Famous Quotes & Sayings

Waris Ahluwalia

I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.

John Schneider

I'm actually from Mt. Kisco, New York, which is in Westchester County, and when I auditioned for 'Dukes,' I told them I was from Snailville, Georgia, which doesn't exist, and I'd just graduated first in my class from the Georgia School of High Performance Driving, which also doesn't exist. But they bought it.

Josh Holloway

I love it and I bought a house now. We've been remodeling,

It was a combination of people I've been involved with - my high school coach and especially my college coach, who instilled a lot of character. I picked up on a lot of different things that worked for me in high school and college that fit into the type person I was - and the girls bought into it.

It's very hard to get on that podium. It's not just practicing two hours . . . And all the guys standing up there bought into that.

Tarence Kinsey

It was a dogfight. We bought the fight to them. They brought it back to us.

It used to be, if you bought in Oakland, you were a pioneer, ... Now, there seems to be a pretty insatiable appetite.

The TV market is huge as consumers often buy a new and more stylish TV before the old one has died. But who has ever bought a second or third washing machine?

The U.S. July renewals will be stunning as they consist mostly of renewing disaster risks, and (rate rises) will be mostly north of 30%, maybe 40%. Not all primary insurers have bought cover yet - they are waiting to get lower prices, but they risk paying more (as the hurricane season nears).

The value of a frequent-flyer ticket at the end of the day depends on the value of a revenue ticket that you might have bought had you not used your miles,

They decided they were going to parade anyway, because they had bought all their costumes.

They bought me when they bought the business, and I think they got a pretty good deal.

They bought a lot of branches from Fleet, when they merged with Fleet Boston, ... I think you can look for 30 percent gains in that stock for the next two year.

They wanted the land worse than I wanted it. Times are changing. This is not the same Indian Land it used to be. I'm not fond of the way it's changing. The horse people are moving from Indian Land - the farms are being bought up.

Dylan McDermott

They wanted me to dress me more in a Sears look. I like good clothes. I justified it by saying my character would have bought them at an outlet store.

There's only one reason to buy stocks and that is to participate in a company's growth of earnings and I don't know any sector of the economy that offers superior growth prospects looking out two, three, four, five years than technology and selected Internet stocks. It's been working for 10 years now and I'm not going to buck a trend like that. You buy dips. We had one heck of a dip that reached a crescendo last week and people who bought Friday or early Monday have reaped very nice profits.

The toy category continues to struggle. Our survey shows that this year 33.5 percent of weekend shoppers said they bought toys compared with 37.5 percent last year. The big surprise was electronics, which came in flat with last year at 19.7 percent. One reason for this could be that people simply couldn't find what they were looking for.

The toy category continues to struggle, ... Our survey shows that this year 33.5 percent of weekend shoppers said they bought toys compared with 37.5 percent last year. The big surprise was electronics, which came in flat with last year at 19.7 percent. One reason for this could be that people simply couldn't find what they were looking for.

Matisyahu

I started out in the Chabad movement, and I started pretty closed up, with the idea of there being that 'this is it.' I bought into that fully. I really explored in depth the Chabad ideology.

Rodney Atkins

I started doing some demos and got online and bought a refurbished laptop, bought a microphone off of eBay. A lot of folks said you can't really do it that way at a pro level, but I did some vocals that way, turned it into the label and they said, 'Wow, where did you record this? The vocals sound great!'

What happened was they came to do a business inspection on Friday morning. The people bought it on the spot and we never re-opened.

We didn't have enough money so we bought what we could and the Trust for Public Land is raising the funds for the rest.

This is when people get the more traditional items to go with the trendier stuff they've already bought earlier in the year.

This is the last week, with nothing to play for and we worked a lot of extra hours to try to scheme Dallas a little bit. Our players bought into it. I am very proud of them. We talked earlier in the week. You are putting your resume out there. We are playing the last game of the season, national televised game, we didn't know whether Dallas would be playing for a playoff spot or not.

This is the highest the waters have come since we bought the place. The water rose fast and went down fast. We left about 8 and were back home by 12:30 p.m.

This kind of guy is renting space. He bought a cup of coffee in order to have some space.

I really have never bought into that San Francisco game, and maybe players might have a different view, ... My feeling coming out of that game, as heartbreaking as it was, was that I thought we were pretty good.

Investors have been buying a lot of securities in the last year that haven't made a lot of sense to buy. They bought stocks without knowing why, and so now they're selling stocks without knowing why.

Investors bought into Hilton's strategy of selling assets, buying back stock and moving to a more fee-based business ... This would be a dramatic shift in strategy,

John Rutledge

Investors should never buy a tech stock solely on the hope that it will be bought at a higher price.

In the late '90s, if you bought the dip you made money. Then the crash came in 2000-01, If you bought the dips then you just got run over.

In the old days, if you wanted 300 horsepower under the hood you bought a sports car. Now, you can get 300 horsepower in a wide variety of vehicles.

Internet gambling is an illegal and destructive activity. People have bought into the lie that because it is done in the privacy of their own home, it is acceptable. Nothing could be further from the truth.