Famous Quotes & Sayings

I realized that potato chips were no longer a choice for me, I just didn't want them. I stepped back and realized that was a little victory. That day, I went out and bought a pair of shoes to celebrate!

Michael Mann

I realized horses have personality when I bought one and I had one, who's now out to pasture, a horse named Drifter. Before that, I was a city boy. Horses, I used to go out to the LaBagh Woods and ride at a stable once every two years or something; no idea about horses. Dogs, I knew, had personalities, but not horses.

Mike Holmgren

He's worked very hard. He's bought in. He hasn't given up when it seemed a little grim at times in the last couple of years.

Michael Graves

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.

I don't know if there were any others. I'm sure there possibly could have been, but I don't know if there was. I had been there six years and bought our dream house that we moved into two years ago with some land and things that I wanted. We really thought we'd be there.

High-techs have been laggards for some time, so investors know that they can always snap them up ... If high techs don't get bought the Nikkei can't push higher.

How did the kids do it? They play with so much heart. Each game they kind of treated it like a season. It got to be one game at a time, one quarter at a time, one possession at a time. They bought into that, and then it started rolling.

He's really bought into the man-to-man defense, and really turned into a leader. He's always guarding the other team's top player, and at times carries the team on his shoulders on defense. He's such a leader by example, such a great kid to have around.

He's one of those kids we never thought would play football (in high school). But he's bought into it. He's gotten a lot stronger. He's a good kid.

Glenn Hoddle

I've spoken to Jackie and there is nothing in it. Jackie has just bought a house down here and he has no problems with the club.

Craig Johnson

It would be like when Ford bought Jaguar a while ago and changing its name to Ford-England.

It was tough for me because every one of them brings something different to the table for us. They all bought into idea that collectively we can be very good.

It was what we call a sword cane, ... She was unaware of it. She told us that she had bought it at a flea market.

Norman Lear

It's a happy coincidence that when we bought the Fantasy catalog we were also able to sign one of the most relevant and talented singer-songwriters of our generation. We're all enormous fans of his music. He's a big hero here.

Gene Chizik

I told them we're going to be physical. If you're not willing to be that or can't be that, you won't be playing. They bought into that. There's no other way to play defense the way we see it.

It surprises us when the money is unclaimed. You never can tell just why. Someone might have been here on vacation and bought a ticket. Sometimes people just forget to check and then forget they have it.

John Perry Barlow

If you have the 'Total Information Awareness' project working, it might be relatively easy to find everyone who had bought more than a ton of fertilizer and 500 gallons of diesel in the last year, which would be a great way of spotting potential Tim McVeighs - but it would also spot half the farmers and ranchers in America.

If you've never bought a car, you don't know anything about maintaining a car. (Young buyers) don't figure out how much the car is going to cost them the whole year.

In the summertime, it really made sense to me. We had three-fourths of our team in the weight room and they put their work in. These kids have worked harder than any group I have ever seen. They've all bought in to the things we're preaching.

S. Truett Cathy

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

Rose George

In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.

Carrie Underwood

Instead of going through it all twice, this mashed everything together, I went to a record store this morning and bought my album. ... It's been surreal.

Do your math. Packages are built with a fixed airfare. If there is a major decrease in ticket prices, you're going to pay more for the package than you would if you bought air, hotel, and car separately.

During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We simply counted up their stuff and either bought more of the same or upgraded our technology.

Margaret Heffernan

Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.

A pig bought on credit is forever grunting

Rebecca Ferguson

After 'X Factor,' I got loads of gigs. Then I went on holiday just after the tour and bought my Rolex in Tenerife. I needed to go through that phase - splurge and see that it's worthless - to get it out of my system.

John Adams

The old boys are really looking forward to this. Some of them have gone out and bought new berets or blazers just for the occasion, so they'll look their best.

After Christmas, the kids bought into the fact that defense will keep you in games.

Some people come in to buy pieces for themselves, but a lot of our items are bought as gifts.

Someone told me a woman bought a dog so she could take it to the same park where I go running, but I'm hoping that's rubbish.

One guy came in and bought four and another bought 12 this week.

Casper Dien

I've already bought a script - a love story - that I plan to produce.