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Quotes About Rent

Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day.
~ J. J. Watt
Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.
~ Rory Vaden
Success is not something you own; it's something you rent, and the rent is due every day. When you stop paying rent on success, you start paying the rent on failure.
~ Tom Black
Privilege is being able to keep a prescribed timetable without fear of paying the rent, being in pain or becoming sick, losing health care, and taking care of your family and yourself.
~ Alice Wong
All those tattoos. A woman could get any tattoo she liked, but they all said the same thing. They were a sign reading AVAILABLE FOR RENT.
~ Joe Hill
Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come to visit, they have somewhere nice to stay.
~ Jorge Garcia
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
~ Robert Carlyle
The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
~ Ed Bradley
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.
~ Anonymous
she might hiss. "Who pays the rent?" "I don't know, Monsieur." "Do the checks come from the Natural History Museum?" "I can't say." "When was the last time someone came?" "No one comes. The checks are mailed.
~ Anthony Doerr
There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about.
~ Juno Temple
I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
Terrified to touch that emergency money she had stowed away, she was stretching her money as far as it would go—rent for Penny took the top position because she was certain the elderly darling needed it. Plus, she needed a place to live while she starved to death.
~ Robyn Carr
I don't get no respect. I told my landlord I want to live in a more expensive apartment. He raised the rent.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Eddy Mink: The services that the government provides to Indians might be likened to rent. The rent for use of the entire country of the United States.
~ Louise Erdrich
You don't lose much when the landlord's house burns down. Another landlord will always turn up, unless it's the same one, German or French, English or Chinese, to collect the rent … In marks or francs? What difference does it make, seeing you've got to pay …
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Mr. Harmong is the cheapest chintziest most pig-lipped tightwad skanked-out lardo king landlord of all time.
~ Lynda Barry
They stood aloof the scars remaining. Like cliffs which had been rent asunder.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life became much more difficult with the Intifada, and my wife and I began to regret that we hadn't rented in the Israeli half. The rent's a little high, but we would have managed with a smaller home.
~ Sayed Kashua
Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.
~ Kiran Desai
the Toil Index – the number of working hours it takes a median worker to pay the median rent in one of America's big cities. In 1950 it took forty-five hours per month. A generation later it had edged up to fifty-six hours. Today it takes 101 hours.
~ Edward Luce
Rent-stabilized tenants face harassment. They face illegal evictions. They're confronted with ceaseless 'buy-out' offers that promise a quick buck if they give up their homes.
~ Bill de Blasio
I'm not a huge L.A. fan, but I go there for the winter every year. We usually rent a house and have massive house parties.
~ Benny Blanco
Retirement shouldn't be making the choice between buying much-needed medication or putting food on the table; making the choice between heating an apartment in the cold winter months or paying rent; making the choice between paying a phone bill or seeing a doctor.
~ Letitia James