Quotes of: Acquired Keyword

I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.

Sarah Gadon

The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally.

Andrew Gould

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

James J. Corbett

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

Robert Toombs

I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to d...

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

Eli Broad

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Aesop's Fables

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

The Architecture of Happiness

... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.

The American Heiress

There’s nothing easier to ‘acquire’ than a girl with a broken heart.

Insatiable

Those who by valorous ways become princes...acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.

The Prince

The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.

Neil MacGregor

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

Tori Amos

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

Marc Maron

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

Shawn Amos

Acquiring knowledge doesn't bring power into your life, until you apply what you have learned.

Shannon L. Alder

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Frank Chodorov

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

Greg LeMond

The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes.

Vladimir Bukovsky

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

Tina Weymouth

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

Hans-Georg Gadamer