Quotes of: Pay-raise Keyword

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

Joss Whedon

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.

Matthew Lillard

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

Shirley MacLaine

Marie: [Rhetorically] Who pays $20,000 for a ride to Paris?

The Bourne Identity

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

Aaron Allston

If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

Andrew Lewis

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

Ann Wilson

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

Ben Bernanke

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

Nick Lampson

To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.

Vladimir Putin

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

Vanna White

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.

William Petty

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

Joey Adams

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

Maria Sharapova

You know what—gyms make the largest chunk of their profit from clients who pay their monthly dues on auto-pay but never bother to show up and use the gym. The DVD-rental companies make a good chunk of their profits from late fees; the credit-card c...

Closure of the Helpdesk — A Geek Tragedy

While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet...

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

A brick is a duplicate. It is a physical copy of the idea for a brick. And what’s the big idea? A brick represents unity, a notion of hey, let’s build something together. Like a house, for example. And after you help me build my house, I’ll use...

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

A brick could be used as gift for the man who has everything. Here’s a tip: that man doesn’t have everything, because I just stole his wallet. But I can’t very well give him a gift of something I’ve just grifted. So while he’s pondering the...

Blanket

Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually does. Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whol...

I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It

One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt ...

The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson