Rent Quotes

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.

~ Jonathan Larson

Some people have just rented your body to live in it for sometime and depart. Others consider you as a permanent residence to dwell in forever. Which ever, you must remember to accommodate all those who want to be accommodated. Be each other's keeper

~ Israelmore Ayivor

12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Give into love or live in fear.

~ Jonathan Larson

Love is the luckiest tenant in the world, living in the hearts of men and women rent free.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If only employees knew this...there is no hand out just because you got a degree. You still gotta make $ for the biz (employer), if you choose not to make $ for yourself (freelancer / ent).

~ Richie Norton

It looked like the kind of place where people were shot over the rent money.

~ Amy Stewart

I've often wondered - where do the people who WORK at coffee shops go to meet their friends - Do they go to Conference Rooms? And if they don't meet in conference rooms, I'd like them to know I'd be willing to rent out my grandma's basement.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz

~ James Lee Schmidt

The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ferried the cream of society across the void in opulence and style. Only the wealthiest could afford an apartment on this ship for a trip of any duration, even a short one around the proverbial block. Even the crew was obliged to pay rent.

~ Christina Engela

Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

~ Steven Magee

If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But apparently you don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the cruel irony that prosperity is shrinking the stock of affordable housing nationwide: The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on rents.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

At the street corner, a one-storey house built of freestone, but repulsively decrepit and filthy, seemed to command the entrance, like a gaol. And here, indeed, lived La Méchain, like a vigilant proprietess, ever on the watch, exploiting in person her little population of starving tenants.

~ Émile Zola

...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, nor even HIV - I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay does not make one witty (you can suck a mile of cock, as my friend Sarah Thyre puts it, it still won't make you Oscar Wilde, believe me), the only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.

~ David Rakoff

Girls did that then – knocked themselves out to support some man’s notion of his own genius. What was Gavin doing to help pay the rent? Not much, though she suspected him of dealing pot on the side. Once in a while they even smoked some of that, though not often, because it made Constance cough. It was all very romantic.

~ Margaret Atwood

When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him, they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

American consumers benefit from disparity & exploitation. I benefit from disparity & exploitation & so does my family. there is no way to be a consumer in this country without causing pain --casey gray - author of Discount - & my New HERO

~ Casey Gray

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn’t have to work until retirement comes to their rescue.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The office’ is a cemetery of dreams.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Worry acts like a squatter, sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! EL.

~ Evlinda Lepins

the rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries.

~ Charles Bukowski

It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.

~ Barry Sternlicht