No Bonus Quotes

#1. Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.

John Lanchester

#2. There's no bonus to seeing life through a dirty lens, even if it feels more real.

Sally Hanan

#3. I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

Katy Perry

#4. Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

Frederic Bastiat

#5. The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

Carol Grace

#6. You know what Gordie Howe got for a signing bonus? A team jacket!

Ed Lauter

#7. Stay out there! Don't you dare come back in here with those evil mind tricks! (Simone)
Does it buy me any bonus points to note that you have a really nice looking ass? (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted 'prizes' for participation in fundraisers - books and other neat promo items.

Lori Foster

#9. -I love you.
-You love me because I've made you feel safe?
-No, i'm very certain. I've loved you for a long time. The feeling safe,that's just a bonus. ~John & Arianna

Bernadette Marie

#10. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]

Stephen Hawking

#11. You shouldn't rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. There's an extra storey between the second and third floors of the Cloisters. (Penny calls it "bonus content.")

Rainbow Rowell

#13. It's not just about young people - there are films being made that deal with women getting older. That's a huge bonus, and here in America, that's a huge step forward.

Lesley Manville

#14. Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.

Hugh Jackman

#15. It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.

Venus Williams

#16. There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass.

Etgar Keret

#17. I love sports. The spirit and the fight you put to win a game. It is just like life except that life is not a game. There is no "retry" option in real life and you don't get to get a bonus life.

Abdullah Abu Snaineh

#18. Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

Iain Duncan Smith

#19. The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.

Phil Donahue

#20. Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.

Randy Schekman

#21. The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

Aaron Neville

#22. The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.

Mallory Ortberg

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Parveen Kumar

#24. There is no secret language, Future Sam, that you have to speak in order to talk to someone you like. You just talk to them. Bonus

Lara Avery

#25. Well, I got better after this, and my entire family really did appreciate it. Usually, they're resentful of movies that I go off and make, but this one had a bonus attached. But yeah, she had no breath.

Meryl Streep

#26. I have no chips on my shoulder. I like to be constructive. As I have said, I have inspired many persons to take up photography. As a matter of fact, I inspire myself. (When I take a good picture I give myself a bonus.).

Weegee

#27. No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.

Parminder Nagra

#28. Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.

Suze Orman

#29. No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration."
I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever.

Kevin Hearne

#30. Despite the ever-increasing responsibilities, there are no promotions in motherhood. You'll never get an annual review followed by a fat bonus and a healthy raise.

Lela Davidson

#31. When I registered for econ, I had no idea that I'd be in for this level of reality-show drama. It's like a big fat bonus.

Tammara Webber

#32. I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.

Pankaj Mishra

#33. Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.

Simon Sinek

#34. I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that you get paid is just a bonus

Katheryn Winnick

#35. Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Elizabeth Pena

#36. At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year in salary and bonus; after 10 years, you could expect a million or more. I had 60 grand of university debt, and my parents had no retirement. I needed that money.

Philipp Meyer

#37. Reminded myself: the ones you don't like are a bonus. They can't fool you as easy as the ones you do.

Tana French

#38. My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

G. Willow Wilson

#39. You bite the bullet and get on with it. One can't expect to be happy all the time ... You expect to be happy, as if it's a right. It's not a right. It's a bonus. The cherry on the cake.

Santa Montefiore

#40. The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.

David Simon

#41. These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.

John Lindsay

#42. The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

Billy Zane

#43. This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#44. I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point ... ?
Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked.
Expecto Patronum!
The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall.

J.K. Rowling

#45. Being considered a fashion star is wonderful. It's definitely a bonus thing.

Lupita Nyong'o

#46. I told myself over and over again, do it for its images, for the pleasure you get out of it. Do it for your friends If you get more, that's a bonus.

Patricia Rozema

#47. Style advice? Always wear clothes ... that are ... clean, for starters. An added bonus if it is pressed as well. Unless you are wearing clothes that are supposed to look rumpled.

Steve Carell

#48. If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

Freeman Dyson

#49. It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.

Jack Hyles

#50. Nice guy. Salt of the earth. The stick up his ass is just a bonus." "Let us not make light of the rectally challenged." Niko disposed of the mug with disdain, wiping his hand thoroughly on a towel afterward. "The condition is no doubt congenital. Completely beyond his control.

Rob Thurman

#51. To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.

Wayne Coyne

#52. Again, Saburo Tominaga once went to the Shirakawa Prefectural Office to cash his brother Morikuni's bonus bond and, unwilling to touch paper currency defiled with a foreign-style design, carried it home between chopsticks.

Yukio Mishima

#53. I have always thought of the moths and butterflies as a bonus to the flowers, as though Nature were admiring her own work.

Roger Deakin

#54. On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.

John Lanchester

#55. I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

Bo Derek

#56. If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

Geddy Lee

#57. Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!

Carlos Wallace

#58. But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

Sally Pearson

#59. I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

Samantha Stosur

#60. Lights burn on the upper floors, traders and analysts letting commerce take precedence over family one more time in a desperate attempt to add to a Christmas bonus they won't have time to spend.

Nick Harkaway