Dimes Quotes - Page 3

I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime."

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

People want what’s best for them, and they can switch on a dime, because there’s always a new disruptor disrupting the last disruptor. So companies should just strive to keep changing and adapting to their customers’ needs.

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over.

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.

If I had a dime for everytime that I was wrong, I'd be broke.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.

If youre not living awake to the fact the life can change in a dime, then youre living asleep.

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?

From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.

I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.

You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.

I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.

I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education - but, um, not a dime.