#money

Cheapskates...are too self-confident - and frankly too smart - to spend money on things they don't need and probably don't even want, simply to impress others or just because they can. ↗

— Jeff Yeager

#money

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#hardship #money

I have always derived great comfort from William Shakespeare. After a depressing visit to the mirror or an unkind word from a girlfriend or an incredulous stare in the street, I say to myself: 'Well. Shakespeare looked like shit.' It works wonders. ↗

— Martin Amis

#money

In those days, there was no money to buy books. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#memoir #reading #money

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#hollywood #money #politics #money

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man. ↗

— Niall Ferguson

#financial-history #history #money #money

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. ↗

— Stephen King

#money #payment #professional #publishing #talent

من عادة النواب أن يثرثروا عند النظر في الميزانية، ومن عادة الحكومة أن تعد بالنظر في تحقيق رغبات النواب في أقرب فرصة، ومن عادة هذه الفرصة ألا تقترب أبدا. ↗

— نجيب محفوظ

#government #money #parliament #money

If we counted our blessings instead of our money, we would all be rich ↗

— Linda Poindexter

#money

Decided to put aside ethnic differences in the cause of making more money. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #money