Pennies Quotes - Page 7

• Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room.

  Mary McCarthy

  Atheist, Eye, True Life

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go.

  Robert Goolrick

  Long, Looks, May

  Robert Goolrick (2013). “Heading Out to Wonderful”, p.310, Algonquin Books

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• When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

  Simon Van Booy

  Lonely, Rain, Fall

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• When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Morning, Writing, Sea

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• Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.

  Roger Ailes

  Basketball, Golf, Play

  "Exclusive Excerpt: Roger Ailes Off Camera" by Zev Chafets, www.vanityfair.com. March 6, 2013.

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• I played the character knowing that she was knocked down, 100 percent, dead-in-front-of-a-bus in love with her boss. Every scene, I did not care if it was about taxes or about, you know, getting rid of the penny, it was all about me being in love with him.

  Janel Moloney

  Character, Being In Love, Knowing

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• The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.

  John Steinbeck

  Fall, Sky, Tails

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• Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated.  Suppose the fight was fixed.  Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future and you saw with indubitable certainty that despite everything — your sin, your smallness, your stupidity — you could have free for the asking your whole crazy heart’s deepest desire: heaven, eternal joy.  Would you not return fearless and singing?  What can earth do to you, if you are guaranteed heaven?  To fear the worst earthly loss would be like a millionaire fearing the loss of a penny — less, a scratch on a penny.

  Peter Kreeft

  Crazy, Heart, Loss

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing”, p.82, Ignatius Press

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• The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.

  John Conyers

  Home, Iraq, Giving

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• 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

  Kids, Sunday, Years

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• Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.

  Jaron Lanier

  People, Updates, Deserve

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• Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Real, Men, Dollars

  Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Return

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• A penny saved is twopence dear.

  Richard Saunders

  Dear, Saved

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• I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

  Dave Rowntree

  Challenges, Napster, Records

  "Reanimator". Interviewed with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2001.

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• Found a dead body when I was 12, saved the Enterprise a few times, Ran the Axis of Anarchy, broke up Penny and Leonard. Currently running the non-lethal weapons lab at Global Dynamics.

  Wil Wheaton

  Running, Axes, Google

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• When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. I was greatly excited at the thought of the first lucky passerby who would receive a gift in this way, regardless of merit, a free gift from the universe. . . . I've been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.

  Annie Dillard

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hands

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• Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Land, Remember

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• I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

  Jonathan Frakes

  Stars, Stupid, Pounds

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• As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

  William Proxmire

  Future, Science, Fantasy

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• Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Cake, Taste

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.47

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• Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Art, Hard Work, Fire

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• Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.

  Ludwig Quidde

  War, Demand, Assuming

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• Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

  George Orwell

  Writing, Heart

  George Orwell (1987). “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, Harvill Secker

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• It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

  Pablo Picasso

  Errors, Personality, Genius

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