The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Robert Peel

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
Jerry Lewis

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
Arthur Ashe

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
Julie Andrews

For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.
Dennis Rodman

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.
Dennis Rodman

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
Morgan Freeman

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Van Morrison

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.
Megan Fox

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
Charles Babbage

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Anita Loos

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
Arthur C. Clarke

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
Linus Torvalds

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Linus Torvalds

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
Linus Torvalds

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
Sam Levenson