Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Quotes about pay page 4
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Courting of Dinah Shadd (1890).
Other works
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Everybody's Political What's What (1944), Ch. 30, p. 256
1940s and later
“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac
"The Ecological Conscience" [1947]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 346.
1940s
Source: A Sand County Almanac
Context: The direction is clear, and the first step is to throw your weight around on matters of right and wrong in land-use. Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays. That philosophy is dead in human relations, and its funeral in land-relations is overdue.
“My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Variant: One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.
Source: Brave New World
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“I write for love, but love doesn’t pay the bills.”
Stephen King book The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Source: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
“I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Source: 1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972), Matters of Fact and Fiction : Essays 1973 - 1976 (1978), p. 280
“It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”
Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) American economist of the Austrian School, libertarian political theorist, and historian
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
Attributed in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937) by Dale Carnegie
“who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“Nothing I like to do pays well.”
Charles Portis book True Grit
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 6, p. 141 : 'Rooster Cogburn' to 'Mattie Ross'
Naomi Klein (1970) Canadian author and activist
Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)
“Very occasionally, if you really pay attention, life doesn’t suck.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
Liner notes to the cast album Once More, with Feeling (2002)
“Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.”
Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Random Thought
2000s, Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays (2006)
Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“You can’t pay for tragedy with more tragedy, or draw life from death.” “I”
Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight
Source: Lady Midnight
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
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.
“Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Circus of the Damned
Source: Circus of the Damned
Paul Goodman (1911–1972) American novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist
“When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.”
Terry Goodkind book The Pillars of Creation
Source: The Pillars of Creation
“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
“Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“Hey Lucia, Pay up, suckah, Emma got dental with some dude.”
Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other
Source: A Hunger Like No Other
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Slays
“It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Wajma, p. 228
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Mine Till Midnight
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer
Source: My Name is Legion
“Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.”
John Steinbeck book Sweet Thursday
Source: Sweet Thursday
“Why is patience so important?"
"Because it makes us pay attention.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist
Shrub Flubs His Dub http://www.thenation.com/article/shrub-flubs-his-dub, May 31, 2001. Retrieved October 24, 2011. <br class="br">Context: The next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please, pay attention.<br>Bush was replaced by his exceedingly Lite Guv Rick Perry, who has really good hair. Governor Goodhair, or the Ken Doll (see, all Texans use nicknames—it's not that odd), is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But the chair of a major House committee says, "Goodhair is much more engaged as governor than Bush was." As the refrain of the country song goes, "O Please, Dear God, Not Another One."
