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
Gagan Narang
#74. The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing.
Rodney Brooks
#75. There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.
E.B. White
#76. It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.
Kathy Najimy
#77. What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them? It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.
Franz Grillparzer
#78. I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.
Kathy Bates
#79. Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.
Bob Ross
#81. I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
Felicia Day
#82. I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
Florence Welch
#83. The human body is strangely made and sometimes it pays not to think about it too closely.
Walter Kirn
#85. I don't speak up if I'm working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!
Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
#86. In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.
Jorge Paulo Lemann
#87. And death hasn't come. It never does come when you call it. It enjoys torturing us. I've been calling for it for years and it pays me no attention
Agota Kristof
#88. There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
George Orwell
#89. It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.
Carl Sagan
#90. It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.
Nolan Sotillo
#91. Raising the minimum wage may poll well, but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the American Dream. And our current government programs, offer at best only a partial solution. They help people deal with poverty, but they do not help them escape it.
Marco Rubio
#92. It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.
James Howard Kunstler
#93. If only I'd realized earlier that it never pays to fight evil with evil. But after watching my father die, I'd been consumed with bitterness and had allowed it to lead me astray from what was righteous and pleasing to God.
Jody Hedlund
#94. Sin always overpromises and underdelivers, while righteousness pays dividends for eternity...
Nothing is more illogical than sin. It's the epitome of poor judgment. It's temporary insanity with eternal consequences. And we have no alibi, save the cross of Jesus Christ.
Mark Batterson
#95. I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
Andrew Eldritch
#96. A girl who pays attention is very cool. It's really hard to pay attention to someone. I understand. I get it. I get bored a lot when I'm talking to people, but I try. So I'd like for the girl to try, too.
Chris D'Elia
#97. Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.
William J. Clinton
#98. Do all the good you can, to all the people you can, however you can, at all the times you can, at all the places you can and every how you can... You'll never know when you will do it to an angel. Only good pays well
Elizabeth Kazeem
#99. The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.
Richard E. Besser
#100. I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.
Fred Armisen
