Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sadie Jones

When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.

We use what's out there instead of buying new.

Sharon Stone

I swear to God, I went in to buy bikinis, and the lady's like, 'You're not getting out of this store 'til you get down there and show me what you do for those abs and the arms.' She wouldn't sell me my bikinis! I had to get on the floor and do the stomach thing.

Talib Kweli

Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.

Trinny Woodall

English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.

Umberto Eco

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

Tony Hawk

When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's like sitting in an escrow meeting when all you want to do is buy a house, and you're signing 50 pieces of paper, but you have no idea what they're talking about.

Tony Hawk

Skating was popular, but it wasn't mainstream. It had this underground following, and you could go on tours, win decent prize money, and make royalties from signature products - that's how I came to buy a house when I was a senior in high school.

What we could see would be companies that stop using their own diesel generators and buy from official suppliers.

Ed Begley, Jr.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

David Brooks

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

Brad Bird

You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.

Benjamin Franklin

Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.

Eli Broad

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

What we need is to buy a speedway and I hope someday somebody will give me a phone call.

There is a segment of the consumer population that wants the convenience of transferring and printing images directly from the camera, without the cable, and it eventually will gain popularity. But first they have to buy the equipment necessary to do that.

There is a prevailing sentiment that a higher cost for a managed service buys a lower-risk investment. I don't buy that argument.

There are people who would be more interested in buying a laptop that runs Linux if they could get it pre-installed. But the main reason people still aren't using Linux on the desktop is the lack of Microsoft Office.

Kathleen Blanco

There are no fuel supplies, ... You can't buy gasoline at will to get in and out. You may end up stranded on the highway.

There are some stocks that are being sold for no particular reason, even though they weren't overvalued. When the dust settles, these may pose a buying opportunity. However, it may take longer for the IT-related stocks to recover.

There are some offerings, the crappy offerings, where the only people stupid enough to buy it are the retail investors.

Jerry Yang

The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.

Fred Davis

The only way we could do it is to buy a similar property in value.

Larry Smith

The only way to sell it that way is to sell for less, because the buyers take more risk.

There are expectations of good dividends and several buy recommendations from market players.

Michael W. Smith

There are dozens of willing buyers out there.

There are definitely signs that consumer demand has been picking up. Funds are buying heavily.

We decide to buy a ticket to where we have enough money. We decide to go to the Kansas City.

(We) decided to buy a house. It's better and more fun. We're starting to get involved.

Steven Johnson

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.

We tried to buy it when we first moved in, but it wasn't for sale.

We've been in and out of positive territory a couple of times. The resilience and underlying momentum, which is very much weighted on the buy side, is still there.

We thought we'd buy a condo. Then we realized we really needed a house.