Famous Quotes & Sayings

We pay our property taxes and buy our license plates in David City and that's about it. We do go to Bellwood occasionally for a steak, but from where we live Columbus is very convenient.

When potential buyers come from a search marketing program and land on your site, it is important to make sure they know where to go and how to get the discounts you advertised.

While most of our customers continue to buy performance-class PCs with Pentium III processors, others want a second, low-cost PC with the service and support Dell is known for,

Who's most likely to buy our products, who's least likely to buy them and who's up for grabs. This has given us a much deeper insight than we've ever had before using traditional demographic or vehicle segment-based models. One of the most important findings from this research is that there remains a huge market for American cars in this country. And the potential is significantly larger than the roughly 55 percent market share than GM, Ford and Chrysler together command today.

Rosamunde Pilcher

In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people buy the books.

Serge Schmemann

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

Serge Schmemann

Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.

Sherrod Brown

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

Firms that you can hold on to without worrying are seeing some buying ... Sony, Toyota and Canon are worry-free, and a lot of investment trusts are designed to include those kind of stocks.

Fiji is a hot, hot market, but you can't expect to come here to get rich quick. Most of the people interested in First Landing see buying a home in Fiji as an investment and a lifestyle move. But maybe a third see it as money.

Alan Arkin

Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don't go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.'

External factors are supportive and those who didn't buy yesterday are expected to enter the market today.

Exporters are likely to buy the Taiwan dollar before the year ends.

Falling stocks can prompt some buying of bonds.

But more generally, we're seeing a follow through on a lot of the value buying that lifted us in the summer and it's creating some psychological support.

But I wouldn't be in a rush to buy these stocks right now. Maybe buy a little bit. Keep your powder dry, and wait a couple of months, see what happens. I'm very worried about May. What is going to happen in the summer doldrums? Perhaps the market will correct again. You've got to be very careful here. So remember, buy stocks with earnings -- that's my opinion.

Amy Sedaris

Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next time I do your show.

Amy Chua

There's a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn't want to raise kids like that.

Alice Waters

I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.

Alice Waters

You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables, you have to be careful where they come from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers' market, it's already been investigated.

Alice Waters

When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.

Alice Waters

I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you're supporting the future of this country.

Alex Berenson

Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before the purchase is completed.

Alex Berenson

The lower spreads mean lower costs for investors, because Nasdaq investors generally do not trade directly with one another. Instead, they usually buy and sell from market-makers, brokerage firms that flip shares between buyers and sellers and keep the spread for themselves.

Alex Berenson

Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.

Pedro Pascal

I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

Peter Beard

I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

Peter Mayle

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.

Mayer Hawthorne

I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a lot of the other toys kids got. That's what I wanted. I've been collecting records and DJing my whole life, and I thank my parents for that. They had a big record collection and really imparted the magic of it on me.

Charles Spurgeon

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

The government would rather buy time and not put itself in a position to move forward on a criminal case but tie up the funds and continue to sift through the evidence.

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

Robert Reich

As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.