Quotes About Cents

#1. The difference between two cents and one cent is small. But the difference between one cent and zero is huge!

Dan Ariely

#2. A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Gene Fowler

#3. I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

Marguerite Moreau

#4. Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.

Louis Rukeyser

#5. My dear, dear girl [ ... ] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire
a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron
which we cannot get back.

Thomas Wolfe

#6. Federal Officer: "The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton.

Clint Johnson

#7. A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.

Elizabeth Bard

#8. Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.

Charles Bukowski

#9. Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that.

Selena

#10. It is not possible that it is God's will that women are making 77 cents on a dollar.

Thomas Perez

#11. They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.

David Lee Roth

#12. There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.
Bomar

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.

Mordecai Richler

#14. One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'

Trent Reznor

#15. Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.

Madonna Ciccone

#16. Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

Gary Johnson

#17. He's meeting his girl now, a girl not much older than 14. A five-and-ten-cents store Cleopatra, a four letter word.

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. I do not know the needs of a god or of another world ... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.

Helen H. Gardener

#19. Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.

Christofer Drew

#20. This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?

Spencer Tracy

#21. They wanna know why, I'm so fly, a girl asked me for a ring and I put one around her whole eye I'm looking nothing like ya poppa, I wouldn't give a chick ten cents, to put cheese on a whopper.

Big L

#22. I bought stuff at 3.5 cents once and I thought it can't go down to zero. It can.

Peter Cundill

#23. You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#24. I reckon I'll be at the beck and call of folks with money all my life, but thank God I won't ever again have to be at the beck and call of every son of a bitch who's got two cents to buy a stamp.

William Faulkner

#25. I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice,

Richard M. Nixon

#26. I refuse to dispense chewable advice for free. I'm not a bubblegum machine. No, my fees are 25 cents higher.

Jarod Kintz

#27. This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.

Langston Hughes

#28. Robert Johnson invented the blues, at midnight, at a crossroads, after selling his soul to the devil. Dorothy Parker invented amusing women, at 2 p.m., in New York's best cocktail bar, after tipping a busboy 50 cents for a martini. It's hard not to draw conclusions as to which is the brighter sex.

Caitlin Moran

#29. People will pay for great services. They said they wouldn't pay 99 cents for a song but they did. We've always believed that. When you go to work, you don't work for free; nobody works for free. Nobody can say, "I want to work for free." Nobody says that.

Eddy Cue

#30. A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#31. In 1951, Aerojet provided an employee cafeteria that featured roast prime rib of beef (seventy-five cents) on Thursdays, New York steaks (eighty-five cents) on Wednesdays and lobster (seventy-five cents) on Friday.

Maryellen Burns

#32. It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Stephen Leacock

#33. Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

Charles A. Dana

#34. You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

Jorge Luis Borges

#35. Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

Lilly Ledbetter

#36. Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.

Wil Wheaton

#37. We will stop 99 per cent of the attacks. But one per cent of attacks might get through and that is what I am saying.

Rahul Gandhi

#38. Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

Tom Robbins

#39. I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

John Paul DeJoria

#40. Sometimes I ask myself questions... Sometimes I ask myself, is this your real life or is this just a pilot film? Is my life a thirty-nine week series or is it a special?"
"Whatever it is, your ratings are down... Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

#41. Customers to whom he'd sold three dollars and six cents' worth of gas the night of the Holcomb tragedy.

Truman Capote

#42. For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

Charles Kuralt

#43. There have always been and there always will be the peripheral sideline activities which are a form of entertainment, which is to say you pay a couple of cents and you see something freakish. That is what reality TV is.

Mike Leigh

#44. Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

Bill Watterson

#45. In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Martin H. Fischer

#46. I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per walk, per dog, and that accumulated quickly. I bought a camera, a telescope. I taught myself astrophotography. I did all this.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#47. My dad came over to the house ... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children ... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

Bill Cosby

#48. To balance my own checkbook each month, I simply record whatever is necessary in the following manner: '37 cents to cover embezzlement by somebody at the bank.

Teresa Bloomingdale

#49. If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

Mickey Gilley

#50. (S)cents connects us to a past we can't always see, that seems lost but can so easily be conjured up and found.

M.J. Rose

#51. To make dollars from cents you have to have sense.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#52. I've tried to be a better person ... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried ... "
"Nice try ... Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

#53. Hack, hack, hack. I wouldn't pay twenty-five cents to spit on a Georgia O'Keeffe painting. And I think she's a horrible person, too. I know her ... So arrogant, so sure of herself. I'm sure she's carrying a dildo in her purse.

Truman Capote

#54. Fifty cents a touch, right? This oughta cover me for a while

J. Sterling

#55. For every dollar you spend on food, 19 cents goes to the actual food, while the other 81 cents goes to marketing and packaging.

Cary McNeal

#56. I think I know what's wrong with you ... Walk up onto that pitcher's mound ... Does your stomach hurt now?"
"Yes! Ow! Ooo! Yes!"
"All right, now come down off the mound ... There ... Has it stopped hurting?"
"Yes ... Yes, I think it has!"
"There's your trouble ... Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

#57. Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

George Foreman

#58. I never write metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

Mark Twain

#59. The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.

John Edwards

#60. Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you.

Suze Orman

#61. Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand

Mike Parry

#62. Making money takes time, so when we shop, we're really spending time. The real cost of living isn't measured in dollars and cents but in the hours and minutes we must work to live.1

Charles Wheelan

#63. Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others.

Bob Burg

#64. The door refused to open. It said, Five cents, please.

Philip K. Dick

#65. If your company matches your 401(k) contribution, then no matter what, contribute to your 401(k) first. You put in a dollar, they put in 50 cents. It's an automatic 50 percent return on your money. You can't pass that up. I'd rather have the 50 percent than pay 32 percent interest on a credit card.

Suze Orman

#66. I knew things like if you had fifty cents, and you stole a dollar from the slow kid, you had a dollar fifty

Mishna Wolff

#67. Every cent that goes to research is changing the lives of patients and their families right now.

Robert Pattinson

#68. As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

James E. Faust

#69. As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

William Faulkner

#70. Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; ( ... )

Tracie McMillan

#71. Start reading. Your two cents will be worth much more.

Harsh Bhatnagar

#72. If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

Ed Koch

#73. [When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50.

Anna Howard Shaw

#74. On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

David Ogilvy

#75. (So I heard the boom of my fathr's rifle when he shot my best friend.) A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.(14)

Sherman Alexie

#76. Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

#77. Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad.

Donald Hall

#78. My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.

Tom Brokaw

#79. And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honour and justice by dollars and cents.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#80. From now on, if I ever get to burn another newspaper, I'll remember what a few cents can buy.

Alvah C. Bessie

#81. Getting picked gives you half that confidence, or 50 per cent of it

Glenn Frank

#82. 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

#83. I saw the head of NOW - National Organization of Women - saying that women still only make 70 cents on the dollar to every man. I'm not sure I'm going to believe that. Women are notoriously bad at math.

Bonnie McFarlane

#84. I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

Gordon Parks

#85. I was in touch with great souls who exalted flesh and spirit over dollars and cents, and to whom the thin wail of the starved slum child meant more than all the pomp and circumstance of commercial expansion and world empire.

Jack London

#86. Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

Arnold Bennett

#87. Baby names are a big debate in my family. Like true Colombian and Puerto Rican families, everybody and their mother is putting their two cents in - everything from Jose to Francisco to Victorio to Rain has been suggested.

Paula Garces

#88. I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.

Lachlan Murdoch

#89. I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

Esther Williams

#90. A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Loretta Lynn

#91. When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

George Carlin

#92. The fact is I am a compulsive reader. Thirty-five cents' worth of Gold Medal Original will put me right to sleep. Or Perry Mason. But I'll read the ads in an old Paris-Match that has been used to wrap herring before I'll do without.

Robert A. Heinlein

#93. True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

Orison Swett Marden

#94. volumes of Once Upon a Christmas Wish On SALE for only 99 cents each.

Samantha Bayarr

#95. Keep the change, Gin," McCallister said in a smarmy, mocking voice. "Consider it an early Christmas present."
"Aw," I drawled. "A whopping thirteen cents. You're too kind, Jonah. Why, you'd put Ebezener Scrooge to shame with your bighearted generosity.

Jennifer Estep

#96. I saw soda pop for $1.20 a six pack. That price messes with your head. You start thinking you're gonna sell soda pop. Suddenly I've got packs of pop with me. "Looking to buy some pop? 50 cents a can. It's not refrigerated because this is a half-assed commitment!"

Mitch Hedberg

#97. According to a recent survey, kids are receiving an average of 40 cents less from the tooth fairy. That's right, the economy is so bad that even make-believe people are feeling the pinch.

Conan O'Brien

#98. where you live is just geography. And you can't measure happiness in dollars and cents.

Tilly Bagshawe

#99. My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.

Vladimir Nabokov

#100. Steve Nicol never gives more than 120 per cent.

Kevin Keegan