Pay Quotes

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs.

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus.

And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and 'guaranteed this, guaranteed that,' they should be willing to pay for that.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.