Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rosamunde Pilcher

In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people buy the books.

Serge Schmemann

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

Sherrod Brown

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

But I wouldn't be in a rush to buy these stocks right now. Maybe buy a little bit. Keep your powder dry, and wait a couple of months, see what happens. I'm very worried about May. What is going to happen in the summer doldrums? Perhaps the market will correct again. You've got to be very careful here. So remember, buy stocks with earnings -- that's my opinion.

Amy Sedaris

Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next time I do your show.

Amy Chua

There's a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn't want to raise kids like that.

Alice Waters

You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables, you have to be careful where they come from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers' market, it's already been investigated.

Alice Waters

I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you're supporting the future of this country.

Alex Berenson

Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before the purchase is completed.

Alex Berenson

The lower spreads mean lower costs for investors, because Nasdaq investors generally do not trade directly with one another. Instead, they usually buy and sell from market-makers, brokerage firms that flip shares between buyers and sellers and keep the spread for themselves.

Pedro Pascal

I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

Peter Beard

I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

Peter Mayle

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.

Mayer Hawthorne

I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a lot of the other toys kids got. That's what I wanted. I've been collecting records and DJing my whole life, and I thank my parents for that. They had a big record collection and really imparted the magic of it on me.

Charles Spurgeon

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

The government would rather buy time and not put itself in a position to move forward on a criminal case but tie up the funds and continue to sift through the evidence.

We're hoping we can get somebody to buy the house who is willing to carry on the tradition. We're willing to make a Christmas package part of the sale.

We see very strong interest to buy Japanese equities on increased confidence that this recovery is very different that one we saw in the 90s. It's being driven by domestic demand.

Reggie Bush

We've been looking for a house for two to three months. I was looking for a house for my parents, something to take care of them. That's the fun thing about this process. You get to buy your parents nice things. It just happened that we found one.

Anton Corbijn

When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation.

Alison Brie

If you're a guy, you should get girls flowers all the time. They never get old and you can never get them enough. I'm never disappointed when I get flowers. I always thought guys who don't buy women flowers are such fools. All it takes is one. A little goes a long way with flowers.

The government shouldn't step in at the first stage and create land banks. Industry should buy the land as much as they can, and if they get stuck, then the government should step in.

We had a buy on the rumor, sell on the news sort of thing.

We had a booster club meeting earlier this week, ... and a lady came up and wanted to buy three more to send to family members.

We are seeing U.S. investors consistently selling the Canadian dollar to buy the U.S. dollar as there is still uncertainty in the election.

This will put it into a tightly regulated tax and control market for people who want to buy it. It's taking it out of the schoolyards and putting it underneath the watchful eye of state government.

Try to buy those kinds of names when they're out of favor and hold on to them for long periods of time,

Ha-Joon Chang

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.

Ivan Glasenberg

When the opportunities come, we may not want to buy another nickel asset, but if something comes cheap enough, we're all about return on equity.

Yields are unlikely to keep going up in a straight line. Investors may buy should yields rise to 1.50 percent.

The program is designed to cover you damages or buy your house at your pre-storm equity. It's capped at $150,000... net of other insurance proceeds or other FEMA aid.

The problem is that terrific news on inflation is not what we need right now, ... We need terrific news on the demand side of the economy. The economy hasn't stabilized yet so we don't have any great need to buy stocks.

The problem is that consumers are not only online buyers. They buy in multiple channels. We go to stores; we go to the Web site.