Top 144 Nickel Quotes & Sayings

I can't throw a nickel from the Capitol without hitting a think tank that's been financed by one of the Gulf States.

Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.

You cannot get one nickel for commercial flying.

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!

It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

I took some sense and made a nickel of it.

I did think that it'd be truly cool to be a foreign correspondent, and it was. There is a degree of freedom - and the right to roam the earth on somebody else's nickel.

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about

Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.

I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.

For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.

Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes.

We all want the same thing, love and acceptance. That's pretty much it. And what I've learned is that unless I'm happy with my side of the nickel, it can change violently - quickly.

What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

When the opportunities come, we may not want to buy another nickel asset, but if something comes cheap enough, we're all about return on equity.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay a nickel in some cases in federal income taxes.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

I must be cheaper now than I was ten years ago in order to get a laugh. It's not funny now if I leave the table and give the waiter a nickel tip, which was a laugh years ago. Today I must maneuver it so that somehow I get the waiter to give me a nickel tip.

A nickel is not worth a penny more.

Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?

Nobody talks about Shaq Thompson. I don't know what he is. He's like a nickel corner/linebacker.

As a quarterback, you have to be able to nickel-and-dime down the field.

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

If you look at just right, there's not a nickel's worth of difference between what Buck Owens and the Buckaroos played on 'Buckaroo' and what the Ventures were playing. It's all that twangy instrumental stuff.

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

The nickel spot, inside. It's the hardest position to play. It's harder than outside.

We have a lot of taxpayers in this city who deserve to get every nickel of their tax dollars that they're entitled to from Washington, and I intend to make that happen.

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.

I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

I subscribe to the slow nickel theory. You take a little bit at a time. You always make better of what you have when you don't have best.

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

Me being able to move around, nickel, dime, safety, you don't know where I'm coming from or if I'm coming, and that's a positive.

Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; 'The Grapes of Wrath' has turned into 'Nickel and Dimed.'

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. . . .

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.

Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.

We didn't know anything about publishing. The first go-around we didn't make a nickel.

Nickel for my thoughts, dimes in my bed. Quarters of the kush shape the lines in my head.

You know if I had nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden.

Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

If I had a nickel every time someone asked me if I was going into the Hall of Fame, then... I could buy a lot of stuff.