Coins Quotations

Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

I love steakhouses. When I'm in Chicago, I know there's a Gibsons that's open late. 13 Coins at Sea-Tac Airport in Washington is a gourmet restaurant I love.

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

I usually have a few coins in my pocket when I'm playing, but the one I use to mark my ball on the green is a special silver coin that my wife designed for me. It has our wedding date inscribed on it.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.

I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom.

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins - rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I'd encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.

great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.

The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.

Everybody is full of crap. The coin of the realm is being full of crap. The best people - being full of crap are our leaders and our superstars.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing.

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.

Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.

If we put all the coins in a line on the pavement, it would stretch over 1km down the road.

I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece.

If the ECB has to intervene regularly to support the euro, it is sending the wrong message to the public, who will be carrying euro notes and coins in 2002,

It is key to inviting capital. If this project can bring some harmony to the judicial systems within each tribe, that's how you can get people to put coins on the table.

PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.

some of the coins are so rare that I hate to see them go.

Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.

Middle age is when you drink wine.... That combined with the health message means that you get a lot of aging baby boomers with coins in their pockets that are out to buy better quality wine.

Whether any of our coins in circulation in any of the countries will turn out to be useful, only time will tell, ... It depends how many people put notes away.

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

Keep your coins, I want change.

Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.

Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.

There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

Budget consolidation and economic growth are two sides of the same coin.

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases — as in the nature of things it must be — that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.

message and policy are very much a part, you know, two parts of the same coin.

I got here the same way the coin did.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

There is over $10.5 billion in coins in U.S. piggybanks right now. That's what we're going after.

We will have a youth auction starting at 3 p.m. on Saturday. The children will use play money to bid on coins like a real auction, but they get to keep the coins they buy.

We sell to the range of clients - to the family who are looking at one or two coins for their children all the way up to an investor of half a million dollars.

Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

People are welcome to bring in their own unique coins or collections to sell or have appraised, if they want to see what it's worth. People with large collections will need to make an appointment.

One guy had this can't-miss idea to go dig up old coins at the site of former disused government mints, and he just needed a bit of money to get started ... some guy had an idea for an indoor amusement park.

Coins are not money until it's monetized -- until the Treasury says they're money. They weren't legal to spend. It was simply a bright gold round disc. They were by order of the Treasury in 1937, melted down.

Dentist, n.: A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets.

It's felt it's too soon after the introduction of euro notes and coins for any change. The ECB will not do anything to overshadow that move.

It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.

It's a very difficult process to close the casinos. You have to off-load and secure all of the paper money and then lock the chips and coins into vaults. They're too heavy to move so they use them for ballast.

Do not throw coins when beggars stretch their hands for alms; help them to become self-reliant. Provide food and shelter, love and care, for the sick and aged.

It's not an issue we've had in any shape or form here. I don't want to speculate per se of this becoming a bigger phenomenon, but it would be fair to say that if there were more and more of these coins or pins put in the ice, then it would be something we'd need to make sure there's common sense and it doesn't get out of hand, really in line with all our clean-venue policies.

The investment in rare coins has captured the public's imagination. People feel in their gut that it's a bad idea. That's devastating for a governor who's never been flashy but had the Taft reputation for integrity and good judgment.

The counterfeit coins are not put into the Treasury; they do not obtain the Blessed Vision of the Lord-Guru.

I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

Initially, we've always strongly objected to any retailer having the coins before it's been put through the monetary system. As one of my favorite bankers said, these U.S. coins aren't Beanie Babies. It's the U.S. monetary system. There are rules and procedures that have to be followed.

I like to collect experiences the way other people like to collect coins and stamps.

In addition to their ability to generate money, these coins serve as integral markers of American history.

Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

I do think there is a loophole in the law here which needs to be addressed. Gold coins more than a few centuries old are such rare finds that they are always going to be of great interest.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

There's two heads to every coin.

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.