rent quotes

And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: they rent out my room.

-Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg Allen
Quoted in Eric Lax Woody  Allen and His Comedy (1975).

   The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

- Sir Wilfred Grenfell
  A Labrador Logbook.

   I rent everything, other than the gift of life itself, which wasgiven to me without any predictable lease, a gift that can be withdrawn at any time.

-Jerzy Nikodem Kosinski
  Interview given three days before his suicide, in the Weekend Guardian, 25^6 May.

The rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension, of the society.On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

- Adam Smith
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.11, conclusion.

Jazz musicians are not demigods. Theyare warm, vulnerablehumanbeings with a desperateneedtogo on paying the rent.

- Bruce Turner
  Hot Air, Cool Music, ch.10.