Our politicians (he argues) are so easily corrupted with small-change perks and so very stupid that they would approve a war simply on the say-so of ministers (suitably smeared in bullshit)? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Those very lives are themselves a means of achieving their goal, and dead children are the necessary small-change sacrifice which keeps the propaganda machine working. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Because Argentina is in the grips of a small-change shortage. ❋ George Selgin (2009)
I'm about to do a small-change fund-raiser here in Kentucky, and so we try to set a conservative, frugal budget. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Perry's campaign said it will likely stop using the code 'ASS 06' -- short for 'A Small Supporter' -- on the canceled checks of small-change contributors who donated pennies in protest of the governor's support for a new business tax. ❋ Bill Crider (2006)
Before rising to the top of one of the country's most prominent real-estate firms, Mr. Blau was a Wharton School M.B.A. Many of his classmates there would no doubt regard the seven-figure Bridgehampton purchase as a small-change transaction-and it is, compared to some of the deals that Mr. Blau has struck for Related. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And now, at age twenty-five or thereabouts, he was regarded (by that handful of souls aware of his existence) as either the most feared and mysterious member of the most feared and mysterious tribe in that part of South America or as an addled medical oddity cashing in on the small-change benefits of primitive superstition. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2000)
Did small-change jingle in your purse as you swung around the Wheel, did you hide your face in his wool lapels or did you kneel up in the seat, looking over the water, trying to see Denmark? ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)
These small-change clich\'e9s and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers. \par ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1973)
And the small absurdities, the "ruins" that they loved, the "abbeys" they erected, were only part of that general half-conscious striving to apprehend and express the spirit of romance with which we are still moved in our own day, which Kipling expresses in his own fashion and Conrad in his, down to the small-change of literature which struggles for expression in our magazines and periodicals. ❋ F. J. Widgery (N/A)
When she spoke to him he gaped or yawned; and yet she did not speak on weighty matters, just the necessary small-change of existence -- somebody's cold, somebody's dress, somebody's marriage or death. ❋ James Stephens (1916)
His small-change pocket held less than three shillings -- two and eight, to be exact -- and a brass key, which he failed to recognize as one of his belongings. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
I blessed Mr. Chittenden for having so thoughtfully provided me with conversational small-change suitable for Abbots. ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)
That unconscious familiarity with the past which is as the small-change of daily thought to us was a strange ❋ Unknown (1880)
They redescend into the stream of experience with it, and cash it into so much small-change value in the way of 'ideas' and their peculiar connexions with each other. ❋ William James (1876)
Let them be as varied as possible in characteristics; and, so far as convenient, try to include among them a considerable small-change of races, dispositions, professions, and temperaments. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
That unconscious familiarity with the past which is as the small-change of daily thought to us was a strange currency to his mind. ❋ Albion Winegar Tourg��e (1871)
But, since Congress has decided that we are to have not only silver small-change, but also silver dollars, and now that these have became again a part of the legal currency of the country; all three of our mints have gone to work and are coining dollars as fast as they can, for millions of them will be required, if we are all to use them. ❋ Various (1868)
When silver small-change lately came into use again, there were many boys and girls who had never seen a quarter or a half dollar. ❋ Various (1868)
Tim: "Dude, I heard you got with my sister last night at the [Drunken Barn Dance]. I'm gonna kill you!"
Jim: "HELL NO!!! I didn't touch that dirty-ass fat-ass rat-faced white trash gutter slut. I don't fuck around with small change like that. Now your mom on the other hand...that's one FIIINE old piece of ass! She was giving me this mean hummer in your house the other day, when your girlfriend Susie comes in. And you know what that trick-ass ho did? I'll tell you she got behind me and gave me the best asshole-licking EVER! Then I 69ed with Susie while your mom took it in the ass from [the UPS man]. What a grand ol' time! But shit, man, I would never touch your sister. That bitch is a broke down [penny piece] swamp donkey."
Tim: "Oh shit man, I'm sorry. I thought you were going for my sister. It's all good." ❋ Nick D (2006)
An excerpt from Small Change's-
Pasties And A G-String
Strip tease, prick tease, car keys blues
And the porno [floor show], live [nude girls],
Dreamy and creamy and brunette curls
[Chesty morgan] and watermelon rose
Raise my rent and take off all your clothes
With trench coats, magazines, a bottle full of rum,
Shes so good, to make a dead man come ❋ Frank Rider (2009)
