Penury Crossword Quotes & Sayings

If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit. — Tom Petty

Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree. — P. J. O'Rourke

Maniac kept trying, but he still couldn't see it, this color business. He didn't figure he was white any more than the East Enders were black. He looked himself over pretty hard and came up with at least seven different shades and colors right on his own skin, not one of them being what he would call white (except for his eyeballs, which weren't any whiter than the eyeballs of the kids in the East End). — Jerry Spinelli

I've always had an unsentimental view. I don't think the BBC is my auntie. I worked there for years, and you learn that they don't love you for yourself. They'll use you as long as you're popular. You shouldn't wait until it starts to wane. It can sometimes end badly. — Terry Wogan

The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own. — David Hewson

I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer. — David Keith

Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse. — Khaled Hosseini

The older Romans used temples as their banks, as we use banks as our temples; — Will Durant

Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman. — Stephen Richards

Religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion. — Nancy Northup

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time. — Taylor Momsen