Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.
It has been a masterful fight-back by the big banks. We the paying public can't do anything much except admit defeat and settle back for the next set of bills. In the meantime, perhaps, we should try and think of a name for the new economic system, which certainly isn't capitalism. . . The most accurate term would probably be "bankocracy".
I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.
If we are paying attention to something, it's important. That's how we decide to pay attention. But a communicator can reroute our attention to something that isn't important, but make it seem important as a consequence.
[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture as well as the American culture, then we've done something that's really good and supporting these fishermen who are doing the right thing in sustainability. . . paying attention to make sure we don't overfish our world.
Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention!
Your ad begins as an interruption. Make paying attention to it feel like a reward
I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're legally entitled to. But I follow the letter of the law, because the consequences are severe if you're caught. I was a perpetrator at one time and suffered severe consequences. It is difficult in some places, but if you live in places like California, move somewhere else to save some money.
Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
You walk into a restaurant when chefs are not there and it's different. The magic isn't there. Why pay top pounds when the chef is not in the house? I feel cheated. I don't mind paying big money for food but if I go to Paul Bocuse's restaurant I want Paul in the house.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
you have not been paying attention
The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without paying for it. But I think it's important to realize the blessing of the Internet, which is that everybody has a voice and you can break through, even without a record company.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
Just as stinginess is blameworthy so is the fault of facility in paying more for things than they are worth. . .
I clip coupons all the time. Why should you pay more for something that someone else is paying less for?
One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.