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Quotes About Nickel

During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, no less important, of aldehydes and acetones into corresponding alcohols.
~ Paul Sabatier
She's a grifter, shamus. I'm a grifter. We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel. Okey.
~ Raymond Chandler
Trouble is my business," I said. "How else would I make a nickel?
~ Raymond Chandler
a large chifforobe wedged into a small closet that their mother said they'd have to pay Tom Robinson a nickel to bust up.
~ Karin Slaughter
I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They've already done it. It's called a nickel.
~ Jay Leno
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.
~ Franklin P. Adams
It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
~ Ted Turner
One more drink and we're sharing our rape stories. Nearly every woman I know has one. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard one of these stories I could buy an enormous, plush pillow with which to smother my tear-stained face.
~ Jami Attenberg
Nobody talks about Shaq Thompson. I don't know what he is. He's like a nickel corner/linebacker.
~ Jon Gruden
Fundamentally, I've always been a fan of actually looking at our whole state tax system and really figuring out how we reform our tax system so that everyone's paying their fair share but we don't have a lot of nickel and diming with 100 taxes that end up hitting people that maybe can't bear it the most.
~ Pramila Jayapal
We have a lot of taxpayers in this city who deserve to get every nickel of their tax dollars that they're entitled to from Washington, and I intend to make that happen.
~ Lori Lightfoot
Sure, it's illegal to melt down your nickels (for now), but the point is, "I won't need to melt it down because once they change the way they make the nickel, the old nickels become even more valuable than before because scarcity sets in as they begin to remove them from circulation.
~ Anthony Robbins
tweeds, and nickel instead of importing them, that it could defy the World. . .and maybe, if that World was so impertinent as to defy America in turn, Buzz hinted, he might have to take it over and run it properly.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
~ Larry Wall
You know if I had nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden.
~ Jon Stewart
It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money—and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.
~ Ayn Rand
The sky was full of stacked gray clouds and the air tasted like a nickel.
~ Judy Blundell
If I had a nickel for every time someone asked, 'When are you doing an album?' My career is way too transparent to do say, 'Guess what - I've got 16 tracks you've never heard!'
~ Deadmau5
When he walked outside again, the sky was shining like a nickel and the air was filled with the smell of sugared nuts.
~ Michael Chabon
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel.
~ Franklin P. Adams
Every night is Christmas Eve on old East Main, Sailors and their sweethearts all agree. Neon signs of red and green Shine upon the friendly scene, Welcoming you in from off the sea. Santa's bag is filled with all your dreams come true: Nickel beers that sparkle like champagne, Barmaids who all love to screw, All of them reminding you It's Christmas Eve on old East Main.
~ Thomas Pynchon
As a key ingredient in EV batteries, as well as in the production of wind turbines, solar cells and bioenergy plants, nickel is integral to global efforts to achieve a clean energy future.
~ Kenes Rakishev
My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.
~ Roz Chast
The greatest change was the increasing importance of commodities to Russia's leading businessmen, not only oil but also aluminum, nickel, and steel.
~ Chris Miller