Rent Quotes · Page 8

Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.

— Katherine Dunn

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

— Maj Sjowall

We need a politics that is direct, that speaks to people's own lives. If I tell you that I'm going to freeze…

— Zohran Mamdani

I used to think it was lame to live with your parents after college. Now, I see the true value of not…

— Anonymous

Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me…

— Jenna Dewan

You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.

— Matthew Desmond

Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.

— Anonymous

Cuz shorty's got a job, shorty's got a car, shorty can pay her own rent. Don't wanna dance if it is not…

— P!nk

“At the street corner, a one-storey house built of freestone, but repulsively decrepit and filthy, seemed to command the entrance, like a…

— Émile Zola

We grew up in Islington, north London, in a Georgian terraced house that nowadays would be split into flats. Our grandparents lived…

— Martin Kemp

I like a bargain. If I want to splash out, I can rent a luxury dress, especially if I'm only planning on…

— Laura Whitmore

Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get…

— Ben Foster

I liked Westerns for two reasons: First, it took the actor outside. They were all very physical at that time and not…

— DeForest Kelley

“Some people have just rented your body to live in it for sometime and depart. Others consider you as a permanent residence…

— Israelmore Ayivor

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and…

— Graham Norton

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if…

— Ed Bradley

“traveling as a pointless luxury, like blowing the rent check on a pink suit.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

— Anonymous

In a society rigged in favour of landlords over tenants, to rent privately is to be deprived of security.

— Owen Jones

As long as the rent's getting paid, you don't think about getting out of the game.

— John Cho

You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach.

— Jim Steinman

Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent,…

— Jean Rhys

“There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret or life is yours to miss. No other course, no other way, no day…

— RENT the Musical

My first month in syndication, I made about $100. I thought it would be exciting if I ever got up to the…

— Gary Larson

I know rent is due every day. It's always been that way for me... and when that rent is due, I don't…

— Jalen Hurts

AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space.

— Sam Altman

We lived in two rooms, sharing a kitchen and bathroom. We moved a lot - I suspect because we couldn't pay the…

— Jean Marsh

“Worry acts like a squatter, sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent!" EL.”

— Evlinda Lepins

I've had an unusual career in that I've never had a big break, but the rent always seemed to get paid.

— John Cho

The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has…

— Lloyd Dorfman

By the way, food and rent aren't the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers…

— David Ricardo

Subsidizing someone's rent is much cheaper than paying for new housing, police or medical responses, or hospital or jail stays.

— London Breed

I can never get my head round the prices of the houses we rent during the Open.

— Paul Casey

What most people call talent is our way to vent, and if were not discovered it will never pay the rent.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“When you’re dying in America, at the end of the millennium, you’re not alone”

— Jonathan Larson

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.

— Matthew Lillard

Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!

— Terry Pratchett

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I used to turn in, like, 20 money orders to pay my rent - $20 for this one, $30 for this one.…

— Ayanna Pressley