#paying

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#apartment #being #day #day to day #dues

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#better #customers #front #i #improvise

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#consecrated #continues #generation #god #house

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile. ↗

— Bryan White

#best #deserve #entertainer #extra #extra mile

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#folks #get #more #organization #organized

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#attention #congress #constitution #erosion #getting

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#burns #choose #concern #debt #diet

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things. ↗

— Iris Dement

#around #attention #came #i #just

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#great #great discovery #literary #literary men #literature

Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#big oil #companies #did #energy #failed