Top 100 Quotes About A Dime
#1. I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.
Peter B. Lewis
#2. I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underpriviledged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary.
Jules Feiffer
#3. I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
Barack Obama
#4. Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different ... to think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson
#5. I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.
Kate Braverman
#6. Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!
Brian Tracy
#7. Rich men in hell are a dime a dozen.
Will Bevis
#8. Some lady at a bridge party somewhere started the rumor that to test the honesty of a cleaning woman you leave little rosebud ashtrays around with loose change in them, here and there. My solution to this is to always add a few pennies, even a dime.
Lucia Berlin
#9. I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education - but, um, not a dime.
Whit Stillman
#10. Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.
Robert Dieffenbach
#11. She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged.
Stephen King
#12. The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
Andy Stern
#13. There is no reprieve when you have a broken mind; cease-fires are rare. Even on good days,
you know everything could change on a dime. Fear is your constant shadow
Barbara Claypole White
#14. If I had a dime for everytime that I was wrong, I'd be broke.
Stephen Colbert
#15. I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding to the indignity of relief.
Phil Ochs
#16. Calico Kitty
My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime...
Muse
#17. Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
Anzia Yezierska
#18. I want people to be inspired to do what's in front of them. If you won't give a dime out of a dollar, don't talk to a billionaire about giving their money away because if you don't give a dime out of a dollar, I can promise you, you're not going to give a 100 million out of a billion. It's a lie.
Tony Robbins
#19. And as I looked, it became very clear that this five-and-ten-cent ship was in some way connected with human pretensions. This suffocating interior of a dime-store ship was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal contributions to the universe.
Aldous Huxley
#20. It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.
Molly Ivins
#21. Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.
Wil Zeus
#22. Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine
Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime
Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time
I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.
Frank Sinatra
#23. I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime
Immortal Technique
#25. We want men here, not just players. Players are a dime a dozen
Tom Izzo
#26. Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#27. by structuring it in your life as a musical diary or log, you can control your feelings and change them on a dime if you need to.
Chris Hardwick
#28. New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
Dean Kamen
#29. People want what's best for them, and they can switch on a dime, because there's always a new disruptor disrupting the last disruptor. So companies should just strive to keep changing and adapting to their customers' needs.
Ben Chestnut
#30. Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.
Leonard Ravenhill
#31. New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.
Art Garfunkel
#32. Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find.
Charlie Finley
#33. Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.
Dean Wareham
#34. Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.
Earl Blaik
#35. A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
#36. Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort, nobody can judge effort. Because effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.
Ray Lewis
#37. If you had a dime for every excuse you made, I wouldn't have to be here right now.
Jon Taffer
#38. If I had a dime for every time I heard someone say that they're tired of a genre (zombies) because it's only a fad, I'd be rich. #DeadRising
Ace Antonio Hall
#39. I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.
Ridley Scott
#40. Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.
Richard Kind
#41. Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring ... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.
Eddie Guerrero
#42. Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!
Scott Adams
#43. In my personal life I've made a lot of compromises. I don't live comfortably. I've lived out of a suitcase for the last 15 years. I have lived without a dime to my name, for a very long time.
Rie Rasmussen
#44. When you're excited about what you do, and nobody gotta give you a dime, that's next level.
Eric Thomas
#45. Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn't cost a dime, the other will tax your soul.
T.F. Hodge
#46. You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.
Woody Hayes
#47. If youre not living awake to the fact the life can change in a dime, then youre living asleep ...
Kristine Carlson
#48. I've never made a dime from a record sale in the history of my record deal. I've been very happy with my sales, and certainly my audience has been very supportive. I make a living going out and playing shows.
Lyle Lovett
#49. I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.
Gene Simmons
#50. It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.
Kim Dotcom
#51. All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.
Jello Biafra
#52. I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
Bela Lugosi
#53. Christian allegories are a dime a dozen. You can find them in any story, if you look hard enough. Even Harry Potter.
Jason Krumbine
#54. Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.
Hunter S. Thompson
#55. Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've been to buy them in seasons before But have thought of them merely as seeds; But it flashed through my mind as I took them this time, "You purchased a miracle here for a dime."
Edgar Guest
#56. Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.
Andy Stern
#57. I raise my glass to the Awful Truth,
Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth,
Except to say it isn't worth a dime,
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice,
And it's once for the Devil and once for Christ
Leonard Cohen
#58. I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.
Robert Kiyosaki
#59. Sometimes crowds start out not liking someone but then they shift and love them. Or vice versa. It can shift on a dime.
Ted Alexandro
#60. Come on, Eden, don't be naive. Demonic children are a dime a dozen in Netherworld. Need I mention Children of the Corn? Damien? Justine Bieber?
Michelle Rowen
#61. Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Yip Harburg
#62. It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime.
Drake
#63. What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
Dennis Miller
#64. IF I HAD a dime for every time I've heard "We're all going to die" or "I'll kill you," I could afford a better apartment. You can only listen to so many threats of destruction, doom, or death before you start tuning them all out. So I followed the wolf out of the building, then went home.
J.C. Nelson
#65. I kept replaying it. That moment when you let me. Couldn't add and subtract worth a dime. I'm sure I overpaid the man.
C.D. Reiss
#66. There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Jonathan Swift
#67. The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
Wendell Berry
#68. I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.
Little Richard
#70. I've never seen a guy change his position so many times, so fast, on a dime.
Rudy Giuliani
#71. I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit, while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes.
Barack Obama
#72. In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.
Donald Hall
#73. That's right, buddy. You bought yourself a dime root beer this afternoon. You also put Carolyn Poulin back in a wheelchair.
Stephen King
#74. The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
Beth Henley
#75. I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.
Rick Rubin
#76. You spend your TIME to make a DIME. You lose your HEALTH to make your WEALTH, but at the end it is FUNNY because you leave back all your MONEY.
R.v.m.
#77. If I only had a nickel; I'd spend it on a dime.
Tim Wayne
#78. The world turns on a dime, the same now as it always has - which is to say, money makes the world go 'round. It's also what makes the world go spinning out of control.
Joe Murray
#79. Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.
Joe Pantoliano
#80. A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.
Russell Baker
#81. It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools - so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher is supposed to say if a kid asks about those four words on a dime - 'In God We Trust.' Or maybe that's why they aren't being taught how to read these days.
Ronald Reagan
#82. So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.
Mariah Carey
#83. The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
Laura Miller
#84. I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.
George Eastman
#85. Ladies be seated, a laugh doesn't cost you a dime.
Johnny Olson
#86. Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.
Douglas Leone
#87. Nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.
Woody Hayes
#88. Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
Jodi Picoult
#89. Being thankful is also the law of increase. What we give thanks for is automatically multiplied. If we have only a dime and give thanks for it, it will soon be increased. If we resent our position and dwell upon what we lack, that is exactly what we get back.
Robert Scheid
#90. I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.
John Lahr
#91. I don't need the money. I don't care if I make a dime on this. Let me make a good record.
Miley Cyrus
#92. If a penny can bring luck and a dime can grant a wish, how come my eleven cents hasn't bought me what I need.
Kasie West
#93. Ladies and gentlemen, attention, please!
Come in close where everyone can see!
I got a tale to tell, it isn't gonna cost a dime!
(And if you believe that,
we're gonna get along just fine.)
Stephen King
#94. And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.
Walt Whitman
#95. You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.
Eric Thomas
#96. TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.
Hedda Hopper
#97. Evening attend two "fandangos." Girls not very pretty but exceedingly graceful. [You] pay a dime for a figure and refreshments foryour doxy, who instead of eating prudently stores her cakes, etc., in a basket to be taken home for the family.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#98. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.
Don Rickles
#99. Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
#100. Come back anytime, son. I'm thinking about lowering the price on the large." "To a dime?" He grinned. Like his son's, it was easy and open. "Now you're cooking with gas.
Stephen King
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