Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hal Newhouser

Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.

Harlan Coben

I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.

Yara Shahidi

My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.

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.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

Sebastiao Salgado

! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.

I don't particularly care how many records we sell any more because we've kind of bought all the equipment we want to buy.

Victoria Beckham

My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

Annie Leibovitz

I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.

When at my heaviest, I wore 48-inch waist pants. I bought 32-inch slacks I'm planning on wearing this weekend at my son's graduation with the Marines.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When an industry matures, it means it's not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That's the obligation of the multi-national corporation: to put the factory where it can make the widget as cheap as possible. Don't get angry when a corporation does that; we've all bought into this concept. We live in a capitalistic society.

Zubin Mehta

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

No. I bought her something at Christmas time, but I didn't give it to her.

Peter Lehmann saved the growers, and Robert O'Callaghan stood in front of the bulldozers waiting to pull out the old vines. To keep the growers in business, Lehmann bought their fruit, made it into wine, and told the growers they would be paid when the wines were sold. It might have taken him three years, but the growers got paid.

Jerry Stackhouse

Nobody in this league is going to tell you that they don't want to start. I've bought into it, hoping there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. But do I feel I could be starting on this team? Hell, yeah.

Paul Jackson

Ninety per cent of adults have bought into these devices. People tend to replace them every 18 months to two years, whether it's through loss, breakage, theft or the contract expiring.

Mary Meeker

One of the greatest investments of our lifetime has been New York City real estate, and investors made the highest returns when they bought stuff during the 1970s and 1980s when people were getting mugged. The lesson is that you make the most money when you buy stuff that's out of consensus.

I was impressed so much I went straight over and bought my ticket,

Chris Rock

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand left!' Taxes didn't even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture.

One of the things we talked about was to get that talent she has to always be ready and play through those lulls. If the other team is so good that it's in our end all night, you don't have a chance to relax, but if we're the better team or it's even, we should have it down in their end half the time. She's been extremely alert. She's bought into it.

John Sculley

One thing about Apple is they have these fanboys - as I always say, 'Sell to the people who love us.' For example when they came up with iPad mini, everyone who had an iPad went out and bought a mini as well.

Christine Quinn

One of the things that drives me crazy as a professional woman is you'll have bought a suit, and you get home and realize you don't have a shirt to wear with it.

James Redfield

One thing we did to remedy the high prices, we bought these Scions, which are better on gas,

Khloe Kardashian

I bought Justin Bieber's house... He had, like, this nook under the stairs which I didn't need, so I covered it up. When I ran into him, he was like 'What did you do with the nook? I used to go in there and play video games.' When I told him it was gone, he was so upset. I didn't think this 20-year-old boy would even care!

Karen Finerman

Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

We did not buy these planes to increase American military capacity -- we bought them to prevent them from being a threat in some other part of the world and to help Moldova when they needed it.

There are plenty of rentals here. Some of them have some people living in them. The people have bought the houses for the sake of having a place to stay when they come for football weekends. That scares a lot of people that it goes that route.

Kara Swisher

I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.

I bought this place, obviously, as an investment. One always looks to maximize the allure. I saw it as an opportunity to showcase the house to celebrities and the type of people who might be interested in buying it one day.

Dirk Benedict

I bought this cabin as a vacation escape some 20 years ago. I knew one day I'd make this my permanent home, a place to raise my children. I feel blessed, I've managed to make my dream come true.

Donald Trump

I bought the land a number of years ago,

Ingvar Kamprad

I bought seeds for the garden and had great success with it, going around to all the houses in my village. After that year I could buy myself my first bicycle.

I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, 'There's water in the carburettor'. I said, 'Where's the car?' She said, 'In the lake'.