Quotes About Rent

C'est cette économie paradoxale qui, de manière aussi très paradoxale, confère tout leur poids aux propriétés économiques héritées, et en particulier à la rente, condition de la survie en l'absence de marché.

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.

'Rent' audiences tend to be pretty vocal. They scream and cheer a lot.

There was a wonderful old man [...] who had a piece of property [...] he would rent out for twenty dollards a year or so to any young person he thought might have a future in the arts. [...] He declared he wouldn't install running water because he didn't like the class of people it attracted.

I always say, waste not, want not, which is a terrible cliche the British invented during the war to get kids to eat their whole-wheat bread, but when I say it I mean, waste not money on boring old rent when it can be un-wasted on Chloe jeans.

When I moved to London I couldn't afford to rent anywhere. So I housesat for a friend of my mum and dad's - and had to look after her sickly cat. That was the only way I could survive on a meagre intern wage.

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

I was in college starting in '95, and 'Rent' was the only show I could see - because if you waited in line and camped out, you could try to get the lottery tickets.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school... you know, you would rent them during the summer for really cheap, and students are in there. So I met some people who rented a room. I just remember it being very dirty.

Donny Hathaway's 'For All We Know' is the song that I've sung the longest. It is a beautiful song about living in the moment and appreciating this very second. That is the song I did for my 'Rent' audition.

Ah, no, ah, no. There, senor, you would be wrong. Knowing that after the first year the rent is liable not to be paid, we bury the poorest two feet down. It is less work, you understand? of course, we must judge by the family who owns a body.

Solo un disoccupato che ha appena pagato l'affitto riuscirebbe a leggere "Guerra e pace" senza saltare le descrizioni dei paesaggi.

If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.

If the people are the landlords of the public airwaves and the television and radio stations are the tenants, why don't the tenants pay rent?

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolised, i.e., from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, you say individuality vanishes.

If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.