My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
Billy Corgan

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Jean de La Fontaine

I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
Whitney Houston

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
Little Richard

She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'
Amy Tan

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.
Method Man

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.
John Mellencamp

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.
Klaus Kinski

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Morley

I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.
John Mellencamp

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.
Maynard James Keenan

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
John Dryden

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
Bo Bennett

I don't really care about, Oh I really have to sell these things.
Thurston Moore

You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday.
Jennifer Love Hewitt

Don't try to explain it, just sell it.
Colonel Tom Parker

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.
Kate Clinton

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.
Rory Bremner

I told you to sell it, not give it away.
Jerome Robbins

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
Jack Vance