Interview in Toronto Canada (6 September 2000), by Jim Kunstler, Metropolis Magazine (March 2001) http://www.kunstler.com/mags_jacobs1.htm
Context: I would spend a nickel on the subway and go arbitrarily to some other stop and look around there. So I was roaming the city in the afternoons and applying for jobs in the morning. And one day I found myself in a neighborhood I just liked so much…it was one of those times I had put a nickel in and just invested something. And where did I get out? I just liked the sound of the name: Christopher Street — so I got out at Christopher Street, and I was enchanted with this neighborhood, and walked around it all afternoon and then I rushed back to Brooklyn. And I said, "Betty I found out where we have to live."
Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas
“We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.”
Part II, Chapter 7, MTQ: Material, Time, Quality, p. 93
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”
Radio broadcast (March 21, 1943), cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 21 ISBN 1586486381
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.”
“I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.”
Source: The Big Sleep (1939)
“I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.”
Florida workers getting $5000 checks from BP -- but will it be enough? http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/nation/florida-workers-getting-5-000-checks-from-bp-733821.html, Palm Beach Post (June 8, 2010)
2010, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (April 2010)
Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.
“I would spend a nickel on the subway and go arbitrarily to some other stop and look around there.”
Interview in Toronto Canada (6 September 2000), by Jim Kunstler, Metropolis Magazine (March 2001) http://www.kunstler.com/mags_jacobs1.htm
Context: I would spend a nickel on the subway and go arbitrarily to some other stop and look around there. So I was roaming the city in the afternoons and applying for jobs in the morning. And one day I found myself in a neighborhood I just liked so much…it was one of those times I had put a nickel in and just invested something. And where did I get out? I just liked the sound of the name: Christopher Street — so I got out at Christopher Street, and I was enchanted with this neighborhood, and walked around it all afternoon and then I rushed back to Brooklyn. And I said, "Betty I found out where we have to live."
“One nickel, one secret. No exchanges, no refunds.”
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
