If you put 20 cents in me and ask me to talk about South Sydney, I'll play all night.
Damn, I can't wait until it get dark,
So I can light these fireworks up at the park,
And celebrate my independence,
It's the 4th of July, but I ain't got 10 cents.
Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.
I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
to balance my own checkbook each month, I simply record whatever is necessary in the following manner: '37 cents to cover embezzlement by somebody at the bank.
I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.
Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that.
A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.
I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.
At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.
Here's the crazy thing: if I was guilty I would be entitled to job training, housing, medical treatment. But I have nothing. I was released with five dollars and 37 cents of my own money.
Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and other have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.
The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.
I don't think you can measure wealth in dollars and cents. I really don't believe that at all because there are some things that money cannot buy. One of them is health. And the other is security in your relationships and friends.
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
I've got a kid in Africa that I feed, that I clothe, that I school, that I inoculate for 75 cents a day. Which is practically nothing compared to what it cost to send him there.
money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth.
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.
This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?
Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.
Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.
Based on census data from 2019, black women are only paid 61 cents to every dollar that a white man makes.
Thinking back, the majority of the conflicts I've had in my life have been a result of offering up my two unwelcome cents, crossing that line between constructive truth-telling and preaching.
I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.
I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.
This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.
I used to buy everything at garage sales. It was hard to give up! I’d be like, ‘But this crazy sweater is amazing, and it only cost 25 cents!’?
T.V. style pageant of people parading through Rudy Giuliani, now on the phone, if he doesn`t come in person today to get his two cents in.
According to a recent survey, kids are receiving an average of 40 cents less from the tooth fairy. That's right, the economy is so bad that even make-believe people are feeling the pinch.
Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.
I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.
Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.
The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.
This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
...you must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket.
My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.
I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents
It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent
Women get 77 cents on the dollar that men get for the same job.
This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true.
Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
[On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.
Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad.
I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.
The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.
My idea is that we've worked so many years for equality, but the only area where we've achieved equality, with men, is in job loss. We are still 77 cents to the dollar.
Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side.
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
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