I go through phases where I'll overuse words. S. E. Hinton, who wrote The Outsiders - she and I have been in contact for the 50th anniversary of the book - and she said, "You still owe me the 10 dollars that we bet that you couldn't stop saying the word 'gnarly. '"
Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on. . . . They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.
It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars.
He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American.
It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.
It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.
God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.
. . . we're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.
Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.
Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.
For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.
We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U. S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.
I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess.
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
An electron is an electron, but you can decide where to send your electric-bill payment. You can't redirect the electrons, but you can your dollars. The dollars will drive generation choices.
If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.
It's OK, by the way, that it takes 10 years for you to make "money. " Since when was it that being in your mid-30s to make a few hundred thousand dollars or a million dollars was like egregiously unfair? I think we have to have a sense of perspective here. We're all going to live into our 80s or 90s. So what is everybody in such a rush for?
If I give $1,000 dollars I deserve to get back $100,000 because I am just, that's not greed!