Pennies Quotes - Page 6

• Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.

  Tim Allen

  Funny, Humor, Nephew

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• If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama's 2011 budget deficit.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Years, Pay

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• ...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Thinking, World And Love

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• And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

  Greg Mortenson

  Moving, Mountain, Our Society

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2006). “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time”, p.76, Penguin

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• The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people? Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

  Anne Frank

  Crazy, War, Artist

  Anne Frank (1989). “The diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Gossip, Long, Community

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• Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants. There'll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank; Anne shall have the keys To make a pretty noise with. Life must go on, Though good men die; Anne, eat your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine; Life must go on; I forget just why.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Father, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2009). “Second April: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hero, Kissing, Coats

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Heart, Illustration

  Hartley Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1852). “Lives of northern worthies”, p.133

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• The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

  Spider Robinson

  Men, Apollo, Mars

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• As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.

  Stacy Keach

  Dad, Philosophy, Kids

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• Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know you've had your shields hacked down until you're defenseless. It's the type." "You're not in love with a type, you're in love with a man," Penny corrected. "Or you're not.

  Nora Roberts

  Dad, Men, Perfect

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.2112, Penguin

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• Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants.
  'Think of that.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• By the way, how much does NASA cost? It's half a penny on a dollar. Did you know that? ... The most powerful agency on the dreams of a nation is currently underfunded to do what it needs to be doing, and that's making dreams come true ... How much would you pay for the universe?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Powerful, Agency

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• A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace

  Chanakya

  Enemy, Debt, Lasts

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• If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.

  Andy Samberg

  Dollars, Looks, Strange

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Sports, Stars, Woods

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• Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

  Plutarch

  Doe, Needs, Consumerism

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• Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Art, Adults, Elements

  Thomas M. Disch (2005). “On SF”, p.141, University of Michigan Press

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• I worked at McDonald's. I cooked. It was one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. These people earn every single penny they get. In fact, they earn way more than they get.

  Keith Ellison

  Jobs, Mcdonalds, People

  "Pols back #FastFoodStrikes" by Jose Delreal, www.politico.com. December 05, 2013.

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• It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.

  Richard Hammond

  Sports, Jobs, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Machines, Golden, Empty

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.

  Irving Wallace

  Writing, Night, Ifs

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• I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Art, Wine, Years

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• A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Cameras, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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