Nickel Quotes

“When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket.”

“Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!”

“Fight, fight, fight and get that money, money, money. ’Cause happiness can’t buy even a nickel.”

“For with each bite he tasted not just the irresistible sweetness of the dessert, but the deliciously agonizing negative flavor of all the imagined foodstuffs that he could have bought with that nickel instead—a turkey leg the size of his forearm, or a milkshake with a pair of deep red strawberries floating on its surface. The single relinquished nickel sat in the custard seller's till, its gold transmuted back to lead.”

“Once I stand and watch helplessly while some rug rat pulls everything he can reach off the racks, and the thought that abortion is wasted on the unborn must show on my face, because his mother finally tells him to stop.”

“All objects in the universe are unique. No two things that happen by chance ever happen in exactly the same way. No two things are ever constructed or manufactured in exactly the same way. No two things wear in exactly the same way. No two things ever break in exactly the same way.”

“A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.”

“You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.”

“You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.”