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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. -- Bill Watterson
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. -- Gordon Parks
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. -- Marilyn Monroe
The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day. -- Samuel Gompers
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
Cents are the most universally used interval measure. -- Alexander John Ellis
What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar -- Thomas R. Marshall
Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache. -- Steven Morrissey
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. -- Alexander John Ellis
I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business. -- Loretta Lynn
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent. -- Mike Tyson
I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it. -- Patsy Cline
Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent. -- Steve Irwin
A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times, -- Andrew Denton
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built -- Daniel Libeskind
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance. -- Natalie Portman
The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product. -- Martin Feldstein
There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. -- David Ogilvy
When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars. -- Paul Lynde
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. -- Luther Burbank
Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas. -- will.i.am
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
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves. -- Jerry Garcia
I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. -- Michael F. Easley
We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy. -- Johannes Rau
The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name -- Rob Zombie
The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun. -- Burton Silverman
Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. -- Charles Goodyear
Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money. -- Lilly Ledbetter
This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it? -- Spencer Tracy
If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny. -- Steven Wright
I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents. -- Manny Pacquiao
In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar. -- Billie Jean King
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money. -- David Boies
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt. -- Mickey Spillane
I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it. -- Josh Holloway
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
Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues. -- Muddy Waters
The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name. -- Rob Zombie
I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days. -- Tiny Tim
I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.' -- Elmore Leonard
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
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
When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it. -- Wayne Dyer
You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles. -- Scott Adams
At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week. -- Lou Holtz
My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
You fool! You're 30 cents away from having a quarter! -- Robin Harris
Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage. -- Louis Rukeyser
Success can not be measured in dollars and cents. -- Adam LiVecchi
Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. -- Muddy Waters
We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
All we try to do is buy a dollar for 40 cents. -- Peter Cundill
You must be poor. why? cuz ur not making any cents! -- Lisi Harrison
I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world. -- Henry Ford
I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents. -- Marguerite Moreau
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Women get 77 cents on the dollar that men get for the same job. -- Penny Pritzker
Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt. -- Tom Robbins
For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies. -- Bo Burnham
We're here to make people feel like a million dollars, not two cents. -- Marion D. Hanks
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. -- Mary Oliver
Federal Officer: The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton. -- Clint Johnson
The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change. -- Jennifer Sodini
Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account. -- Lilly Ledbetter
I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance. -- Steve Jobs
Twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and three cents in coins, from six centuries. -- Kami Garcia
Less than ten cents on the dollar in the Clinton Foundation has gone to charitable causes. -- Mike Pence
Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents. -- Wil Wheaton
Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them. -- Will Rogers
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. -- Martin H. Fischer
I bought stuff at 3.5 cents once and I thought it can't go down to zero. It can. -- Peter Cundill
I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same. -- Mark Twain
I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day. -- Stewart Udall
I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. -- Henry David Thoreau
Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day. -- Madonna Ciccone
Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound. -- Charles A. Dana
Contribute to No More Lies Dot Org. Every dollar you donate will bring us 75 cents closer to the truth. -- Jarod Kintz
I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent -- Tupac Shakur
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? -- Peg Bracken
Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive! -- Maurice Duplessis
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men? -- Naomi Wolf
I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please. -- Charles M. Schulz
My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir. -- Vladimir Nabokov
College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents... and bounce it. -- Henry Cho
Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport. -- Christofer Drew
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? -- George Carlin
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
I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game. -- W. C. Fields
At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something. -- Joshua Greenberg
I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year. -- Ben Feldman
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
...you must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket. -- Marcel Tabuteau
If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough? -- Jon Lovitz
Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side. -- Peter Cundill
The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count. -- Barbara Mikulski
Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense -- Roger Waters
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
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
The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents. -- W. C. Fields
Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax on cigarettes 158 percent - 62 cents per pack. -- Bob Beauprez
money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth. -- Olivia Mellan
The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation. -- Coleman Sellers II
If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man? -- Warren Farrell
If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level? -- Warren Farrell
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face. -- Liza Minnelli
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
There's a very big difference between negotiating to borrow billions of dollars on behalf of MCA and negotiating to borrow 28 cents in connection with making independent pictures. -- Sidney Sheinberg
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men. -- Herbert Hoover
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
The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder. -- Charles Comiskey
I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else. -- Mary Kay Ash
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
Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time. -- Larry Wall
(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
If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market. -- Ilana Mercer
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
Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents. -- E. L. Konigsburg

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