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Quotes About Money

I should also say that the policy issues that have to be faced are quite deep. It's always nice to have reforms. It would be nice to have more money for starving children. But there are some objective problems which you and I would have to face if we ran the country.
~ Noam Chomsky
I can make a case that I regret nothing. After all, most of my mistakes turned out to be things I survived, or turned into funny stories, or, on occasion, even made money from.
~ Nora Ephron
Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses?
~ Nora Ephron
I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.
~ Nora Ephron
Terminé el guion y la película se hizo. Aprendo enseguida de la experiencia, y la lección que aprendí en este caso fue que había tenido muchísima suerte de no heredar una suma importante de dinero, porque no habría terminado de escribir Cuando Harry encontró a Sally, una película que cambió mi vida. Cuando Harry
~ Nora Ephron
Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And
~ Nora Ephron
Once I picked up a copy of Vogue while having my hair done, and it cost me twenty thousand dollars. But you should see my teeth.
~ Nora Ephron
Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.
~ Nora Roberts
You paid off a million dollars since January?" Viola shook her head. "That must've been one holy hell of a yard sale.
~ Nora Roberts
Twenty-five thousand," Maggie murmured. A tidy sum, even tidier ten years ago. "You're telling me you think the money was the motive for murder?" "Money's always a motive for murder, and it's a loose end.
~ Nora Roberts
I thought I was pretty damn clever. She said that was all right, she'd make three wishes. The first was that I wouldn't piss this money away being an idiot and forgetting I had
~ Nora Roberts
So she hadn't been smart with her money, Malory admitted with a windy sigh. She didn't see the point of letting it lie in some bank when it could be turned into something lovely to look at or to wear. Until it was used, money was just paper. Malory tended to use a great deal of paper.
~ Nora Roberts
after cash or valuables.
~ Nora Roberts
because I plan to marry you for your money. It's the nosy
~ Nora Roberts
My family's just as important as yours, and I've got as much money and prestige." "Money and prestige don't buy good manners. You aren't showing any at the moment.
~ Nora Roberts
The nineties were not an age for the aspirant. The worst thing you could be was a sellout, and not because selling out involved money. Selling out meant you needed to be popular, and any explicit desire for approval was enough to prove you were terrible.
~ Chuck Klosterman
machine powering the modern world is too complicated for the average person to fix or calibrate. And they know this. This is what makes an IT guy different from you. He might make less money, he might have less social prestige, and people might look at him in the cafeteria like he's a morlock — but he can act however he wants. He can be nice, but only if he feels like it. He can ignore the company dress code. He can lie for
~ Chuck Klosterman
Both lyrically and sonically, glam metal is the sensible accompaniment for removing one's pants for money.
~ Chuck Klosterman
According to the director, Primer is a movie about the relationship between risk and trust. This is true. But it also makes a concrete point about the potential purpose of time travel—it's too important to use only for money, but too dangerous to use for anything else.
~ Chuck Klosterman
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
She's so thin she's either dying or rich.
~ Chuck Palahniuk