#sums

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#america #artist #believe #hardly #involved

The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance. ↗

— Suze Orman

#around #backed #bank #business #chances

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#be prepared #one word #prepared #probably #responsibility

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#available #because #carry #commercial #far

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.' ↗

— Adam Sandler

#back #by the time #day #eventually #ever

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York. ↗

— Kate Smith

#began #bought #called #car #country

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#balance #faculties #fundamental #genius #health

It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#been #both #coin #confidence #credit

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. ↗

— Alan Ayckbourn

#except #few #few women #large #large sums

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#back #benefiting #border #burden #citizens