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Quotes About Cheap

If folks really want music in their community they can do it very cheaply. It doesn't have to be a $50 million program. All we need is just a little real estate.
~ Steve Miller
I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.
~ Craig Newmark
I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one was out of ink, you threw it away; you didn't dip it into more ink.
~ Patti Smith
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
~ Samuel Butler
J. C. Ryle said, There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough - a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice - which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.3
~ Mark Dever
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives, Henle's loops and all.
~ Annie Dillard
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives, Henle's loops and all. Every glistening egg is a memento mori.
~ Annie Dillard
And you want to 'reform' people like that when dynamite is so cheap?
~ Sinclair Lewis
Thus the tired fantasy of cheap, abundant nuclear power needs to be buried alongside the Eisenhower-era propagandists who dreamed it up in the first place.
~ John Michael Greer
apron, a cheap appropriation of the Cath Kidston effect. I feel like an interloper in someone else's life. I am a creature from science fiction, wearing an earth body to disguise my true self.
~ Emily Barr
The flood of cheap manufactures, for which the people have no need,destroys their industries. They become dependent on this trade and the demand for goods can only be met by enslaving their fellows.
~ Barry Unsworth
I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.
~ Joanne Froggatt
We had such a small budget making our first record, and the only way we could make it work was that the record company would find studio time in the middle of the night - literally, that was so cheap that we could afford to do it.
~ Tony Kanal
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
~ Lamar S. Smith
Let's not kid ourselves about just how cheap offshore labor really is. We not only pay substantially less per hour: we also avoid the costs we would incur if these workers immigrated here. We don't pay for their medical expenses when they show up in the emergency room without insurance.
~ Edward Conard
The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.
~ Lucy Powell
One nice thing about the benefit of long experience with la frontera is that we in Texas don't have to run around getting all hysterical about immigrants. The border is porous. When you want cheap labor, you open it up; when you don't, you shut it down. It works to our benefit - it always has.
~ Molly Ivins
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
~ Daniel Craig
RyanAir have been getting a hard time because they've launched a £7 flight to New York. Although as always with RyanAir it does land slightly outside of New York. In Dublin.
~ Frankie Boyle
It's time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts the need for energy that is cheap, abundant, and reliable.
~ Robert Bryce
I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.
~ William Monahan
The distinction between true and false applies to ideas, not to emotions; an emotion can be cheap, but never untrue.
~ Arthur Koestler
That's alright, said Hugo. I've got some wine Which was about all he seemed to have. He poured out two mugfuls. Very nice, said Adrian, sipping appreciatively. I wonder how they got the cat to sit on the bottle. It's cheap, that's the main thing.
~ Stephen Fry
Explanations are such cheap poetry.
~ Stephen King