Cents Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.

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

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

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.

I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

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.

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.

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

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.

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

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.

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.

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

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.

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

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

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.

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

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.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

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.

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

Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.

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

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

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

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.

[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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.

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.

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

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

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.