Pay Quotes

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

I think the boy should pay. 'Cuz that's just the way it works on a first-date. But if he doesn't offer, then I will pay... and then just not go out with him again.

[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

In some countries, if you carry the Gospel, you can go to jail. You can't carry a cross, because you'll have to pay a fine. But still, the heart rejoices.

My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.

I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.

A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.

The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

There is something f-king unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them.

I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people's mouths.

I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

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For the same work, dudes get paid more.

People around the world just want self-respect. They want to take care of themselves, they want to pay for their own bills, they want to take care of their families.

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.

You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.

I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem.

Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself, without horrific consequences.

It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.

My UK fans are quite similar to the States but they pay much more attention to the details, that I like. They listen, party, and dance moving through the changing moods of the music with me.

Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?

And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

The greatest compliment I can pay Paul Scholes is that he reminds me of Bryan Robson, the way he bombs into the box.

I don't think divestiture is too high a price to pay to be the president of the United States of America.

Most Americans agree that federal money, their tax money shouldn't be used to help pay for abortions.

I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.

People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.

Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.

I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.

It is for all Men that come into the World once to Die, and after Death the Judgment; and since Death is a Debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done.

They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.