Pay Quotes

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

I, for one, believe that revenue has to increase. I think every American would pay more if they thought spending was going to be cut and the budget brought to balance.

I'm not fast. But there are a lot of guys that are a hell of a lot slower than I am. Somebody wants to do a pay-per-view race between me and [Tom] Brady, sign me up.

If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.

With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay. I'll put this in your stocking."

We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.

The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. They see that I take nothing for granted in life. It helps them stay grounded.

There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.

I am obligated to and will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government.

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?

The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

When the Reich could no longer pay its obligations, Germany would go bankrupt.

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.

Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.

If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental.

I never pay any attention to figures.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, but because I just forget to pay my bills.

I need to pay people to make me work out, or I wouldn't do it.

People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

I feel I do what I love, and the fools pay me for it.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.