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Quotes About Coin

Did you know there's now a coin shortage? Yes, America is literally out of common cents.
~ Internet meme, July 2020
Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it again, counting. Thirty-two times it had fallen Slayer Society up. Twenty-two times it was down.
~ Heather Brewer
We're going to try and prove to the market that you can do a legal coin offering. If the SEC doesn't crack down, this party will be amazing - the biggest party in town for a long time. If they do crack down, a lot of people are going to feel a lot of pain.
~ Naval Ravikant
Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand.
~ Pablo Neruda
Sometimes a piece of the sun burned like a coin between my hands.
~ Pablo Neruda
Un seul mot, usé, mais qui brille comme une vieille pièce de monnaie: merci!
~ Pablo Neruda
Someone once said to me: You never mention his looks. And it's true, I don't, I find it difficult. At that time, he was probably the most beautiful man alive, as he was certainly the most violent, but that's the problem. How do you separate a tiger's beauty from its ferocity? Or a cheetah's elegance from the speed of the attack? Achilles was like that- the beauty and the terror were two sides of a single coin.
~ Pat Barker
At the time, he was probably the most beautiful man alive, as he was certainly the most violent, but that's the problem. How do you separate a tiger's beauty from its ferocity? Or a cheetah's elegance from the speed of its attack? Achilles was like that - the beauty and the terror were two sides of a single coin.
~ Pat Barker
The message, which one fall or another of the coin would eventually give him, was how to get himself out of his chamber and into Nepenthe's, so that he could tell her why he had not come to tell her why he had not come.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
I am. Trying, I'm trying it. But he means something else. I'm trying it like, you find a coin on the table and you spin it for no reason but to see it happen. He's trying it like medical school, because maybe he'll grow up to be a doctor.
~ Daniel Handler
Self-love is always self-love, whether it parades as pride and importance or masquerades as self-pity, worthlessness, and low self-esteem. They are not opposites, but two sides of the same coin. A penny is still a penny no matter which side is up. I is still the most important word.
~ Leslie Vernick
When other entrepreneurs created jukeboxes by arranging for a phonograph to play popular music at the drop of a coin, Edison objected to this debasement, which apparently detracted from serious office use of his invention. Only after about 20 years did Edison reluctantly concede that the main use of his phonograph was to record and play music.
~ Jared Diamond
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
If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.
~ Gijs de Vries
A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
~ Janet Fitch
there being somewhere in this curious centuries-long association a kind of love with hate on the obverse side, as in a coin.
~ Paul Scott
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
~ Michel de Montaigne
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.
~ Malvina Hoffman
It fell into my cup with a clink, and no doubt I will be considered to have abandoned the last vestiges of humanness by those who do not understand the degree of my suffering when I say that it sounded to my ears like the music of a five-rupee coin dropped into a beggar's cup. A
~ Yann Martel
She was a classic beauty. She looked like a coin, so it was only natural for her to circulate.
~ Christopher Lee
it, as she would a grand prize. The woman's dignity is at stake and is more to be valued than this one degraded coin.
~ Unknown
Above her, he can see the trees and the bright, full moon, a shining coin of silver spinning through the sky. The first blush of sunrise on the horizon is still a ways off...
~ Holly Black