Penny Quotes - page 5

Mike Tyson has been given every penny he has coming. (Don King)
It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond. View quote
Dorothy Hamill
Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world. View quote
JJ Feild
The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home. View quote
John Conyers
I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job. View quote
Karen Abbott
Geniuses sometimes end up very unhappy, without a penny. View quote
Anthony Mann
My style was nostalgic and involved pearls and penny loafers, always with the pennies in them. View quote
Mia Sara
The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up. View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising. View quote
Robert Vaughan
I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders. View quote
Rodney Alexander
Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be. (Sophie Ellis-Bextor)
Yes, I am scared of prison. It's the last thing if you are after building up a business over 38 years and you are approaching your 66th birthday and you never owed a man a penny and you feel hard done by and you try to protect yourself and your family and go to prison - if that is the society we are living in, I am happy to accept that. View quote
Sean Quinn
I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die. View quote
William E. Conway, Jr.
I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted. View quote
Steven Knight
By the same proportion that a penny saved is a penny gained, the preserver of books is a Mate for the Compiler of them. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
Without your love It's a honky-tonk parade Without your love It's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey world Just as phony as it can be But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me. View quote
Yip Harburg
In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family. View quote
Janet Jackson
As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.' View quote
Maureen Dowd
What a pity that he who steals a penny loaf should be hung, whilst he who steals thousands of the public money should be acquitted! View quote
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
But every penny they borrowed or made from China has really come as a result of how this nation sacrificed everybody's rights. With globalization and the Internet, we all know it. (Ai Weiwei)
Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers. View quote
Hugh Hefner
Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded. View quote
Tim Allen
He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard