Quotes About Nickels

#1. No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.

David Hallberg

#2. Scott Hall is a great wrestler, a better friend, but more than anything a very caring human being. Scott never passed a homeless person or someone in need without opening his wallet. This is a guy that has the first two nickels he ever made.

Kevin Nash

#3. For the loss of the team, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer snap poll found that 40 percent of readers blamed Schultz the most, followed by 15 percent for Nickels and 11 percent for Bennett.

David Holt

#4. Change doesn't come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat.

Toni Sorenson

#5. The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me.

Stephen Gaghan

#6. You're broke, eh?
I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

Raymond Chandler

#7. Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.

Dexter Palmer

#8. Down came the dry flakes, fat enough and heavy enough to crash like nickels on stone. It always surprised him, how quiet it was. Not like rain, but like a secret.

Toni Morrison

#9. We used to trust in God. I think it was in 1863 that some genius suggested that it be put upon the gold and silver coins which circulated among the rich. They didn't put it on the nickels and coppers because they didn't think the poor folks had any trust in God.

Mark Twain

#10. (talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.

Bruce Springsteen

#11. You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Flip Wilson

#12. 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

#13. George Halas throws nickels around like man hole covers.

Mike Ditka

#14. Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

Sam Snead

#15. I'm very interested in everything. The words fell with a hollow flatness on to Jay Cee's desk, like so many wooden nickels.

Sylvia Plath

#16. The truth is, I would do anything for Alan Rudolph. If he asked me to stand on my head and spit wooden nickels, I would. I love him. I loved working with him.

Lesley Ann Warren

#17. If I had a nickel for every time I'd wished I possessed the power to alter another person's mind, I'd be knee deep in nickels.

Mayandree Michel

#18. Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.

Roy Orbison

#19. Like a handful of nickels in a batch of bread dough this could be kneaded from place to place but never removed.

Neal Stephenson

#20. I hate nickels; they're quarter impersonators.

Gary Gulman

#21. 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

#22. A nickel is not worth a penny more.

Yogi Berra

#23. I took some sense and made a nickel of it.

Drake

#24. I've been readen th Bible an a hunten God fer a long while-off an on- but it ain't so easy as picken up a nickel off the floor.

Harriette Simpson Arnow

#25. Will still produce considerable overlook and shadowing on adjoining streets.

Greg Nickels

#26. They can't save enough without fundamentally altering the line, and for that, you have to go back to the voters.

Greg Nickels

#27. You cannot get one nickel for commercial flying.

Inglis M. Uppercu

#28. A delay does not solve the revenue problem,

Greg Nickels

#29. I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.

Gene Simmons

#30. Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.

John Mayer

#31. Eat, drink and love ... the rest is not worth a nickel

Lord Byron

#32. It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

Mark Twain

#33. I strongly believe that we are not put on this Earth just to accumulate victories and trophies and avoid failures; but rather to be whittled and sandpapered down until what's left is who we truly are

William G. Nickels

#34. You know if I had nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden.

Jon Stewart

#35. We have had no specific or credible threats, but we don't take that as any kind of comfort. We know we need to be ready and we know that, that vigilance is the price of freedom.

Greg Nickels

#36. Has given me no choice but to advocate for the termination of this project.

Greg Nickels

#37. We know that Seattle is mentioned frequently ... a computer was found in Afghanistan showing pictures of Seattle-area landmarks. So we are in constant contact with the FBI and with other federal authorities,

Greg Nickels

#38. We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.

Greg Nickels

#39. It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.

Greg Nickels