If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.
I think the experience of getting an audience a little bit tense and shocking them with a jump scare, and then moving on it can be cheap and easy. The harder thing is to get them unnerved and disturbed in a growing way. That starts off easy and increases all the way through the picture.
There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two. "
I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.
Cheap booze is a false economy.
Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.
You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?
Good dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for them.
High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.
All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.
Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!
Talk is cheap. . . It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.
Effective security measures do not come cheap.
Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.
Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.