Bottom Dollar Quotes & Sayings

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light. — Theodore Roethke

Picasso wasn't in conflict, you can bet your bottom dollar on that. He said, Scram! I need to work, and his mistresses and their spawn ran for the hills. Dickens wasn't in conflict. He had ten children and wrote as many novels in almost as many years, because it was both understood and appreciated that he was gifted, famous, and rich. The male artist has always been respected. — Kate Mulgrew

My own view is that, since we have it and since it gives such pleasure to so many, especially around the world, it would be folly to get rid of it. The backside of whom are we going to lick when we send a letter in the Republic of Britain? William Hague? Harriet Harman? An elected British President will not glamourize the heads of state of other countries when they come on a state visit. Compared to carriages, crowns, orbs and ermine, an entry-level Jaguar and Marks & Spencer suit offer no edge over other nations when vying for trade advantages. By definition half the country will despise a Labour President or a Conservative one, and you can bet your bottom dollar that politicians will ensure that, if we do become a republic, there will be little other choice than the major parties. Which, at the time of writing, might include UKIP. Lovely. — Stephen Fry

As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing ... he did not claim that God moves in mysterious ways. Instead he seemed to believe, as she did, though they never could have discussed it, that everything else is in motion while God does not move at all. God sits still, perfectly at rest, the silver dollar at the bottom of the well, the question. — Barbara Kingsolver

When I saw Adele, I thought: 'I'll give it an hour before people say I was her,' just because I was fat. When you watch 'X Factor,' you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist? — Alison Moyet

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil. — Jeff Ament

It's like a pistol in a stage play: when someone waves a pistol during the first act, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone will be shot with it before the curtain falls. That's the law of drama. The law that says no pistol must appear if no one's going to fire it. — Herman Koch

My body trembled as all the regrets of my life washed through me, my heart feeling as if it were on the verge of failing. My sould cried out for her. It had never stopped its search for her in nine years, and I could still feel her calling for me. — A.L. Jackson

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics. — Frank Rich

To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf. — David Clement-Davies

Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea. — Norman Ralph Augustine

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom. — Anzia Yezierska

And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying American dollar bills as has ever been devised by man. — Dana Rohrabacher

Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. — Gordon Sinclair

Help them, but don't make friends with them. — Pat Conroy

Lipstick on your collar said you were untrue. Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through. — Connie Francis

Apple is not thinking different anymore, they are getting worse by the day. They've become bottom-dollar and you can see that transition easily. — Justin Vernon

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life. — Paul Strand

People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!! — Cee Lo Green

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do. — C.S. Lewis