Quotes about Cents

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. Votes: 4

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. Votes: 4

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. Votes: 4

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day. Votes: 4

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. Votes: 4

Cents are the most universally used interval measure. Votes: 3

What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar Votes: 3

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache. Votes: 3

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. Votes: 3

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq. Votes: 3

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business. Votes: 3

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent. Votes: 3

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it. Votes: 3

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent. Votes: 3

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times, Votes: 3

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built Votes: 3

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance. Votes: 3

The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product. Votes: 3

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. Votes: 3

When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars. Votes: 3

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. Votes: 3

Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas. Votes: 3

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. Votes: 3

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves. Votes: 3

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. Votes: 3

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy. Votes: 3

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name Votes: 3

The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun. Votes: 3

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. Votes: 1

Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money. Votes: 1

This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it? Votes: 1

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny. Votes: 1

I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents. Votes: 1

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar. Votes: 1

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. Votes: 1

I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money. Votes: 1

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt. Votes: 1

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it. Votes: 1

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents. Votes: 1

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues. Votes: 1

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name. Votes: 1

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days. Votes: 1

I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.' Votes: 1

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar. Votes: 1

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.' Votes: 1

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it. Votes: 1

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles. Votes: 1

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week. Votes: 1

My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar. Votes: 1

You fool! You're 30 cents away from having a quarter! Votes: 0

Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage. Votes: 0

Success can not be measured in dollars and cents. Votes: 0

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. Votes: 0

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents. Votes: 0

All we try to do is buy a dollar for 40 cents. Votes: 0

You must be poor. why? cuz ur not making any cents! Votes: 0

I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world. Votes: 0

I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents. Votes: 0

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it. Votes: 0

Women get 77 cents on the dollar that men get for the same job. Votes: 0

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt. Votes: 0

For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies. Votes: 0

We're here to make people feel like a million dollars, not two cents. Votes: 0

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. Votes: 0

Federal Officer: The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton. Votes: 0

The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change. Votes: 0

Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account. Votes: 0

I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance. Votes: 0

Twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and three cents in coins, from six centuries. Votes: 0

Less than ten cents on the dollar in the Clinton Foundation has gone to charitable causes. Votes: 0

Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents. Votes: 0

Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them. Votes: 0

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. Votes: 0

I bought stuff at 3.5 cents once and I thought it can't go down to zero. It can. Votes: 0

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same. Votes: 0

I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day. Votes: 0

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. Votes: 0

Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day. Votes: 0

Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound. Votes: 0

Contribute to No More Lies Dot Org. Every dollar you donate will bring us 75 cents closer to the truth. Votes: 0

I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent Votes: 0

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? Votes: 0

Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive! Votes: 0

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men? Votes: 0

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please. Votes: 0

My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir. Votes: 0

College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents... and bounce it. Votes: 0

Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport. Votes: 0

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? Votes: 0

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket. Votes: 0

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game. Votes: 0

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something. Votes: 0

I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year. Votes: 0

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. Votes: 0

...you must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket. Votes: 0

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough? Votes: 0

Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side. Votes: 0

The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count. Votes: 0

Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense Votes: 0

You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars. Votes: 0

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool. Votes: 0

The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents. Votes: 0

Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax on cigarettes 158 percent - 62 cents per pack. Votes: 0

money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth. Votes: 0

The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation. Votes: 0

If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man? Votes: 0

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level? Votes: 0

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face. Votes: 0

to balance my own checkbook each month, I simply record whatever is necessary in the following manner: '37 cents to cover embezzlement by somebody at the bank. Votes: 0

There's a very big difference between negotiating to borrow billions of dollars on behalf of MCA and negotiating to borrow 28 cents in connection with making independent pictures. Votes: 0

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men. Votes: 0

This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke. Votes: 0

The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder. Votes: 0

I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else. Votes: 0

Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that. Votes: 0

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time. Votes: 0

(So I heard the boom of my fathr's rifle when he shot my best friend.) A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.(14) Votes: 0

If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market. Votes: 0

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one. Votes: 0

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents. Votes: 0

Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties. Votes: 0

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar. Votes: 0

This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back. Votes: 0

T.V. style pageant of people parading through Rudy Giuliani, now on the phone, if he doesn`t come in person today to get his two cents in. Votes: 0

Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better. Votes: 0

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please! Votes: 0

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy. Votes: 0

[Donald Trump] would give wealthy families 30 cents or 40 cents on the dollar for their nannies, and little or nothing for millions of hardworking families trying to afford child care. Votes: 0

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop. Votes: 0

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.. Votes: 0

If I had a dollar for every time a random woman walked up to me and tried to seduce me, I'd have 50 cents. That's assuming drag queens are half price. Votes: 0

Look at Hispanic women - they are being paid 42 cents on the dollar - or African-American women. I think it's an issue we have to look at across the board. Votes: 0

Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less. Votes: 0

Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen. Votes: 0

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice Votes: 0

If I remember correctly, the most efficient campaign in modern times, in terms of burn rate, had been Obama's 2012 reelect, which I believe the number was they spent 37 cents at every dollar. Votes: 0

According to a recent survey, kids are receiving an average of 40 cents less from the tooth fairy. That's right, the economy is so bad that even make-believe people are feeling the pinch. Votes: 0

The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning. Votes: 0

Do they allow tipping on the boat? - Yes, sir. Have you got two fives? - Oh, yes, sir. Then you won't need the ten cents I was going to give you. Votes: 0

Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives. Votes: 0

Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each. Votes: 0

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice. Votes: 0

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well. Votes: 0

I used to buy everything at garage sales. It was hard to give up! I’d be like, ‘But this crazy sweater is amazing, and it only cost 25 cents!’ Votes: 0

[On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents. Votes: 0

Damn, I can't wait until it get dark, So I can light these fireworks up at the park, And celebrate my independence, It's the 4th of July, but I ain't got 10 cents. Votes: 0

Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents. Votes: 0

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books. Votes: 0

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime. Votes: 0

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar. Votes: 0

This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true. Votes: 0

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents. Votes: 0

Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work. Votes: 0

You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing. Votes: 0

I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun. Votes: 0

You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck. Votes: 0

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella too. Votes: 0

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if behind them they didn't have a little bit of plain ordinary everyday kindness, and a little looking out for the other fellow, too. Votes: 0

I loved Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat'. I found a copy of 'Interview' when I was in seventh grade at a garage sale for 25 cents. It had a crazy cover. Votes: 0

I've got a kid in Africa that I feed, that I clothe, that I school, that I inoculate for 75 cents a day. Which is practically nothing compared to what it cost to send him there. Votes: 0

I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents. Votes: 0

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! Votes: 0