The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn’t care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.
Cheap fish has usually been caught in careless ways.
I write cheap recipes for struggling families and single people, and have donated 800 copies of my newest cookery book to food banks and other good causes.
I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don’t want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous ‘girl power’ sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it’s a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
On sensitive issues, talk isn’t cheap – it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there’s not, so it’s really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
I won’t wear fur – never, ever. I’m an animal lover. I wouldn’t even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.
Kids don’t come cheap.
Despite all the Internet has done to make prices transparent and bibliographic information universal, you can still find – at book sales and thrift shops, auctions and even fancy dealers – unrecognized or underpriced rarities. Getting something valuable for cheap is the basic, greedy thrill of book collecting.
The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete – a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.
I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. Not only is the mere drop in stock prices not risk, but it is an opportunity. Where else do you look for cheap stocks?
Some women are smarter than men, and some aren’t. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it’s free, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, it’s free – I have to take as much as I can!’
Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.
When I was 14, I bought myself a cheap electric guitar and tried to teach myself.
I don’t really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I’ve signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.
Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it’s going to be one of those really silly movies and that’s how it got made.
I’m a cheap date.
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.
Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It’s just the intensity. It’s an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.
When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren’t factored in to the pump price – among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.
Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn’t nourish the body – or the soul.
Use and beauty – these should be the ends of all human effort. But the competitive struggle swings us away from this high ground and plunges us into a quagmire fight for cheap goods and cheap labor.
I’m cheap, and I’m proud of it!
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
Accelerating technology innovations such as ubiquitous sensors, cheap computing power, and 5G networks will open entirely new opportunities and challenges.
Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a ‘bubble’ brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?
Can I just say that PBR is one of the most underrated beers of all time? And good God it’s cheap.
Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.
Visibility is one of the most difficult parts of the self-publishing equation. No matter how great your book is, it is fighting against a tidal wave of cheap ebooks on Amazon.
I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a day without makeup and a bouffant to match is a day wasted. I love it all – whether it’s fancy, cheap or, I’m ashamed to say, even if it’s bad for the environment.
The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit ‘comedians’ and create very cheap television programming.
You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It’s not cheap.
One of my first big paychecks, I used it to buy a Rolex. I bought a used 1968 vintage Rolex. I was too cheap to buy a new one.
Fandom grew first through individual correspondence. It was cheap and quick, continent-wide contact for a penny stamp.
I used to take girls out on a date to Night Court. And I’ll tell you, most girls, they got a kick out of going to Night Court. ‘Cause you get a lot of laughs… and it’s cheap.
It is expensive to live in hotels, even cheap ones – more expensive than renting.
Hua Hin is Thailand’s royal beach resort and home to the king’s summer palace. The local food is fantastic, the weather is beautiful, everything’s cheap and the Thai people are so friendly and warm.
America’s prosperity has been built on cheap fossil fuel energy.
We had to recreate the banks of the river Yamuna on a studio floor. It wasn’t easy… or cheap.
I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.
You look for the way something is built. You see a Prada bag and you look at the stitching at the back. If it’s a fake one, then they make it really cheap. If it’s a real Prada bag and I will look at it, I will count every single stitch and make sure they are exact distance apart.
Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light.
This whole business of calling farmers all kinds of cheap names, such as Khalistanis, Urban Naxalites, was resorted to by BJP to weaken and damage the farmers’ battle against the farm laws.
Scandal is like McDonald’s. It’s cheap and it’s easily accessible to the masses, and when you’re going to McDonald’s, you know that you can get a salad, but do you want a salad? No. You want a Big Mac and French fries with an apple pie and a sundae.
The brutal reality is that newer, more sprawling suburbs – and especially the cheap boom-years exburbs – aren’t just a bit unsustainable, they’re ruinously unsustainable in almost every way, and nothing we know of will likely stop their decline, much less fix them easily.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
When you turn your life over to God, you don’t give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.
Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.
I do a lot of social service and I don’t boast about it. I believe that if you give with one hand, the other hand shouldn’t know of it. I don’t believe in cheap publicity.
But I couldn’t cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it.
Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat – it’s easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.
We have relied on China for far too long to provide cheap labor and goods at the expense of America and our workers.
I’d get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little ‘wood shots’ down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn’t count the number of long outs!
I got by as a musician since day one. I don’t live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.
Big banks, highly leveraged casinos, do whatever they can to keep the cost of their gambling as cheap as possible. This means keeping interest rates as cheap as possible.
