“We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.” FiveCostPaidStealingSupposed To BePoundsEquipmentGigsPetrolMarquee Author:Andy Partridge
“If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.” IfsThinkingStillsFivePaidDollarsColumns Author:Dick Schaap
“The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies - easily checkable, blatant lies - and I'm not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men - 15 of them are Saudis - and five minutes later the whole country thinks they're from Iraq - how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors.” ThinkingMenCountryStatesWholeFactsLyingTalkingFiveMinutesIgnoranceHugeTerriblePaidIraqTerroristHave FaithSeptemberFive MinutesCiaSeptember 11Not TalkingSaudisDividendsPublic EducationTerrorist AttacksCovertSeptember 11 2001JurorsBlatant Lies Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.” ThinkingShouldTwoBookDifferentFactsAttentionFiveElementsSixPaidAppearanceTricksVainPropositionsGeometryAlgebraObtainingGeometric Author:Omar Khayyam
“Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.” MeanFiveThousandFameGloryPaidDinnerNewspapersArticlesTwelveCrowns Author:Honore de Balzac
“People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.” PeopleWantYearsWellsKidsFiveSixDeservePaidTreatedRubbishLotteryApprenticeship Author:Daley Thompson
“Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.” ActorsSocialMillionsFiveConditionsTvsMessagesPaidDollarsNineLikesMillion Dollars Author:David Brinkley
“One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack on the way poets were neglected. Yet there were about two thousand people present, and he was being paid five hundred dollars for delivering this attack.” PeopleWayYearsTwoAmericaFivePoetThousandHundredYears AgoPaidTwentiesDollarsSurpriseHearingBitterFive YearsNeglectedHarvardTwenty FiveDelivering Author:Stephen Spender
“Show me a chief executive who’s on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities — and I’ll show you a company that’s underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That’s the CEO’s job.” ShowsRunningJobsNamesCommunityCompanyFiveActivityPaidChiefsBoardsExecutivesShow MeCeoPrestigeChief Executives Author:Albert J. Dunlap
“Yeah, playing anywhere from three to five gigs a week definitely [helped]. I think all the practice throughout the years and doing what I do paid off.” ThinkingYearsThreePracticeFiveWeekPaidYeahGigsPaid Off Author:Bo Bice
“Photography is an individual passion of mine. I don't get paid to do it, although people offer me money. I do it because I love it, and if there's no money attached, I don't have to do anything. It's my weekend away, my vacation, whether it's an hour or five hours or editing photos on my laptop in the middle of the night. It gives me relief from all the other stuff.” PeopleIfsGivingNightPassionIndividualStuffHoursFiveMiddleMinesOffersPhotographyGive MePaidReliefWeekendVacationEditingNo MoneyMiddle Of The NightLaptops Author:Nikki Sixx
“I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole conversation about prison reform, the whole bipartisan dialogue that's been happening over the past five, six years about this, where you have a Van Jones and a Newt Gingrich, and you have the Rick Perrys and so forth getting up and talking about the need to reform.” NeedsFeelsYearsHas BeensWholePastAttentionTalkingFiveConversationSixHappeningsPaidImpactPrisonDialogueReformVansOver The PastBipartisanNewtsPrison Reform Author:Ava DuVernay
“The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.” WritingFirstsStoriesFivePiecesPaidDollarsNewspapersShort StoryPublicationSyndicate Author:Theodore Sturgeon
“For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.” YearsGirlFeltClassFiveBasketballPaidFive YearsOther GirlHigh Class Author:Dennis Rodman
“Hey Deion, Bubbelah - maybe you'd better pay a little less attention to those unfairly Draconian salary caps that only allowed you to acquire four of the five remaining 1932 Aston Martins still in road-worthy condition after you'd paid for life's little necessities like hookers and weed, get your medulla oblongata out of your duodenum for a few milliseconds, and make a tackle or two, okay, Babe?” LittlesStillsTwoPayAttentionFiveFourConditionsFootballOkayPaidWorthyHeyAcquireWeedSalaryCapsBabeDraconianAston MartinSalary Caps Author:Dennis Miller