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Quotes About Rented

My family never owned a home. We leased.
~ Aaron Paul
I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.
~ Benny Hill
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
~ A. E. van Vogt
In California, my mother had raised me mostly alone. We didn't have many things, but she is warm, and we were happy. We moved a lot. We rented.
~ Lisa Brennan-Jobs
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
~ A. R. Rahman
That night, on a narrow bed in a rented room in a strange city, a dream was dreamed.
~ David Grossman
Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.
~ Chungliang Al Huang
I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
~ Mick Jagger
I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back.
~ Steven Wright
You'd think they would have put the airport closer to the city, too. The cab ride was nearly two hours! Heck, I could have rented a car for the fare I paid." Ten to one, the cabbie also had found Willamina Kent a plump partridge and had given her the scenic tour.
~ Janet Chapman
thirty two years old, no-fixed-hours casual contract junior lecturer at a university in London, living the dream, her mother says, and she is, if the dream means having no job security and almost everything being too expensive to do and that you're still in the same rented flat you had when you were a student over a decade ago …
~ Ali Smith
When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown; the reception hall smelled like feet.
~ Sherri Shepherd
I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
~ Ada Yonath
I'm writing a book, and there's not even space for a desk in our home. So I spent my hard-earned book money and rented the small apartment downstairs from us.
~ Faith Salie
Is it an investment property? Is it rented? What is the current rent? What is the vacancy rate? What are the average rents in that area? What are the maintenance costs? Is there deferred maintenance? Will the owner finance? What types of financing terms are available?
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
After Hamilton and his family left Philadelphia in mid-February 1795, they rented lodgings in New York City for several days before proceeding to the Schuyler residence in Albany for a long-overdue rest.
~ Ron Chernow
never could see what was so disgraceful about 'stiffening in a rented house,' as Eliot wrote. Do you croak better on your own property?
~ Saul Bellow
Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.
~ Dido Armstrong
Better than living in a home bought on a long-term loan is often staying in a rented, small house for a year or so.
~ Anuj Somany
Last time I called shotgun we had rented a limo, so I messed up!
~ Mitch Hedberg
The 'incredible frog hotel'—really a local bed and breakfast—...the frogs stay (in their tanks) in a block of rented rooms.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
My family home was a rented house in the East End of London. My parents could have bought it at one point, but they preferred to spend their money on holidays and theatre tickets. It was strange to see it handed on to someone else when my father passed away.
~ Matthew Bourne
I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.
~ Ziggy Marley
In September 1929, the Empire State Building Corporation rented space for its executive offices at 200 Madison Avenue. The building, on the west side of Madison
~ John Tauranac