Top 100 Quotes About Dime
#1. Sure, food stamps are occasionally misused, but anyone familiar with business knows that the abuse of food subsidies is far greater in the corporate suite. Every time an executive wines and dines a hot date on the corporate dime, the average taxpayer helps foot the bill.
Nicholas Kristof
#2. When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.
Percy Sledge
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.
John Lahr
#6. If I had a nickel for every dime I lost I'd be twice as broke.
L.G. Space
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.
Walt Whitman
#11. You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.
Eric Thomas
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.
Don Rickles
#15. Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
#16. No," moaned Tom in despair. "School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer's even over! Ruin half the vacation!
Ray Bradbury
#17. It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
Lee Atwater
#18. 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
#19. We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!
Richard Trumka
#20. Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
Phyllis McGinley
#21. That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.
Bruce Springsteen
#22. The Universe doesn't know the difference between a dime and a million. If you refuse the dime, the Universe thinks you don't want money, so you collapse your chances.
Stuart Wilde
#23. Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.
Robert H. Schuller
#24. We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.
Arne Duncan
#25. Most people early achieve and later intensify a tendency to process new and disconfirming information so that any original conclusion remains intact. They become people of whom Philip Wylie observed: "You couldn't 't squeeze a dime between what they already know and what they will never learn."
Charlie Munger
#26. And it made his heart shake to hear these things in the street or bus or dime store, the uninventable poetry, inside the pain, of what people say.
Don DeLillo
#27. If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.
Bo Burnham
#28. Excuses cost a dime and that's why the poor could afford a lot of it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#29. I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.
Bryan Adams
#30. Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Vince Lombardi
#31. Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.
Mary Kay Ash
#32. I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.
Dennis Kozlowski
#33. There were no violins or warning bells when I pulled the janitor's theme off the top of the stack and set it before me, no sense that my little life was about to change. But we never know, do we? Life turns on a dime.
Stephen King
#34. I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over ...
Mary Lasswell
#35. I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.
Dean Wareham
#36. Right now we're both yard sales of emotions. A penny for pain. A dime for bitterness. A quarter for grief. A dollar for silence. It binds us together, but I don't want him to pay the price for the parts of me that are used and broken.
Courtney C. Stevens
#37. Thank you. You're a kind person. It doesn't cost anything to be kind. People forget. Kindness doesn't cost a dime.
Allan Wolf
#38. A nickle ain't worth a dime anymore!
Yogi Berra
#39. I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!
Arthur Miller
#40. Life changes. It's usually in the blink of an eye. One minute everything's fine, if not stagnant; then, it's not. But your character's not defined by what happens to you but by how you respond to those emotionally significant events. Who will you become when your life turns on a dime?
Bobby Cole
#41. Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.
Jerry Only
#42. Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.
Rita Hayworth
#43. I wasn't paid a dime for my track career. But participating in the Olympics gave me the opportunity to learn about different cultures; it made me a better person. I wouldn't trade the time I competed for anything.
Wyomia Tyus
#44. But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can't afford to see no doctors? Don't make no sense. People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them takin her cells, now we don't get a dime.
Rebecca Skloot
#45. Life turns on a dime, and when it does, it turns fast.
Stephen King
#46. But I had long since learned from Wolfe that the corner the light doesn't reach is the one the dime rolled to.
Rex Stout
#47. If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
Natalie Wood
#48. There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out.
Skrillex
#49. The part about me being an 'okay sorcerer'? 'Not great'? No I believe I missed that.
-Lucas Cortez (Dime Store Magic)
Kelley Armstrong
#50. I called every day to see how she was doin,
Every time that I called her, it seemed somethin was brewin.
I called her on my dime, picked up, and then I called again,
I said, 'Yo, who was that?'
'Oh, he's just a friend.'
Biz Markie
#51. My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.
Don Rickles
#52. You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.
Lisa Kudrow
#53. When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.
Buddy Guy
#54. I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.
Carroll Shelby
#55. Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.
Andy Rooney
#56. A real tank now costs about a million dollars, while a hallucinated one amounts to less than one-hundredth of a cent per person, or centispecter per spectator. A destroyer costs a dime. Today you could fit the whole arsenal of the United States inside a single truck.
Stanislaw Lem
#57. I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.
Michael Imperioli
#58. Guys willing to hold your dick are a dime a dozen; save your hearts for the one who wants to hold your hand.
Diane Adams
#59. In 1945, when the male soldiers started coming back home from Europe, she and all the other women pilots that had served as WASPs during the war were unceremoniously told to go home and never received a dime or even thanks from the government.
Fannie Flagg
#60. Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving.
Smokey Robinson
#61. Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.
Franklin P. Adams
#62. He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.
Bob Dylan
#64. I have $100 billion ... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime ...
Bill Gates
#65. Drunken people make me nervous. I dislike their predictable unpredictability - the emotions that are so intense and seem to turn on a dime.
Amy A. Bartol
#66. Can I brush your hair? she asked as she led the way, her disposition doing a 180 on a dime. Kids. Can't live with 'em. Can't eat 'em for lunch.
Darynda Jones
#67. And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you've got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.
Bob Balaban
#68. In no way did God want me to settle for one of the typical "jerks" who were a dime a dozen. He wanted me to save myself for a man who had His very nature and character within him. And He wanted me to trust Him enough to bring that special man to me in His perfect time.
Leslie Ludy
#69. It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.
Chad Kroeger
#70. You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.
Barack Obama
#71. In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.
Lilly Ledbetter
#72. There were pictures on the walls, all of them dime-store prints of Jesus. In all of them Jesus had blue eyes and wore pale blue robes and had long blond hair and a neat blond beard. He looked more like a Malibu surfer than a Jew from two thousand years ago.
Lee Child
#73. Murdered? Somebody murdered him?" Palmer was agog. A thin, soft man with a pitted nose and a bald, bumpy egg-shaped head dotted with dime-sized freckles, he was wearing jeans and a T-shirt that said, "NSA, Our Customer Service Pledge: You Talk, We Listen.
John Sandford
#74. My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
Quincy Jones
#75. Any of Bette Midler's concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the audience in the palm of her hands at all times and can switch emotions on a dime: Great singer, great actress, great comedian - fearless.
Bryan Batt
#77. You see a nigga won't give a good girl shit yet he will spend his last dime trying to make a bad girl his bitch. He will go broke trying to trap some whore into a monogamous relationship
Crystal Evans
#78. Those who prosper by thievery, thuggery, or by ruining another, have chosen to live on the devil's dime.
Bailey Bristol
#79. I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.
Paul Simon
#80. The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazine so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on ... This was the greatest surprise for everyone.
Max Delbruck
#81. When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.
Seal
#82. Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.
Dave Ramsey
#83. I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.
Evel Knievel
#85. As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.
Marian Wright Edelman
#86. The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Akash Lal Karotia
#87. Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000, less than a quarter-million dollars a year, then you will not see one dime's worth of tax increase.
Barack Obama
#88. There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney.
Virgil Goode
#91. Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?
Stephen King
#92. They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to my local library and get just abut any book in the world - and I don't have to pay a dime!! It's amazing! The library is truly the greatest invention of our civilization.
Dan Gutman
#93. To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.
Rob Gronkowski
#94. I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.
Carly Pope
#95. I was selling real estate at the time, in Pacific Palisades, California, so imagine that: getting a note and a bottle of champagne from Jack Nicholson when I'd barely made a dime as an actor. It really kept me going.
Kurt Fuller
#97. I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy.
Mr. Krabs
#98. From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between ... and sometimes in the same moment.
David Hyde Pierce
#99. My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.
Charlene Weir
#100. Apologies are a dime a dozen. I don't need an apology. What I need is sincerity.
J.R. Richardson
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