Top 79 Quotes About Dimes
#1. The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.
Jon Taffer
#2. Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
Sam Snead
#3. Change doesn't come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat.
Toni Sorenson
#4. By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?
Calvin Trillin
#5. I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!
Frank Sinatra
#6. Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.
George Will
#7. Nickel for my thoughts, dimes in my bed. Quarters of the kush shape the lines in my head.
Drake
#8. Elmer Gantry never knew who set him thirty dimes, wrapped in a tract about holiness, nor why. But he found the sentiments in the tract useful in his sermon, and the thirty dimes he spent for lovely photographs of burlesque ladies.
Sinclair Lewis
#9. Playing two months or more in one city meant new songs all the time. If people paid their dimes to see and hear Sophie Tucker, they didn't want to hear the same songs over and over or see the same clothes.
Sophie Tucker
#10. But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus ... What will they all do if a cure comes out of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem.
Edgar Berman
#11. In giving to the March of Dimes, my fans can help support vital research and programs to help babies and their families.
Thalia
#12. I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.
Jackie Earle Haley
#13. Atticus said professional people were poor because the farmers were poor. As Maycomb County was farm country, nickels and dimes were hard to come by for doctors and dentists and lawyers.
Harper Lee
#14. I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store is crowded I'll even go so far as dropping change all over the floor, nickels and dimes skidding in every direction. All I want is not to die on a day I went unseen.
Nicole Krauss
#16. I wandered out like a haggard ghost, and there she was, Frisco - long, bleak streets with trolley wires all shrouded in fog and whiteness. I stumbled around a few blocks. Weird bums (Mission and Third) asked me for dimes in the dawn.
Jack Kerouac
#17. But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square
Puff Daddy
#18. I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.
Solomon Ortiz
#19. 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
#20. I feel so privileged as a mom to be part of a significant organization like the March of Dimes that works hard to prevent prematurity and helps moms to have healthy babies.
Thalia
#21. Then my abuelita booms out words, loud and clear. She always says the words should be round as dimes and as wild as blossoms blooming.
Tony Johnston
#22. Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.
Roy Orbison
#23. Lovers inside and horses ignoring the lovers. And the creek nearby. The willows. That was the scene. I forget the sky. The sky, let's say, was green and dotted with silly clouds that looked like dimes. Then
Richard Hugo
#24. No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
Sam Kean
#25. 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
#27. I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over ...
Mary Lasswell
#28. I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.
Dennis Kozlowski
#29. I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.
Bryan Adams
#30. If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.
Bo Burnham
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.
Don Rickles
#34. 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
#35. You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.
Eric Thomas
#36. I don't care anymore! I tried so hard! It's like the more I keep tryin' to be here the more people keep treating me like I don't belong here!
Randolph Randy Camp
#37. 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
#38. I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.
John Lahr
#39. When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.
Buddy Guy
#40. Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.
Andy Rooney
#41. It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a dime.
Steve Jobs
#42. [The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras.
William Henry Jackson
#43. Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.
Frank Herbert
#44. I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.
Dudley Moore
#45. 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
#48. There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney.
Virgil Goode
#50. You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.
Barack Obama
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#60. 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
#61. Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.
Leonard Ravenhill
#62. Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find.
Charlie Finley
#63. If you had a dime for every excuse you made, I wouldn't have to be here right now.
Jon Taffer
#64. If youre not living awake to the fact the life can change in a dime, then youre living asleep ...
Kristine Carlson
#65. I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.
Gene Simmons
#67. 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
#68. The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.
Ian Astbury
#69. Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. 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
#71. A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
Sam Walton
#72. These days, you've gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.
Gayle Forman
#73. Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Yip Harburg
#74. 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
#75. I've never seen a guy change his position so many times, so fast, on a dime.
Rudy Giuliani
#76. U.S. Government has said they are now going to go after the terrorist's electronic banking system. You know what they should do? They should transfer bin Laden's funds to my bank. They'd mess up his deposits, screw up his statement and nickel and dime him to death with service charges.
Jay Leno
#77. I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.
Rick Rubin
#78. 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
#79. I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.
George Eastman
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