Nickels Quotes

“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.”

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

“(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.”

“Change doesn’t come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat.”

“You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.”

“Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.”

“I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards”

“We were poor back then. Not living in a cardboard carton poor, not “we might have to eat the dog” poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald's was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and collecting nickels and dimes from the washing machine because she never got allowance, that kind of poor… poor enough to be nostalgic about poverty. So, when my mom and dad took me here for my tenth birthday, it was a really big deal. They’d saved up for two months to take me to the photography store and they bought me a Kodak Instamatic film camera… I really miss those days, because we were still a real family back then… this mall doesn’t even have a film photography store anymore, just a cell phone and digital camera store, it’s depressing…”