Loose Change Quotes

• Faith seems to grab people and not let go, but hope is a double-crosser. It can beat it on you anytime; it's your job to dig in your heels and hang on. Must be nice to have hope in your pocket, like loose change you could jingle through your fingers.

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  Judy Blundell

  Letting Go   Jobs   Nice  

  Judy Blundell (2011). “Strings Attached”, p.2, Scholastic Inc.

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• The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman.

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  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Running   Men   Bridges  

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1998). “The Club Dumas: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Even quarters. "I hate change," she said. "It's so . . . jangly." "Do you realize how much you must throw away in a year?" I said. "Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?"

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  Jerry Spinelli

  Hate   Kids   Years  

  "Stargirl". Book by Jerry Spinelli, August 8, 2000.

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• I have a million dollar figure ... but it's all loose change.

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  Joan Rivers

  Dollars   Figures   Loose Change  

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• Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

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  Billy Crystal

  Differences   Clothes   Looks  

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• People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.

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  George Monbiot

  Running   Believe   People  

  "Short Changing 9/11: Popular Documentary Takes Us Nowhere". www.alternet.org. February 16, 2007.

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• Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.

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  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Class   Down And   Rich  

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• What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

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  Gene Perret

  Grandma   Grandmother   Grandchildren  

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• Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

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  Anthony Marra

  Years   Different   Next  

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