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Quotes About Paying

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.
~ Reid Scott
My first paying job in Los Angeles was taking tickets at the Bing under Ron Haver.
~ Elvis Mitchell
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
~ John Podhoretz
Mark Fox is always criticized recruiting: he can't keep the Georgia kids home. What that means - he's not cheating and paying. That's what it means.
~ Jeff Van Gundy
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
~ Jon Oringer
They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!
~ George Takei
They're paying her to sleep now. I could hear my father's exclamation. Praise the lord, she's found her dream career.
~ Jojo Moyes
The consequences of overestimating a company and your ability to analyse it are greatly diminished when you're paying a lot less for it than your analysis shows it is worth.
~ Whitney Tilson
I did a lot of dues-paying in L.A. that I didn't pay in Boston because I was kind of a success there. It was all worth it, I guess.
~ John Pinette
I am doing something I learned early to do, I am paying attention to small beauties, whatever I have-as if it were our duty to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world.
~ Sharon Olds
My Lord, what love is this that pays so dearly. That I, the guilty one, may go free!
~ Graham Kendrick
If people want to follow an illusion that you don't have to pay your way, you don't have to measure up, then there are serious consequences for any country.
~ Enda Kenny
Now he knew . . . that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.
~ Susan Vreeland
I've killed way more people than Kaczynski, because I've been paying a lot of taxes in the last fifteen years, and he hasn't.
~ Exene Cervenka
need a driver for the next few days, maybe more. You want to do it, the job's yours. I'm paying ten bucks an hour plus any meals. You'd have to bring a book or something because there will be a lot of sitting around waiting for me.
~ Michael Connelly
I thought, Holy shit, who is paying attention?" Thus
~ Michael Lewis
When you meet a gentPaying all kinds of rentFor a flatThat would flatten the Taj MahalCall it sad, call it funny,But it's better than even moneyThat the guy's only doin' it for some doll.
~ Frank Loesser
And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.
~ Herman Melville
You can't get into the trap of paying for customer acquisition.
~ Aileen Lee
We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.
~ Chris Chocola
Paying supporters, not good governance or representing the general will, is the essence of ruling. Buying loyalty is particularly difficult
~ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
~ John Podhoretz
At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
~ Larry Hagman
If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.
~ Douglas Rushkoff