Edward Abbey Quotes

What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.

Edward Abbey

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• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • School
  • Family

• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Money
  • Lose
  • Never Forget

• I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fashion

• It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Money
  • Suicide
  • Tried

• I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Education
  • Care

• At the end of the day, it's all about money.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Money
  • Day
  • End

• I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • World
  • Money
  • Business

• I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!

  

  Carly Craig
  • Work
  • Money
  • Feel

• I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Money
  • Job
  • Always

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Money
  • Die
  • Habits

• Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • Money
  • Why

• Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
  • School
  • Money

• I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Religious

• If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • You
  • Count

• Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Work
  • Money
  • Win

• They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Money
  • Movies
  • Hollywood

• I strongly believe in a free market, and it is great when companies make money and pay their people well.

  

  John Delaney
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Giving

• Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

  

  Amy Richards
  • Women
  • Feminism
  • Reinspired

• The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Understanding
  • Suffering
  • Child

• What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Money