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When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life. -- Gloria Swanson
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. -- William Ralph Inge
I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness. -- Annie Besant
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. -- George Carlin
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. -- Frank Zappa
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. -- Harold Geneen
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. -- Linus Torvalds
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun. -- Jerry Seinfeld
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. -- John F. Kennedy
All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too. -- Michael Moore
I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me. -- Maya Angelou
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. -- Adam Smith
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion. -- Carl Hiaasen
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. -- Ayn Rand
As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism. -- Patrick Stump
Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking. -- Mehmet Oz
I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them. -- Rick Baker
We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience. -- Michael Bay
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him. -- Scott Anderson
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. -- Allen Boyd
You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college. -- Sarah Shahi
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. -- Lionel Messi
Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers. -- Don Yaeger
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. -- Gloria Steinem
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. -- Lois Lowry
Genius is born-not paid -- Oscar Wilde
Ambition's debt is paid. -- William Shakespeare
Rebel, renegade, must stay paid. -- KRS-One
Poets are born, not paid. -- Addison Mizner
Berg paid his way with stories. -- Nicholas Dawidoff
I get paid to not laugh. -- Julia Barr
24/7, 365 days, everybody gettin' paid Go crazy! -- Kanye West
What the hell, I paid my dues. -- Fuzzy Zoeller
I go wherever my fare is paid. -- Quentin Crisp
A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave. -- Curt Flood
Teachers need to be paid like professionals. -- Geoffrey Canada
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Worry is interest paid before it's due. -- Zig Ziglar
It's never paid to bet against America. -- Warren Buffett
Censorship is advertising paid by the government. -- Federico Fellini
I played 100 shows before I got paid -- Dizzy Wright
You don't get paid for being brave! -- William Vacchiano
You work, you get paid, you drink. -- Bill Murray
I like the idea of company-paid dividends. -- Walter Schloss
Once you add value, you get paid -- Tim Gordon
I'm paid to preach not to practice. -- Isaac
Of course, it has never paid much. -- Molly Ivins
It's your money. You paid for it. -- George W. Bush
I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime. -- Thomas Peterffy
Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. -- Francis Bacon
I never ever paid attention to any election. -- Young Jeezy
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. -- Ronald Reagan
Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience. -- Paul Morley
People have paid for content. They always have. -- Barry Diller
Girls like well-built boys. Women love well-paid men. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
R-E-L-A-X. I'm still getting paid millions of dollars. -- Aaron Rodgers
Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale. -- Honor Blackman
I believe very strongly in paid sick leave. -- Carolyn Maloney
Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods. -- Ambrose Bierce
For hostile word let hostile word be paid. -- Aeschylus
I love getting paid to ride a horse. -- Anson Mount
Hard work has paid off a whole lot. -- Vince Young
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. -- Aristotle
I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
I've always showed up. If I got paid. -- Jerry Lee Lewis
I went to prison, I paid my bill. -- George Michael
I'm cold gettin' paid cause Rick said so. -- LL Cool J
A gift much expected is paid, not given. -- George Herbert
I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues. -- Zoe Kravitz
For the same work, dudes get paid more -- Rachel Maddow
Provide more service than what you get paid for -- Les Brown
The telecom industry pretends like it's not getting paid. -- Chad Hurley
[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world. -- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me. -- Lil Wayne
I'm getting paid to wake up America every morning! -- Ainsley Earhardt
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. -- Henry George
I get paid to make out with the hunks! -- Kelly Ripa
I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra, -- Gypsy Rose Lee
If time is money/ I'm an hour past paid -- Lil Wayne
Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered. -- Nachman of Breslov
I haven't paid for anything since I became famous. -- Melissa de la Cruz
And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention -- Bret Easton Ellis
Envy was just the tax you paid on success. -- David Nicholls
Work is the price which is paid for reputation. -- Baltasar Gracian
People don't need to be paid to be motivated. -- Jonah Berger
Give me some credit for the hell I've paid. -- Shawn Colvin
...to be paid for one's joy is to steal. -- Mark Helprin
Never forget that I am paid for my troubles! -- Hank Stuever
I expect to get paid if I do something. -- Evan Goldberg
I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race. -- Charles Kennedy
There will be killing till the score is paid. -- Homer
The most fun is getting paid to learn things. -- Diane Sawyer
The church has paid a terrible price for statistics! -- Leonard Ravenhill
My account is paid up. Your records are wrong. -- Jon Jones
I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life. -- Sting
A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding. -- Mason Cooley
Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid. -- Dan Simmons
miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free. -- Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
We have paid the police for information in the past. -- Rebekah Brooks
Many people in management are being paid to produce waste. -- W. Edwards Deming
Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness. -- William Godwin
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. -- George Washington
You get paid consistent with your ability to solve problems. -- Ron Willingham
Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain. -- Ovid
And this was the price you paid for sleeping together. -- Ernest Hemingway
Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right. -- Donald A. Norman
I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid. -- Kanye West
I do a job. I get paid. I go home. -- Maureen Stapleton
I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off! -- Matt Groening
There are some debts that can't be paid with money. -- Steven J. Carroll
National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented. -- Terence McKenna
I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly. -- Linus Torvalds
Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission -- Dave Ramsey
I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique. -- Steven Cojocaru
Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood. -- Victoria Aveyard
To all my critics, you get paid to be negative. -- Randy Moss
I get paid for what most kids get punished for. -- Jerry Lewis
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price. -- Rabindranath Tagore

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