For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff;… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Sorry, boyfriends everywhere—you’re doomed to sit through an hour and forty-seven minutes of syrupy drivel. The payoff? Between my face, Tadd’s abs… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
Spirit is the key to everything we desire. It is our weather-proofing, our Teflon, our line of credit that assures if we… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I tend to have a long con when it comes to romance, in part because I like the build-up as much as… — V. E. Schwab Copy Share Image
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call “belief”) play a poor, secondary role in human decisions;… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race… — James Cook Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money,… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,'… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards… high… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs.… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Doing these movies I've done with WWE, it's a different pace. It's a lot of hurry up and wait, a lot of… — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
It was all for the eventual payoff and thank-you by giving Hillary Clinton the Democrat Party presidential nomination. And it went awry… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton became president, and he [Bill Clinton] kept cheating - and she kept destroying the women. She was supposed to be… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long,… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
![“Bill Clinton became president, and he [Bill Clinton] kept cheating - and she kept destroying the women. She was supposed to be paid off in 2008. They gave her health care; she botched that. Hillarycare, it was called in 1993, '94, whatever. That was her first payoff. Co-presidency was the next…” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/253/rush-limbaugh-28_bills_bill-clinton-became-president-and-he-bil_1269987.jpg)
