Quotes About Transaction

Look,I'll pay you for a cup of coffee and the use of this- she thumped a hand on the sofa and a soft plume of dust rose up -thing for the night. I don't take in lodgers. And you'd probably kick a sick dog if he got in your way, she added evenly.

You just pay your filthy money, and somewhere else, the ax falls.

A fair price ... is nothing to be trifled with. A price, once paid, cannot be returned.

They asked me how I would be paying and I told them that if past experience was anything to go by probably with my life and the thin girl with the thick spectacles reached deep into her soul for a smile and repeated the question.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Society gives me chicken and coffee, bed and lodging, in return for a certain number of pieces of paper which were left me by an aunt, for no other reason than that I share her name.

What has seven editions (the book had already gone into no less) got to do with the value of it? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself — a voice answering a voice.

Thus Arabel at once "began to comfort me by showing how certain it was that I should recover him for ten pounds at most." Ten pounds, it was reckoned, was about the price that Mr. Taylor would ask for a cocker spaniel. Mr. Taylor was the head of the gang. As soon as a lady in Wimpole Street lost her dog she went to Mr. Taylor; he named his price, and it was paid; or if not, a brown paper parcel was delivered in Wimpole Street a few days later containing the head and paws of the dog.

Sex had always been a weapon, a tool, the only form of currency that never ran out.

The first time I had sex with a man for money, it was September.

Vanishing here is always a possibility and it gives the city a special aura. Kidnappings are frequent, but they at least mean someone wants to return the missing and is acting in a rational manner where a human has a value in money and a feasible transaction is possible. Vanishing means a page left half-written, a tale never fully told. It is more final than execution because it means not simply being murdered but being erased from any real memory or participation in the human community.

It was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for.

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.

sales guy at the dollar

keeping his pistol level. "The price is now $200 million.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for.

He would sell his soul if he knew what merchant would lay out money upon't; and some of 'em have need of one.

The only difference between the woman who sells her body through prostitution and she who sells herself in marriage is the price and duration of the contract.

no, a check, and pushing it at him. He took hold of

Food is a noble thing to trade.