Coins Quotes - Page 7

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.

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.'

A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

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

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

Well...he's back in an exam room. Should I get out a quarter?" Everybody groaned. There was only one He out of the legions of male patients they treated, and coin bingo was typically how the staff decided who had to deal with him.

Our standard rate. A doubloon a day." It was generous. More than generous--some families would put him up for a week for a single coin. "Half a doubloon a day," she said. "No, you see, the idea behind bargaining is that you ask for a larger amount.

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

Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it's cold and miserable and be poor there?

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

I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.

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

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