Monetary Conversion Quotes & Sayings

Listen to me, you broken-fanged, moss-wiped excuse for a back-drafted blood bag! Jenks said, a silver-edged red dust slipping from him. — Kim Harrison

Dolly Parton ... I love being around that woman! I worked really hard to keep up with her. — Dom DeLuise

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself — Milan Kundera

In the absence of a widely practiced and capable attention to our use of the land, to the land-use economies, and to the natural sources of our life, we have a national, or global, economy consisting entirely of capital (rated at monetary value), minimal labor ("jobs," merely numbered, and the numbers always liable to reduction by technology), information (infinite perhaps, but never sufficient), marketing (seduction of the gullible), and consumption (conversion of goods into waste or poison). And so we have lost patriotism in the old sense of love for one's country, and have replaced it with an ignorant, hard-hearted military-industrial nationalism that devours the country. Under — Wendell Berry

Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that. — January Jones

A lot of the general population are wrong. — J.D. Robb

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. — Wynonna Judd

It's not about the powers, man; it's that we aren't kids anymore. Look what we've been
through. Look what we've done. Look at yourself, surfer dude. We've done something none of our
parents have even come close to. We didn't take over their boring world; we took over a world about a
thousand times tougher. If we walk out of this alive, we won't have to bow our heads to anyone. — Michael Grant

I've never been your boss, Alayna. If anything, you're the one who owns me. — Laurelin Paige

I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs ... — Cesar Aira

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles. — Ozzy Osbourne

My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb. — Jay Rock