Buying Quotes - Page 28

• I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

  Bo Bice

  Song, Guy, Albums

  "'American Idol' vets Bo Brice, Constantine Maroulis can't stop rocking'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. May 24, 2007.

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• I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner. Yeah, I'm romantic.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Doors, Dinner, Yeah

  "A Guided Tour of Evan Rachel Wood: A Woman We Love" by Julian Sanction, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2011.

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• I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.

  Billie Piper

  Flower, Home, Too Much

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was just taking out my trash and I had, like, 300 cans of Diet Coke. It was just like, 'How did that happen?' I don't even remember buying them. I also like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. My addictions are pretty much the only things I consume.

  Robert Pattinson

  Addiction, Cinnamon, Coke

  "Exclusive Twilight Interview: Rob, Kellan, and Jackson". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2009.

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• Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student

  Patricia Heaton

  Home, Kids, College

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• We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested.

  Nina Garcia

  Clothes, Shoes, Firsts

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• You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Cities, House, Three

  "Vanessa Paradis annoyed by rumours about a split with Johnny Depp" by Ashleigh Rainbird, www.mirror.co.uk. January 25, 2012.

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• I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Towns

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• What I don't understand about mobile homes is that you have a mobile place to live, you park it, and you never move it again. That's like buying a Sony Walkman, and nailing it to your hi-fi.

  Nick Hancock

  Moving, Home, Parks

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• Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.

  Phoebe Cates

  People, Picks

  "Perfect Gifts, According to Phoebe Cates". abcnews.go.com. June 01, 2006.

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• Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.

  Holly Valance

  Reading, Writing, People

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• I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.

  Daymond John

  Opportunity, Giving, People

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• With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.

  Joy Bryant

  Grandmother, Green, Realizing

  "Waste Not, Want Not". www.elle.com. June 21, 2011.

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• The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons who drive their SUVs down to Sainsbury's and buy kiwi fruit, flown in from New Zealand for Christ sakes. They're the equivalent of environmental nuclear bombs!

  Michael O'Leary

  Class, Environmental, Nuclear

  "Michael O'Leary's 33 daftest quotes" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2013.

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• Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

  Milton Friedman

  Technique, Politics, Voters

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (1985). “Tyranny of the status quo”

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• Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.

  John H. Vandenberg

  Fall, Pits, Financial

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• There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Credit, Financial, Worthwhile

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• Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Serious, Journalism

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple.

  Kyle Bass

  Simple, Political, Gold

  BBC HARDTalk Interview, November 15, 2011.

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• ...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.

  John D. Voelker

  Rivers, Lakes, Average

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• He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts.

  Henry Waxman

  Lying, Past, Iraq

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• Stop paying or buying into the ideas that don't resonate with the reality you prefer. Stop giving them credence. Appreciate, Appreciate your chosen vibration and allow the vibrations that are not aligned with you to de-preciate.

  Darryl Anka

  Positive, Reality, Law Of Attraction

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• We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Reality, Men, Equal Pay

  "Gender Equality Is a Myth!" By Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, shriverreport.org. January 12, 2014.

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• Sometimes if somebody you feel you need... the whole universe tells you that you have to have her, you start watching her favorite TV shows all night, you start buying her the things she needs, you start drinking her drinks, you start smoking her bad cigarettes, you start picking up her nuances in her voice, you sleep in safe sometimes the most dangerous thing... this is called Mojo Pin.

  Jeff Buckley

  Drinking, Sleep, Night

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• It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

  Anuj

  Creating, Easy, Difficult

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