Quotes of Copper - somelinesforyou

“ The combination of a sharp rebound in US equities, a slightly weaker dollar and strong Chinese data seems to have been enough to underpin the metals. ”

- William Adams

“ Most of the dollar's gains are based on the sell-off in the Australia and New Zealand dollars. ”

- John McCarthy

“ If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars. ”

- E. S. Kinnear

“ Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars… ”

- Charles Dickens

“ A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. ”

- Mae West

“ Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ I'm so rich, I wish I had a dime for every dime I have. ”

- Unknown

“ A nickel isn't worth a dime today. ”

- Yogi Berra

“ A nickel's worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines. ”

- Martin H. Fischer

“ My kid asked if he could borrow ten dollars. When I only gave him five dollars he said, "Okay, since you owe me the other five dollars, we'll call it even. ”

- Unknown

“ I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do. ”

- Evel Knievel

“ I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways. ”

- Martin Scorsese

“ Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket. ”

- Lee Trevino

“ Today's dime is really a dollar with all the taxes deducted. ”

- Unknown

“ Today's dime is really a dollar with all the taxes deducted. ”

- Unknown

“ A penny for your thought. ”

- John Lyly

“ A penny for your thoughts? "A dollar for your death.". ”

- Felix and Oscar

“ A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. ”

- Yogi Berra

“ Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom. ”

- Anzia Yezierska

“ Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ”

- Sam Ewing

“ I get so tired listening to, 'One million dollars here. One million dollars there.' It's so petty. ”

- Imelda Marcos

“ The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. ”

- O. Henry

“ Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it. ”

- David Brinkley
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