Top 202 Pays Quotes

Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy – let’s imagine we have two farms, and that’s the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?

Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don’t write down an elaborate plan. It’s really done by feel. It’s one area of my writing that I think I’ve got surer at as I’ve evolved.

There is no denying that TV pays really well.

When you live with someone, it pays to buy them a gift that you would love to have around the house.

I have never hurt anyone, and that pays back. I have always wanted good for everyone.

I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

In life, sometimes it pays off when you really don’t give a damn.

I always believe that it is his hard work that pays for a film’s success.

In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The lower monthly payment helps with affordability, giving stressed homeowners a break.

Boxing is what pays my bills.

A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two.

I strongly believe in the saying that hard work always pays off.

Of course, fighting’s first. That’s what I do; that’s what pays my bills, you know.

You can’t do business with a man who doesn’t know the meaning of a contract. You can’t do business with a firm who swears they’ll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can’t do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.

I’m the spokesman for ADT, and ADT, brother, pays better than most actors make on film.

When the record company pays you an advance, it is just that – an advance. And it’s at worse rates than any bank would charge you to pay them back.

An Arab who works and pays taxes is good for everyone. An Arab who doesn’t work and receives social security stipends is bad for everyone.

I don’t think it’s a bad thing to say everybody pays $10 and if you go to vote you get your $10 back. And if you don’t vote that money goes to support the election process.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

When something you use again and again is on sale, take advantage. This strategy doesn’t apply to perishable items, and you don’t want to buy so much more than you need just to get a deal, but if you know you’re going to use a product eventually, it pays to take advantage of the cheaper price.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.

If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America’s infrastructure needs are enormous.

I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I do not intend to discuss that point. We of the staple and exporting States have long settled the question for ourselves, almost unanimously, from sad experience.

A constant stream of ‘free’ money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do – it doesn’t need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn’t have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

New Labour has deregulated, liberalised and privatised – but every time the private sector fails it is the taxpayer who pays.

I know some people whose father has basically spent their whole inheritance on scammers. He’s old; he wants to feel important, like he’s doing business, so he goes to his bank and pays out – it’s terrifying.

Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.

I had done plays, and Hindi theatre pays peanuts.

In a Ponzi scheme, a promoter pays back his initial investors with money he has raised from new investors. Eventually, the promoter can no longer find enough new investors to pay off the people who have already put up money, and the scheme collapses.

In the case of the cashew, someone, somewhere, a long time ago determined that it had to be roasted. The cashew was once nicknamed the blister nut, because if you try to eat it raw from the tree, your mouth pays the price. The cashew is not a nut, however; it’s a seed.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

To be an icon is a big job – it’s beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn’t.

Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that’s left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.

In this business, believing in your work, being patient and consistent always pays off.

I get enthused by good football because I love this sport. I don’t care about which jersey the teams are wearing or which sponsor pays them.

Ed Sheeran? I don’t like the fact he gets a lot of stick. I like the fact he works hard, and God knows how much money he pays to the tax man each year.

I think theater is the strongest place to find what’s missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.

There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it’s their job to only have one opinion, they can’t tell you about their feelings. They have to go with what pays their bills.

When anybody pays you to be creative, you’re very lucky.

I’m so lucky that ‘The Vampire Diaries’ happened. I’m so lucky that Warner Bros. pays me money. You have no idea. I should be on a fishing boat with my dad.

Trump, despite his divorces and ‘worldly lifestyle’, appeals to evangelicals because he is wealthy, powerful, and pays them lip service. They support him because they are tired of losing the culture wars and are addicted to the perks of power.

Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they’ve lost is the argument that we are a society.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.

We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

In the end hard work pays off.

Hard work pays off if you stay true to yourself and dedicated.

Crime does pay, it pays well. But what they don’t tell you is you have to pay it all back with interest.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

When you play defense what happens is everybody pays attention and they start talking about how you’re the stopper, you can stop this guy. All of a sudden your game gets better on the offensive end and you become that versatile guard that everybody wants.

There’s no secret it’s hard work. Even though Brian’s the love of my life, and he’s absolutely adorable, it’s not easy, and we have to work at it. But because we love each other and keep working at it, it pays off.

The President’s budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.

I don’t think it pays to just be an artist, particularly for kids of color – there will be fewer roles.

What’s most exciting about the ‘Cobra Kai’ series is that it pays homage to the legacy; it has the nostalgia sprinkled throughout, the callbacks to all the stuff the fans would want to see. It has a completely fresh, relevant angle into the next generation.

Patience pays off.