Cents Quotes

to ensure that 90 cents of every federal education dollar goes directly to the classroom ... not the bureaucrats.

If we got down to (90 cents).

It doesn't sound like a lot. And it isn't a lot but it's six more cents and when you put it in perspective it adds up.

[Earnings, at 47 cents a share, beat by 2 cents the consensus forecast of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call.] This is an exciting and extraordinary time for the company, ... are ready to rock.

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.

In rational dollars-and-cents terms, e-mail outsourcing makes a lot of sense. Most companies aren't doing very much (with e-mail) that is unique.

Despite flat revenue, we beat the Street's consensus (earnings forecast) by 2 cents and faced by far the stiffest advertising comparisons of the year.

It was a plug. What drove that number was the 41 cents, based on where all the other business units landed their quarters.

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

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.

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

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.

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

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.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.