Paying Quotes

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
Tom Peters

Confused, Attention

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
Samuel Goldwyn

Change, Money, Words

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?
Kelly Osbourne

Trust, Lonely, True

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

Love, Someone, Anyone

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.
Layne Staley

Using, Lasting, Prior

Liberty is worth paying for.
Jules Verne

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
Dana Plato

Life, Experience, Heart

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
William J. Clinton

Time, God, Respect

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
Larry Hagman

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
Herman Melville

Between, Difference, Paid

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
James Lovelock

Power, Against, Surprise

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.
Mindy Kaling

Funny, Him, Thought

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.
Ryan Lochte

Yourself, Hard, Black

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
John Podhoretz

War, Country, Two

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
Ralph W. Sockman

Tomorrow, Regrets, Interest

Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.
Mike Rogers

Time, High, Concerned

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
Alan Rickman

Long, Customers, Slapped

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
Jon Meacham

Life, Diet, Hard

If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
Adam Carolla

Same, Said, Around

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
Joe Biden

Money, School, Law

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
Kristen Stewart

Life, Time, Famous

The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.
Thomas Frank

Health, Care, Else

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
Bill Murray

Money, Famous, End

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
J. C. Watts

Faith, Work, Family

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
Dick Gregory

Mind, Friendly, Country

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.
Lindsey Graham

American, Avoid, Taxes

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.
Kim Cattrall

Money, Smart, Mind

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
Bell Hooks

Health, Women, Black

Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Used, Less, Quality

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
Mahalia Jackson

Success, Thought, Started

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