Quotes of: Bought Keyword

I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.

Andre Benjamin

When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.

Ahmet Ertegun

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

Andy Hertzfeld

Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit.

Shelley Duvall

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

Takeshi Kitano

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

Alice Hoffman

The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

David Talbot

We have too quickly bought into the lie that we’ll be happier with more—and as a result, too often miss the joy that comes from owning less.

Clutterfree with Kids

War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.

Dominion

Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve?

Dare You To

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

I totally bought you as a girl," says Marisol. "I'll double check with Frances later, but by the sounds of things, you seem to have no balls.

How to Build a House

90 percent of all Gillette shavers are bought by women for the men in their lives

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire

Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.

Bought: For His Convenience or Pleasure?

The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.

Paul Weller

My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

Eli Broad

When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.

Sissy Spacek

If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.

Leaper: The Misadventures of a Not-Necessarily-Super Hero

The sundress she wanted was too expensive for me, so I bought her a moondress. It’s not as shiny, but it still makes me howl.

Sleepwalking is restercise

I bought it and threw it away. Why? Because I paid for it. The only thing better would be if taxpayers purchased it. I should be a politician.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Respect is a thing earned, not bought, and a man who lets it be known that he seeks respect will probably never see it bestowed.

That Which Should Not Be