Famous Quotes & Sayings

Siri Hustvedt

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

Henry Garza

I bought myself a pickup truck, a big one, four doors, with a DVD player for the kids. And I'm proud of it, because to be able to purchase something like that, it's just something we've never been able to do in our family, for generations. But when I bought it, man, I felt like I was stealing something.

I bought my first one in 1963 and never looked back,

Tom Cruise

I bought it for Nic. I just thought it was perfect for her and she's great in it. (It's) really a tour de force performance.

I bought him these lederhosen, and he worked up a comic routine. Everybody thought he was very funny.

Suki Waterhouse

I bought Doc Martens when I was 13, and I wore them pretty much every day until I was 20. They stank, and my dad wouldn't even let them in the house, but I was completely in love with them.

Brian Mitchell

I bought a weed whacker last fall, and it took me 20 minutes to get it out. I had to use box cutters to cut plastic and slice through thick cardboard, and pliers to take out the huge staples. I had to unbolt things and untwist things and unscrew things. By the time I got it out of the package I was too tired to use it.

Tom Cruise

I bought a sonogram machine, ... I am going to donate it to a hospital when we are done.

Harry Redknapp

I bought a player and within two weeks he doesn't want to be in England. He doesn't like the way we play and he doesn't like to be tackled in training!

Steven Wright

I bought an occassional table........sometimes it's a microwave oven.

I bought and paid for graduate school by buying and selling clocks.

Jason Biggs

I bought a mountain bike, and I started running. These are things I wanted to do in Jersey, but you know Jersey weather. So, the weight just came off.

James Bay

I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.

I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn't know how, and I wouldn't use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful.

Warren Buffett

I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

Bikram Choudhury

I bought a 1964 Bentley for $1,600 and re-built it over five years. When I drove it in Tokyo after that, it was the pride of the road. That car would command at least $150,000 today because 'Bikram' has restored it.

I bought 50 roses. That's a lot of roses. They did a wonderful job on that.

Certainly that would be the plan. You have a bunch of guys who've bought into what your system is all about, and I think that everybody's even more determined to get there next year.

Certainly if you bought it last March, it was cheap. It was a value stock. It is generally regarded as a well-run company with a big return on investment. Buffett likes beaten-up names and things you can feel, touch and literally eat. It fits his profile pretty well.

Bryan played the first 40 minutes and he came through alright. He was very rusty but he did quite well. He is a lot of weeks away from being the player the club bought and I won't rush him. I'll see how he is on Thursday. He definitely won't be in the 13 for Friday for but I could put him on the interchange (bench).

I'm always trying to find positives. I'm always challenging these kids, and I think they have really bought into what my coaches and I are telling them. As long as we give 110 percent and stick to what we do (best), I'm not mad.

My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.

My grandparents bought it about 1937, but the structure was built around 1915 for the sister and brother-in-law of John Henry Kirby, the big lumber baron himself.

Nicholas Kristof

My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife's grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States.

Steven Sinofsky

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.

Maybe everybody who has been buying a home has bought a home.

Now those same people are saying I should have bought two.

Bill Gross

Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.

New guns, there's nothing out there right now -- they're all bought up. Any lever-action Winchester, I can't seem to find right now, because Winchester is closing and people are trying to get a part of the history before it closes.

Gary Bauer

Nobody has ever bought me, Gary, and nobody ever will.

Frank didn't know until 2 p.m. yesterday that he was the winner, ... His winning ticket was sitting in an envelope at the bar, and even though they knew the winning ticket was bought at Pell Lake, nobody tried to look in the envelopes and see who had the winner.

Adrian Gonzalez

Friends and family have already bought 40 season tickets, and there's probably a lot more that I haven't of that are going to be there, so it'll be fun.

From our standpoint, we will give whatever we can to Children's Miracle Network because they bought two of the machines that saved his life.