"Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle."

Money, Work, Effort, Hollywood

33

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle."

Exlpore more Money quotes

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Money, Flattery, Vanity

"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."

Alice Walker, American Author

Money, People, Fact, Land

"I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent."

Mark Edwards, American Celebrity

Money, Politics, Mind, Pretty

"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."

Jay Chiat, American Businessman

Money, Technology, Information

"When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day."

J. D. Hayworth, American Politician

Money, Country, Day, Economy

"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

Money, Space

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Money, Evil

"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."

Horace, Roman Poet

Money,

"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."

John Spratt, American Politician

Money, Defense, Will

"I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had."

Terry Riley, American Composer

Money, Technology, Dance, Fact

Explore more quotes by Ben Hecht

"I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain."

Sports

"The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both."

Art

"People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized."

Sex

"Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it."

Business

"There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it."

Advice

"I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer."

Work

"Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos."

Advice

33

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Money quotes

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."

"I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent."

"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."

"When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day."

"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it."

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."

"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."

"I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had."

Explore more quotes by Ben Hecht

"I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain."

"The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both."

"People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized."

"Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it."

"There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it."

"Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat."

"I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony."

"In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace."

"I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer."

"Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos."