Quotes About Value

For me, Sci-Hub has a value by itself, as a website where users can access knowledge. There are many websites where you can see pictures, share tweets, download music, read ebooks. And Sci-Hub is a website where you can read research articles.

The most precious item I have is my wedding dress.

I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I told myself that I would use my precious items.

Imagine owning a one million pound coin. Where would you put it? The pressure. I never even take my wedding rings off after the time I lost one for days, only to find it in a random trouser pocket.

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

When I was a child my mother used to pay me half a crown - 12.5 pence - to wash her car each week.

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.

I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the ways that many people assess the value of movies.

I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.

There have been some clients who have said, 'In order to compete, I'm going to put a pool in and then sell the house.' That's a terrible idea.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.

Despite offering dollar menus and frequent discounts, many of these chains also scored poorly in terms of value.

I collect candy packaging from around the world and believe it has the value of Pop Art.

Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.

I went and bought a Porsche - but it's a certified used Porsche.

I like to invest in companies where I can really add value from my experience, network, etc., so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there.

Restaurants serve supersize portions to make you feel you're getting your money's worth.

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.