(408 quotes found)
“The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.”
Richard Brautigan
“He that sells upon Credit, expects to lose 5 per Cent. by bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute”
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
“I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.”
Will Ferrell
“When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth?”
Priscilla Presley
“Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?”
Peg Bracken
“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.”
Mark Twain
“Nobody was ever meant , To remember or invent , What he did with every cent.”
Robert Frost
“They know how important this game is and how important it is that everyone is 100 per cent fit going in, so they'll make the right call.”
Ricky Ponting
“That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.”
Bill Klem