Coins Quotes

In Turkey, the media wait for you outside. You go down to them, in tunnel, and sometimes, people are yelling and throwing things. They throw coins. I get hit in the head. Bleeding. There is blood.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

If I had the flag that Betsy Ross worked so hard on, I wouldn't destroy it. I'd put it up on EBay because it's gotta be worth some serious coin. And that is the American way.

Jesus said that when confronted with Caesar's coin, to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's but unto God what is God's.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall

October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

Everybody is full of crap. The coin of the realm is being full of crap. The best people - being full of crap are our leaders and our superstars.

Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.

Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

I got here the same way the coin did.

Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

Power ... was the coin of the Washington realm and, without it, you might as well file for bankruptcy.

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.

Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition.

The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse.

They determined who got the first question by a coin toss, to which Sarah Palin said, 'Oh, what a coincidence, that's how I got picked.'

Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead.

Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?

In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

I have a vision in my hand that the labels have these vaults, like Scrooge McDuck, except instead of gold coins they have these demo CDs, and sometimes they just go in there and take a swim.

Less coin, less care.

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.

I collect dice and I collect coins. I travel the world so I love dice, I always have dice on me. I collect magnets as well.

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

There's not a comedy actor who doesn't want a chance to do drama, and vice versa. As actors, we're always looking to be pushed and to do the other side of the coin.