“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”
As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Context: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.
As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Variant: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.
“…an economic ignoramus unfit to oversee a fifty-cent raffle.”
Referring to Muldoon.
Source: New Zealand Wit & Wisdom (1998), p. 155.
As quoted in The Business of Baseball (2003) by Albert Theodore Powers, p. 61
“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie Halliwell
Variant: Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
In the self-interview on Stop Making Sense
Interview: Ian McDiarmid https://www.ign.com/articles/2005/10/12/interview-ian-mcdiarmid?page=2 (October 12, 2005)
“Who can measure the worth of a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo or Beethoven in dollars and cents?”
The Principles of Anarchism
