Buying Quotes

Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - all this debt issued by the United States people assume the Chinese are buying, no they don't want any more American debt. Ron Paul has a point there.

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

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.

Many people think that buying a fake product is harmless, but counterfeiting is estimated to result in annual losses of over $20 billion dollars to American companies.

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

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.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

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.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!