“I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.” PersonsLongI CanPayBecomingNeededLong TimeManagersHomelessMortgage Author:Cat Power
“Well, it gives me the opportunity to make the movies that I want to do, because L'Oreal pays me very well. Also it means that I can work with great directors. My last commercial was directed by Erick Zonca, who made 'Dream Life of Angels.' And finally, it doesn't take up a lot of my time.” WantGivingWellsMeanMadeI CanDreamLastsOpportunityPayDirectorsAngelGive MeMy Time Author:Virginie Ledoyen
“I've got bills to pay like everyone else. I'm a high-earner but I don't see myself as rich. I know in some people's eyes I probably am, but I will always have to work. My son Matt asked me if we were rich the other day and I told him that in my view, being rich is not having to get up to go to work. I can't see myself ever being in that position.” PeopleIfsKnowsI CanEyeViewsPayRichPositionSonBillsGet UpMy SonBeing RichBills To Pay Author:Steve McFadden
“My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.” IfsWayWantNeedsI CanHardPlayWishCausesPayAttentionClassTeacherMissingCouplePay AttentionDamnPianoBeltsCdsMommaMusic TeacherMy Momma Author:Ester Dean
“I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.” ThinkingKnowsShouldKindI CanTodayPastPayAttentionGeniusComputerDisasterAll KindsPay AttentionClosestChipsParallelsInventingSilicon Author:Billy Zane
“I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow.” FeelsI CanFeelingsFallPayDependsSadSixWeakSticksSizeLegsShallowSkinnyBad DayGlitterHaving A Bad Day Author:Jewel
“Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them.” WellsDoeI CanPayHumilityBuddhismCompliment Author:Frederick Lenz
“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.” PeopleShouldYearsPersonsI CanHelpingAgeYoungWaterMy OwnPayCryYouthAffairFolksSuperiorsBoatManageReverenceInsistingMeddlingOar Book:The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval Source: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval
“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWritingI CanStoriesHouseFeltPayWalkingCreatingOkayDown AndDesertLeapChimneysLeap Of Faith Author:Stephen King
“I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together, you write a play and you act it out in 24 hours, literally. People pay and the money goes to charity. So I did one - I was horrible. I was bad. I was terrified. And I was like, "Oh, I gotta do this again." Because I know I can do it.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsI CanPlayTogetherActorsCan DoHoursPayCharityHorribleBunchTerrifiedBroadwayPlaywrightGet TogetherI Can Do It Author:Scott Raab
“Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.” IfsFirstsStillsI CanBigsCan DoLevelsPayBig ThingsHigh Level Author:Scott Raab
“I have a terrible problem with procrastination. A friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.” ShouldWellsSaidI CanIdeasProblemWaitingPayMinutesTerribleStrangerTherapyProcrastinationShould ITouringListen To Me Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“I need to be famous so I can talk about religion. I can talk about God. It's an expensive price that I have to pay to be the most famous man on earth and I do it with pleasure only for God. My fight is only and introduction to the real fight, the one for God. Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.” PeopleMenWantNeedsKindI CanRealHelpingEarthFightingBlackInterestPleasurePayMediaCharitySpreadExpensiveBlack PeopleMy ThoughtsIntroduction Author:Muhammad Ali