Top 1200 Paying Rent Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.' And I'm like, 'Cool... That's not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.'

Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.

Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger.

Coming up with a ballpark figure on how much you need to pay your expenses, such as your mortgage or rent, insurance, and utilities, is the first place to start when developing your ultimate goal of becoming a multimillionaire.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don't pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor's degree, but I'm still a cook.

'Rent' was wonderful in that I was able to adapt something that was beloved to fans, something that was very iconic, but something I had nothing to do with the creation of, so I was very removed. 'Perks' is different because it was my book.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.

We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.

If you've made enough money where you're not worried about the rent or survival, you start asking yourself why you're on this planet. Your point is to do the most good you can before you die - well, I could do more good if I didn't die.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

Six months after we started, in 1964, there was a day when we sold only seven sandwiches. If we'd taken all the money from the register, we couldn't have paid an employee, much less the food or the rent or all that. It could have been a turning point. We could have given up.

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

A more courageous empathy is needed in our country to see the struggles of people from factory towns to farm towns to city towns who can't even afford the rent in their cities anymore because costs are going so high.

I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.

There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25.

With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."

On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.

I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up.

As a Manhattan resident, I'm gutted by what certain landlords are doing, pushing folks who have lived in their apartments for decades out of their homes, as a greedy tactic to get more rent from newer tenants. It's one of the most disgusting, inhumane things I've ever witnessed in my beautiful city.

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.

By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture on those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention.

I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

You see politicians talking about negative gearing or tax on your second home - most people I knew growing up couldn't afford the rent, let alone buying a house, or a second house.

We grew up in Islington, north London, in a Georgian terraced house that nowadays would be split into flats. Our grandparents lived upstairs, there was another tenant living up there and downstairs was the office where people in the area paid their rent.

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

I clip coupons all the time. Why should you pay more for something that someone else is paying less for?

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

I love Monopoly. You know why? When I play Monopoly with you, I'm going to buy everything from Baltic Avenue to Marvin Gardens. If you get to my side of the board, you'd better roll boxcars, or you're going to pay rent.

Hey @justinbieber, how much are you paying your friend for pretending that it was HIS cocaine, and taking the fall for you?

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

We want New Hampshire to be a haven for entrepreneurs and inventors - the people who are creating the products and good-paying jobs of the future.

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.