Lisa Scottoline Quotes

I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to me.

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash.

Weddings are super expensive. It is difficult to make money, but it flows out in weddings. Everybody wants it so elaborate without realizing it. People take loans to impress people. We didn't want to do that.

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.

I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

Gay marriage, I am so against it because if all my gay friends get married, it will cost me a fortune in gifts.

Everything costs and costs the earth.

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld.

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

It takes a lot of money to be a part of the ballet world. Both the training and the supplies are expensive, the shoes, the leotards and the tights.

It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?

Even though work stops, expenses run on.

Even a low-budget film costs way more money than a high-priced record. So, it's mo' money, mo' problems. When you have more money, it just creates more people trying to get involved and you have more trouble.

You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.

We spend a lot of money on protecting other countries. And yet those other countries aren't paying nearly what it costs us for that protection. We're - they're getting one of the great bargains of all time...