Top 80 Dime Quotes

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

I can say this: I’m not going to be some guy hanging around and trying to make every last dime in this game. I mean, I’m really going to let the game just decide it for me.

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don’t waste a dime.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

If there are nine guys auditioning and they’re all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else – like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay – then that’s me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don’t have a dime in your pocket.

To this day, I still haven’t touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven’t blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you’ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

My grandfather came to Canada from Romania just before the Second World War, already in debt after buying his boat ticket on borrowed dime.

We’ve seen more reform in the last year than we’ve seen in decades, and we haven’t spent a dime yet. It’s staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

I want nothing for myself from being Governor. I don’t take a salary or PEIA, I don’t need business connections or the next hot tip. I drive myself everywhere I go, without taking a dime from the state.

Candidates are up one day, down the other. Candidates’ fortunes turn on a dime. They can be determined by a good or bad debate performance.

In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you’re cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don’t need to spend a dime. You don’t have to worry about bills.

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I’ve never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

It’s the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

For my 10th birthday, what I wanted was Beatle boots and a Beatle wig. My parents couldn’t find Beatle boots, but down at the dime store, Woolworths or someplace, they found a Beatle wig!

In Nashville, good guitar players are a dime a dozen.

All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I’ve not seen a dime at this point, either.

Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different… to think out of the box.

Dime knew the importance of every aspect of playing the guitar.

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren’t related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money – it was horrible.

You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

It’s all about culture. If you can get the right people with the right mindset, the right core values and the ability to change on a dime, then you have the ability to invest and do what’s best for the health and long-term value proposition of the business.

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.

Sure, food stamps are occasionally misused, but anyone familiar with business knows that the abuse of food subsidies is far greater in the corporate suite. Every time an executive wines and dines a hot date on the corporate dime, the average taxpayer helps foot the bill.

Every day is different; you never know what to expect, and you have to be ready to pivot on a dime.

When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime – and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store.

A loaf of bread is $3-plus, and you can make an organic loaf of bread – that tastes a hundred times better, by the way – for probably a nickel or a dime.

A beautiful face with a sexy body is a dime a dozen in showbiz. When you have magnetic personality, you beat everybody else.

I’ve never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they’d just give me a bunch of words, I’d make up a song! The rhythm and everything. ‘Good Golly Miss Molly’! And I didn’t get a dime for it.

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

The dollar is a winner. The euro is a tie. Get off the dime, Europe, and play to win.

The sacrifices you make in your 20s pay off 30 and 40 years later. The same is true when it comes to financial progress. Every dime saved in your 20s turns into a dollar in your 60s.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Life changes on a dime, so live life to the fullest.

I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.

I’ve never made a dime from a record sale in the history of my record deal. I’ve been very happy with my sales, and certainly my audience has been very supportive. I make a living going out and playing shows.

Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you’re there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.

History doesn’t turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.

If I didn’t believe in what I’m doing, I’d rather go to work in a dime store.

Any of Bette Midler’s concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the audience in the palm of her hands at all times and can switch emotions on a dime: Great singer, great actress, great comedian – fearless.

When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It’s purely historical. I’ve never made a dime on any of it.

Before I started my company in 1998, I worked for big companies traveling a lot and saw firsthand how much waste there was. I was flying across the world in first class to places like Italy or Hong Kong, where I was staying in 5-star hotels, only to nickel and dime someone over a sweater price.

What’s so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It’s like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s what you do with them that counts.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

My guitarist husband, Mike, and writer me are the old-fashioned kind of bohemians. Not ‘fro-haired hipsters gyrating in iPod ads, but the sort who, starting January 1 of every year, literally don’t know where their next dime is coming from.

With every story that TV covers, somebody – some corporation, some shareholders – are making money. That’s true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that’s sold, somebody’s making a dime.

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don’t have any awareness of the character.

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

I guess I’ve always lived the glamorous life of a star. It ‘s nothing new – I used to spend down to the last dime.