Quotes about buy
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“Calvin: Dad where do babies come from?
Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions.
Calvin: I came from Sears?
Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Light, Baby

“Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

As quoted in Land in America : Its Value, Use, and Control (1981) by Peter M. Wolf, p. 6
Unsourced variant: Buy land, they aren't making any more of it.
As quoted in ...

“If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: If I wanted to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube
Source: Acheron

Game

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”

Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena

Vol. 2, Ch. 23, § 296a
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
Source: Counsels and Maxims (The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer)

Books, Time, Reading

“Will: I say we sell her to the Gypsies on Hampstead Heath. I hear they puchase spare women as well as hoses.
Charlotte: Will, stop it. That's ridivulous.
Will:You're right. They'd never buy her. Too scrawny.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Women

“Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.”

Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) British/ American author, artist, and a founder of the scouting movement

Money, Dogs

“Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”

Agatha Christie book The Man in the Brown Suit

Source: The Man in the Brown Suit

Money, Happiness

“I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

"September,", p. 413
1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
Context: This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Context: If the current polls are reliable... Nixon will be re-elected by a huge majority of Americans who feel he is not only more honest and more trustworthy than George McGovern, but also more likely to end the war in Vietnam. The polls also indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the Youth Vote. And that he might carry all fifty states... This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose... Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?

Money, World, Cars

“The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything. She wants all the information you can give her.”

David Ogilvy book Confessions of an Advertising Man

Source: Confessions of an Advertising Man, p. 96 (Ballantine Books)

Intelligence

“In the corner store we pulled fat bottles of water from the shelves. No one thinks it's weird that we have to buy clean water, and that's how I know we're going to hell.”

Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer

Hell, Thinking, Water

“When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Life, Books, Food

“If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Life, Learning, Time

“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

War, Drink

“Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Source: The Perfect Christmas

Love, Money

“I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Guy, Time, Reading

“What you buy is what you own, and sooner or later what you own will come back to you.”

Stephen King book It

Pet Sematary (1983)
Source: It

“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

Source: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

People, Books

“Men exist because a vibrator can't fix a flat tire. On second thought, I should just buy a AAA card…”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Get A Clue

Men

“Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Source: The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966

Death, Money, Soul, Forgiveness

“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Love, School

“Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace”

Sophie Kinsella (1969) British writer

Books, Education

“Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Cheating

“People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.”

Kathy Lette (1958) Australian author

Money, Happiness, People, Funny

“She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.”

David Lubar (1954) Children's writer and game programmer

Books, Moms

“Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower?

Of course not. Don't be silly.

Even if I didn't use it in the house?”

Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes

Source: Calvin and Hobbes

Housing

“You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

“Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Law

“Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Love, Sense

“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.”

Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

Books, Home, Reading

“Quick, how do you pick up a cat?"
"Buy her a drink.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Cats, Drink

“Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.”

William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008) American conservative author and commentator

Life

“I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.”

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (1968) Canadian writer

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Fate

“People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.”

Connie Willis book To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Children, People, Tree

“Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both.”

Janet Evanovich Plum Lovin'

Source: Plum Lovin'

Men, Money, Shoe, Perfection

“You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.”

John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

Sun

“Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.”

Gene Hill (1928–1997) American author

Happiness

“He closed his eyes. “I’m so tired, Tess,” he said. “I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.”
“That is not the way to get them, Will,” she said softly. “You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Pain, Dreams, Way

“I can buy your contract.” “No, you can’t. Any sale of our mortgage requires my consent, and I won’t consent to it.” He grinned. “You don’t want to work under me?” “I’m not even going to dignify that with an answer.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

“I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Moms, Birthday, Thinking

“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

Books

“We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Books, Thinking, Evil, Parting

“I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included. So I had to buy them again.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

I Have A Pony (1985)
Context: I recently went to the hardware store and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

“Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

Time

“Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian)
Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Love

“What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?”

Christina Rossetti book Goblin Market and Other Poems

Source: Goblin Market and Other Poems

Men

“A six-inch blade. I smiled. Did he buy it? It was actually just shy of four—but very nicely weighted—and as Aunt Bernice noted, a little exaggeration was always expected when describing weapons, victories, and body parts.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

Smile, Victory, Parting

“I went to a general store, but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Art

“Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

Fish

“The saddest day of your life isn't when you decide to sell out. The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out and nobody wants to buy.”

Norman Spinrad (1940) American science fiction writer and critic

Life

“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Men

“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”

Thomas Hardy book Jude the Obscure

Source: Jude the Obscure

Life, People, Pleasure, Nature

“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Money, Happiness

“Why don't you just buy me a minivan, zip me into mom jeans, and shoot me in the face" - Melanthe the potential Queen of Persuasions:”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Demon from the Dark

Moms

“I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

School

“I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better, and unravel them. There are countries of women in this scarf/shawl/blanket. Soon it will be big enough to keep me warm.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Women, Country

“If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Wild Roses

Life, People, Truth

“Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

As quoted in The Quotable Will Rogers (2006) by Joseph H. Carter
As quoted in ...

Men, World, Country

“The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

The Taming of the Screw (1983)
Source: The Taming of the Screw: How to Sidestep Several Million Homeowner's Problems

Box

“You can’t buy time, Nick. Ever. It’s the only thing in life you can’t get most of, and it’s the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it’s gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Life, Soul, Tear, Time

“I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours”

Jack Kerouac book Tristessa

Source: Tristessa

Life, People, Sadness, Memory

“Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

“If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?”

Garrison Keillor book Lake Wobegon Days

Source: Lake Wobegon Days

Box

“We buy balloons, we let them go.”

Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

“I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.”

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

Source: Summer Knight

Jealousy, Cars, Feeling, Rage

“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

People, Feeling, Strong

“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Books, Time, Reading

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”

Charlaine Harris (1951) American writer

Books

“Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.”

David Lee Roth (1954) Rock vocalist; lead singer with Van Halen

Money, Happiness

“You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”

Daniel Kahneman (1934) Israeli-American psychologist

Source: Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology

Money, Happiness

“Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.”

Candace Bushnell book One Fifth Avenue

Source: One Fifth Avenue

Money, Art

“I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Tribute

Money, Happiness

“There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Money, Books, World

“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”

Dave Ramsey (1960) American financial advisor

Source: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

Money, People

“Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Last Breath

Girl, Birthday

“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator

Love, Money

“First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Source: Omens

Help

“Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny –
Did you ever try buying them without money.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

Life, Money

“The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.”

Hugh Laurie book The Gun Seller

Source: The Gun Seller

Money

“Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.”

Jean-Dominique Bauby book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Freedom, Strong

“Nonsense. I think that the problem isn't with them downloading the song, the problem is when they buy the record and when they burn a million discs off their computer for all their friends. That's the reason why every single band, no matter who you are, your sales are chopped by fifty to sixty percent after your first week out. It's a huge problem, but instead of giving people more reasons to buy the product, they don't worry about that. I think you have to enhance the value of the product. Like when KISS was putting out records, their 'Alive' record sold so well because it made you feel like you were part of the concert experience. There was also an actual program in the thing, all these pictures, the KISS Army stuff… There's so much stuff that added to the value of that package. There wasn't a KISS fan out there who didn't want the whole thing, because everything that came along with the music was so worthwhile to them. It's not rocket-science, this stuff.”

David Draiman (1973) American singer and songwriter

Disturbed's David Draiman Offers 'Solution' To Illegal Music Downloading http://www.webcitation.org/64oENbO3B, Blabbermouth.net, 11 July 2003)

People, Music, Feeling, Kiss

“I'd had a long talk with Bob Silverberg, who was very influential on my early career. He'd, out of the kindness of his heart, at a convention told me that he thought I'd made several mistakes in the way I was disposing of my stories. And I said, "I don't understand what you mean, but I'll be glad to buy you a few drinks, if you'll tell me about it". So we adjourned to the bar and sat there a couple of hours. He was drinking Bloody Marys back then; I was drinking Black Russians. And he told me all sorts of things which carried me over the next several years; it was a lot of information for a couple of drinks. He told me that the first thing I should do if I wanted to write full-time was to get a really good agent. He said that after a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end.
Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.”

Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer

Phlogiston interview (1995)

Money, Way, Feeling, Drink

“The marriage of David Brooks and the Democratic Leadership Council makes perfect sense. It's repugnant and the kind of thing one should shield young children from knowing about, but it makes perfect sense. Both prefer a policy of being "cautious soldiers," "incrementalists" who shun upheavals and vote the status quo, although they subscribe to this policy for different reasons. Brooks worships the status quo because he has no penis and wants to spend the rest of his life buying periwinkle bath towels without troubling interruptions of conscience. The DLC, a nonprofit created in the mid-1980s to help big business have a say in the Democratic Party platform, supports the status quo because they are paid agents of the commercial interests that define it. Moreover, Brooks and the DLC have this in common: While they both frown on the open flag-waving and ostentatious religiosity of the talk-radio right-wing as being gauche and in bad form, they're only truly offended by people of their own background who happen to be idealistic. Hence the recurring backlash by both against the various angry electoral challenges to the establishment of the Democratic Party.”

Matt Taibbi (1970) author and journalist

"David Brooks and the DLC: Best Friends Forever?", AlterNet (3 August 2006) http://web.archive.org/web/20060808224928/http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/39862/

Life, Marriage, Children, People

“When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.”

Edwin Lefèvre book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXI, p. 249

“The most successful people in the workplace are those who normally really like and ‘buy-into’ their employer’s mission and vision. In other words such people like what the company wishes to achieve and where it is heading. It is akin to being on a ship and liking what the ship is doing and liking where the ship is heading. Can you imagine being on a ship and not wishing to go where it is heading?”

Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach

Page 62 <br class="br">Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Managing Teams in a Week (2013) https://books.google.ae/books?idqZjO9_ov74EC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIIDAB#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (2014) https://books.google.ae/books?id4S7vAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIJjAC#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse

People, Imagination, Success