Top 1200 Paying Rent Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

I remember my mom would read the newspaper, and if she saw a place that was cheaper in rent, we were gone. She'd pack everything up, move the furniture and we were out of there.

You don't have to be Willy Loman about it. But, "Airline food is crazy. Hey, what's with these rent-a-cars?" or you go up and talk about how Christopher Walken wanted to know where my dog's tail went. That really happened to me.

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage

That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.

I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.

Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.

Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

We would rent this old van and drive anywhere we could get in 10-to-12 hours. We scraped by with little money, but there's a lot to be said for those days. We were naive, but there was no pressure and a lot of freedom.

I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.

I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.

Every black comedian in the country knew what I could do. But that doesn't mean everyone else is paying attention.

I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere. Money's okay, but what I really like is working.

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

Our kids should be leaving school ready for success, not paying for the misconduct of predatory institutions.

OK, I wasn't really paying attention to YouTube in the year after it began. No one was. But its growth was remarkably rapid.

When 'Rent: Live' was announced, I bugged everybody. The creatives, Fox, the producers, my team - I have to be Mark Cohen. It almost got to a laughable point for me. I was like, 'I have to be Mark Cohen.'

I think Canadians, they may be offended that I pointed out that they're stalking us. But at least we're paying attention.

When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.

We rent one in three tuxedos in the U.S. and Canada, and if we make a mistake, our employees will deliver to the customer's home, office, or wedding. We get a couple hundred letters a week praising the service in our stores.

My mom is from Jamaica and she was going to school in the morning, and in the evening she was working, and at night she would go to night school and then come in and go to sleep. So she would never watch the news and stuff like that and she didn't know what crack was. She didn't know nothing about it, but when I told her I was selling crack, she threatened to kick me out of the house. And then I just started paying for stuff - paying her bills and giving her money, so she'd just tell me to be careful because there was nothing she could do to stop it.

It is not possible to rent a beach house within five hours' drive of one's hometown without being visited by people. This is especially true if I have actually invited them. One of my problems is that I like to be nicer than I actually am.

Most of Mark Zuckerberg's income is just rent collected off the millions of picture and video posts that we give away daily for free. And sure, we have fun doing it. But we also have no alternative - after all, everybody is on Facebook these days.

How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?

I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention.

We're playing small clubs and doing it all in a van. I have management, and they've done a good job of getting our tour plan together, but we're still having to go and rent the vehicles and all the little things you need to do. You really have to watch your budget.

I want to do some stuff in America, see things here. Maybe rent a driver and an RV. I want to see the redwoods. Bucket list. Something that's been there forever, one of the wonders of the world.

The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

When I was a teenager, we used to go to North Carolina with my family, and we'd all pile into, like, a beach house. We'd rent, like, two or three next to each other, because I have a humungous family.

I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

In Puerto Rico, there has developed a culture of taking out loans and not paying them back. That has ended.

If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.

After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

I learned a lot in my life by paying attention and listening to how people around me worked.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.

I started paying my bills with YouTube money around the time I hit a million views a month.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

Many of my 20- and 30-something peers struggle with student loan debt and high rent, and more than once, I've erupted in laughter at the idea that I will collect any Social Security in my Betty White years.

The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if they didn't have the rent money. Luckily, we were never evicted. But my father was unemployed most of the time.

I can't imagine being in a tour bus. It would be nice, but I think it costs $30,000 a week to rent. And I can't imagine spending what many people make in a year on a vehicle for one week.

I tried to work hard at school because I knew that my parents were paying a lot of money for it.

We can make America a clean-energy super-power and create good-paying jobs in the process.

We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.

We need a governor focused on job creation, bringing better and higher paying jobs to Mississippi.

Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

I would love to live in the wilds of nowhere, and when writing 'Chronicles,' I would occasionally rent a cottage in the middle of nowhere that had no mobile reception, but I'm not about to move away from my family.

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.

I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.

I got the Clarence Durbin Award, the Equity Award - which is cool because it has a cash prize which is cooler than a trophy, especially when you're a struggling actor, and you can't pay rent.

Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.

My family were very poor. We never owned a house, in fact, we were lucky if we could afford the rent. So when I bought my first home, it was a very emotional time for me.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.