Money Pit Quotes

#1. There's just something about progressive charities and celebrity-backed causes that makes every "charity" they create or touch turn into a money pit or a scandal.

Jason Mattera

#2. Scientific research is a bottomless money pit. You can approximate Doing Science to standing on the Crack of Doom throwing banknotes down it by the double-handful, in the hope that if you choke the volcano with enough paper it will cough up the One Ring.

Charles Stross

#3. I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.

Franka Potente

#4. ... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.

Cirilo F. Bautista

#5. Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

Oscar Wilde

#6. All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.

David O. McKay

#7. My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

Jesmyn Ward

#8. Making decisions based on others' approval or on guilt breeds resentment, a product of our sinful nature. We have been so trained by others on what we "should" do that we think we are being loving when we do things out of compulsion.

Henry Cloud

#9. Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

George Farquhar

#10. What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again.

William Shakespeare

#11. God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

William Cowper

#12. Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail."
"Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.

Brandon Mull

#13. The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

Samuel Chadwick

#14. By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.

Jon Stewart

#15. I don't really know what 'American' is. I know what Ukrainian is. We're happy Slavic people. We're not Dostoyevsky Slavic people. There's this sense of 'pick it up, get your hands dirty, make the best of it, celebrate.'

Nina Arianda