Louis Stokes Quotes

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.

'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'

Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King.

I'm not in business to make money.

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.

The moral problem of our day is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life…

When you see a situation you cannot understand, look for the financial interest.

When they [the Briton Nobles] are sufficiently inebriated, I will cry out, 'Nimed eure Saxes,' then let each draw his knife, and kill his man; but spare the king [Vortigern], on account of his marriage with my daughter, for it is better that he should be ransomed than killed.

I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it.

Can you do that?” Thomas asked. “Huh?” “Kill someone three times.” “I’d figure out a way.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

I rob banks because that's where the money is.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary. -Cat

The Carpetbaggers was the first big money I made. Money gave me a lot of freedom, but no matter how much you make there's always somebody chasing your ass for more.

Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.

The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever.

I’'d love to see Sting come back. The guys that had the potential to make any money and draw any money, they came. The ones that made it, made it, and the ones that didn’'t, didn’'t. The list of those who made it, there’s lots… the list of those who didn'’t make it are longer then the ones who did.