Famous Quotes & Sayings

The courts will take into consideration whether he promised to give you a share of the house so that you didn't buy your own place, but it's very woolly.

Paul Schrader

The problem with The Exorcist was that I wasn't holding any cards. They paid me for the movie, so they own the movie. It's like if you made this chair and I buy it from you. You want me to sit on the chair, and I want to put it in my fireplace. What are you gonna do? Time to go off and make another chair.

The problem with seafood markets is they buy only once or twice a week, ... I buy fish and scallops every single day. That's the secret, and it's not a secret. It's just that people don't want to do it.

The real driver of the gold price continues to be lack of selling, leaving a small volume of investment/speculative buyers calling the shots.

There is a lot of buying going on right now.

There is a lot more choice for students in terms of housing, whether they want to rent or if their parents want to make an investment. Condos are on the market that parents will buy for students and investors who will rent to students.

There is clearly some month-end buying going on.

There is buying this morning on relief after the interest rate news but people are hesitant to go all out because the focus is shifting to what Taiwan's new president will say in his inauguration speech at the weekend.

There is better confidence in Asia. Corporate profitability is improving, unemployment is falling, wages are rising, interest rates are low, and there's a willingness to buy into assets. People are getting their money out of saving and into assets; otherwise they're competing with inflation.

There is a willingness on the part of investors to buy premium names in anticipation of a recovery, but I really think there isn't a lot of conviction on the part of buyers or sellers.

David Howell

There is no doubt that buyers have more leverage than they did a year ago.

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.

Charles Clark

The prices keep going up. You can't try and sell a piece of junk around here. People won't buy that. But people definitely are still looking to buy.

We were dealing with a very cautious, very careful consumer who was not really inspired to buy anything because there wasn't anything worth buying.

We need to make sure we're not just buying technology to buy technology.

When you can buy just the songs you like in a digital format, you don't have to buy the album.

Russ Feingold

When you buy toothpaste or detergent or gas, that is now used for the first time in your lifetime or my lifetime to support candidates in so-called 'independent ads.' Same thing for unions.

When you buy their product, you have to register with it. They make you register with it in order to use the product .... They should be responsible for when there's a security-related problem for e-mailing everybody that registered that product and let them know.

When you buy electricity from out of state ... you are essentially taking dollars out of your pocket and sending it to another state.

When you buy a vase cheap, look for the flaw; when a man offers favors, look for the motive

When you buy a load you tend to have the discipline to hold it longer.

When you buy a home, the last thing you want to do is come up with another $1,500 for a new furnace.

When you buy a company at an auction, and you are committing yourself to pay some $300 million to the state because it was a privatization deal, and you don't pay it, is it OK? Isn't it something that deserves court procedures?

When you buy a car you make sure it is not stolen or fraudulent. You should do the same for your diamonds.

John Savage

Let the guy do his thing. It's a unique event that should be encouraged even if you don't buy into the whole program. The guy's been doing it for 30 years around the world, and every place has survived.

Licensing our WiFi product to Symbian was an important milestone for us. It provides a real endorsement that our technology is the de-facto standard for the future. From a commercial perspective it positions us well to deal with the handset manufactures, as they will know that they are protected for the future if they buy from us today.

License plate recognition systems don't create congestion. For small states like Connecticut, where people can easily drive through without having to buy gas, drivers are essentially using the state's roads for free. Tolls are an effective way to collect money from them.

Ben Horowitz

Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end.

Paul Cook

Looks like a lot of the technology shares are on sale now. It's more of a buyer's market, and we think that this is an opportunity for us to step in and buy shares where people have some fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Latch doesn't always make it a simple click-in operation to install a restraint. Before buying one, parents should be sure to try fitting it in the vehicle they plan to use it in, because not every restraint is going to fit in every vehicle.

Legal or illegal, advertisers still think they have to buy toothpaste in the morning,

Brian Jones

Many of them have started selling their cattle crop to buy hay. If they're selling them to buy hay, they're not able to pay their other expenses.