Quotes about buy
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Nat King Cole photo

“I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.”

Nat King Cole (1919–1965) American singer and jazz pianist

As quoted in Nat King Cole (1990) by James Haskings

Mr. T photo
John R. Commons photo
Kenneth Arrow photo
Steve Jobs photo

“The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

As quoted in "Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview" in Rolling Stone (3 December 2003)
2000s

Bill Gates photo

“What we're saying to people is that every idea about ease-of-use, we can develop in software, for the PC, without asking them to buy new hardware, without asking them to throw away their old applications.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

Bill Gates Charlie Rose Interview http://youtube.com/watch?v=M1EsIusQJQM on Charlie Rose (25 November 1996)
1990s

"Weird Al" Yankovic photo

“I wrote "Eat It" because I wanted to buy a banana boat for Christmas. It worked.”

"Weird Al" Yankovic (1959) American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist

I Love the 80's 3D, VH1, 1985.

Silvia Colloca photo

“You can only cook Italian if you are Italian or you think like an Italian and then you don't need the recipe. To think like an Italian in the kitchen means to be frugal. It's a very simple concept. Buy in season, keep it simple and don't buy anything you are going to leave wilting in the fridge.”

Silvia Colloca (1977) Singer, actress, author and TV cooking personality

Silvia Colloca's secret ingredient for the sweet life http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/interviews/silvia-collocas-secret-ingredient-for-the-sweet-life-20150725-gikllg.html (July 26, 2015)

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“Trying to defeat an ideology by killing individuals is like trying to save a marriage with a blowjob. It might buy you some time, but in the end it'll just suck.”

Ze Frank (1972) American online performance artist

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/05/052406.html
"The Show" (www.zefrank.com/theshow/)

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Fritz Leiber photo
Simon Phipps photo
Clay Shirky photo
Heather Brooke photo
Jeremy Clarkson photo
Kent Hovind photo
Mitt Romney photo
Jon Stewart photo

“Do you guys have to sell everything? I'd like to buy the Earth's core.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

Amazon.com interview http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=542410, 2004

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The Edge photo
Hillary Clinton photo
Charlie Brooker photo
Miley Cyrus photo

“Shoes. I like shoes a lot. My favorite are these Tory Burch boots that I have on. But my favorite shoes to buy are Converse shoes. I have probably every color of Converse shoes known to man.”

Miley Cyrus (1992) American actor and singer-songwriter

Inquirer.net http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20081120-173424/Miley-Cyrus-lends-voice-to-animated-film (November 20, 2008)

Joe Strummer photo

“All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.”

Joe Strummer (1952–2002) British musician, singer, actor and songwriter

Joe Strummer / Mick Jones, "White Riot", The Clash (1977).
Lyrics

Jeremy Clarkson photo
William S. Burroughs photo

“People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.”

Theodore Levitt (1925–2006) American economist and professor at Harvard Business School

Theodore Levitt, cited in: Clayton Christensen (2016), The Clayton M. Christensen Reader. p. 46

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John Sloan photo
Neal Stephenson photo
Philippe Kahn photo
Elfriede Jelinek photo
John C. Dvorak photo

“Nobody can deny that Apple is fashionable, and most iPhone users buy the newest so they can be fashionable. To do this right, Apple needs a new phone every quarter.”

John C. Dvorak (1952) US journalist and radio broadcaster

Giddyup, Apple! http://pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406546,00.asp in PC Magazine (29 June 2012)
2010s

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Zlatan Ibrahimović photo

“I went left, he went left. I went right, he went right. I went left again, he went to buy a hot dog.”

Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981) Swedish association football player

on being marked by Liverpool defender Stephane Henchoz (Kuper, 2011).
Attributed

Donald J. Trump photo

“I sort of hope [a housing crash] happens because then people like me would go in and buy.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

How to Build a Fortune (2006), Trump University audiobook, quoted in * 2016-05-19 Jeremy Diamond Donald Trump in 2006: I 'sort of hope' real estate market tanks CNN https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/politics/donald-trump-2006-hopes-real-estate-market-crashes/index.html
2000s

Brian Cowen photo

“I believe it is the best method to get the buy-in for the road we have to travel. I believe it is a problem-solving process about how we collectively come forward with a strategy to deal with the issue.”

Brian Cowen (1960) Irish politician

''A quoted comment from the Taoiseach, in a news report about his proposals for economic recovery'', The Irish Times, 9 January 2009, 2010-06-12 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0109/1231406001456.html,
2009

Charlotte Ross photo
Nouriel Roubini photo
Will Arnett photo

“(On his Emmy nomination) I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.”

Will Arnett (1970) Canadian actor

"Stars React to Emmy Nominations," Access Hollywood (2006) http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah814.shtml
2006

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Philippe Starck photo

“Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple.”

Kyle Bass (1969) businessperson

BBC HARDTalk interview, 15 November 2011.

“At least I won't have to buy.”

Anita Harding (1952–1995) neurologist

Attributed to Harding in: : Response after learning of her terminal condition,

“[I]f you want to live like a Norwegian, buy a plane ticket.”

Jim Geraghty (1975) American journalist

Ten Reasons We Can't, and Shouldn't, Be Nordic (2018)

Alfie Kohn photo

“Rewards and punishments are not opposites at all; they are two sides of the same coin. And it is a coin that does not buy very much.”

Alfie Kohn (1957) American author and lecturer

Source: Punished by Rewards, Chapter 4

John Updike photo
Orson Scott Card photo
Henry Cuyler Bunner photo
Brian Clevinger photo
Mary Meeker photo
Holly Madison photo
Steve Jobs photo

“You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

"Jobs: Iconoclast and salesman" by Brian Williams, at MSNBC http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12974884/ (25 May 2006)
2000s

Cory Doctorow photo

“A tablet without software is just an inconveniently fragile and poorly reflective mirror, so the thing I want to be sure of when I buy a device is that I don't have to implicitly trust one corporation's judgment about what software I should and shouldn't be using.”

Cory Doctorow (1971) Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author

"Why Samsung's Galaxy Tab is 'meh'" in The Guardian (25 July 2011) http://theguardian.com/technology/2011/jul/25/why-samsung-galaxy-tab-is-meh

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Neal Stephenson photo
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Erik Naggum photo

“Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic?"”

Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer

read the fine manual, please http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emacs/msg/821a0f04bab91864 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

St. Vincent (musician) photo
Letitia Elizabeth Landon photo

“Sweet Pauline, could I buy thee
With gold or its worth,
I would not deny thee
The wealth of the earth.
They talk of the pleasure
That riches bestow —
Without thee, my treasure,
What joy could I know?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

The London Literary Gazette (10th January 1835) Versions from the German (Second Series.) 'Pauline's Price'— Goethe.
Translations, From the German

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Mark Mwandosya photo

“What is the cost of the pride of the nation? The number does not mean anything as long as we buy the plane, maintain it and look after the welfare of our people.”

Mark Mwandosya (1949) Tanzanian politician

Defending the purchase of the presidential jet when he was the Minister of Transport. 2004-10-06 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3719712.stm

Gabriele Münter photo

“We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Olivia Munn photo
David Lloyd George photo
Muammar Gaddafi photo
Patrick Buchanan photo
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay photo
Clarence Thomas photo
Ursula K. Le Guin photo
Aron Ra photo

“I was a young man in the ’80s, and I was into medieval weapons, Harleys and Heavy Metal. I even played D&D back when that was supposed to induct players into real-life witchcraft. So I remember all the ridiculous superstition surrounding the secret meanings of ear piercing, the pseudo-paganism of Procter & Gamble, the seemingly Satanic messages in back-masking, and the allegedly suicidal insinuations of some metal albums. I attribute a lot of that to the fact that atheism didn’t have any appreciable presence back then. In those days, if you didn’t buy into Christian dogma and were openly critical of it, then you were a witch. You were either a neo-pagan or (more likely) you were Satanic. The latter would be applied regardless how you might prefer to identify. To my cultural experience, there was no such thing as a skeptic as that is known today. Back then, skeptics were considered cynics who refused to open their minds. It must have been a great time for paranoid Christian conservatives. They actually like Satanists a lot more than atheists. Because Satanists not only play the Christian game; they give Christians the moral high ground. Whereas atheists piss everybody off by pointing out that it is a game and that every believer in any religion is just pretending.”

Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast

Patheos, Satanic Panic and Exorcism in Schools? http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2016/09/21/satanic-panic-and-exorcism-in-schools/ (September 21, 2016)

Edward Bellamy photo

“Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.”

Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) American author and socialist

Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/lkbak10.txt (1888), Ch. 9.

Murray Leinster photo

“It isn’t illegal to buy an artist’s work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!”

Murray Leinster (1896–1975) Novelist, short story writer

Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 21).

Andrew Tobias photo

“The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.”

Andrew Tobias (1947) American journalist

Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 15, How God Would Restructure the Insurance Industry, p. 272.

David Lange photo
Lee Kuan Yew photo
Han Han photo
Adam Gopnik photo
Julio Cortázar photo

“"Hair loss and retrieval" (Translation of "Pérdida y recuperación del pelo")


To combat pragmatism and the horrible tendency to achieve useful purposes, my elder cousin proposes the procedure of pulling out a nice hair from the head, knotting it in the middle and droping it gently down the hole in the sink. If the hair gets caught in the grid that usually fills in these holes, it will just take to open the tap a little to lose sight of it.


Without wasting an instant, must start the hair recovery task. The first operation is reduced to dismantling the siphon from the sink to see if the hair has become hooked in any of the rugosities of the drain. If it is not found, it is necessary to expose the section of pipe that goes from the siphon to the main drainage pipe. It is certain that in this part will appear many hairs and we will have to count on the help of the rest of the family to examine them one by one in search of the knot. If it does not appear, the interesting problem of breaking the pipe down to the ground floor will arise, but this means a greater effort, because for eight or ten years we will have to work in a ministry or trading house to collect enough money to buy the four departments located under the one of my elder cousin, all that with the extraordinary disadvantage of what while working during those eight or ten years, the distressing feeling that the hair is no longer in the pipes anymore can not be avoided and that only by a remote chance remains hooked on some rusty spout of the drain.


The day will come when we can break the pipes of all the departments, and for months to come we will live surrounded by basins and other containers full of wet hairs, as well as of assistants and beggars whom we will generously pay to search, assort, and bring us the possible hairs in order to achieve the desired certainty. If the hair does not appear, we will enter in a much more vague and complicated stage, because the next section takes us to the city's main sewers. After buying a special outfit, we will learn to slip through the sewers at late night hours, armed with a powerful flashlight and an oxygen mask, and explore the smaller and larger galleries, assisted if possible by individuals of the underworld, with whom we will have established a relationship and to whom we will have to give much of the money that we earn in a ministry or a trading house.


Very often we will have the impression of having reached the end of the task, because we will find (or they will bring us) similar hairs of the one we seek; but since it is not known of any case where a hair has a knot in the middle without human hand intervention, we will almost always end up with the knot in question being a mere thickening of the caliber of the hair (although we do not know of any similar case) or a deposit of some silicate or any oxide produced by a long stay against a wet surface. It is probable that we will advance in this way through various sections of major and minor pipes, until we reach that place where no one will decide to penetrate: the main drain heading in the direction of the river, the torrential meeting of detritus in which no money, no boat, no bribe will allow us to continue the search.


But before that, and perhaps much earlier, for example a few centimeters from the mouth of the sink, at the height of the apartment on the second floor, or in the first underground pipe, we may happen to find the hair. It is enough to think of the joy that this would cause us, in the astonished calculation of the efforts saved by pure good luck, to choose, to demand practically a similar task, that every conscious teacher should advise to its students from the earliest childhood, instead of drying their souls with the rule of cross-multiplication or the sorrows of Cancha Rayada.”

Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) Argentinian writer

Historias de Cronopios y de Famas (1962)

Lane Kirkland photo
Peter D. Schiff photo
David Pogue photo
Steve Lyons photo
Barry Boehm photo
Linda McQuaig photo
Sam Donaldson photo

“Well, if there's no 'war' that begins, but you say 'war begins', no one's going to buy your newspaper the next day because they'll be on to the fact that you don't know what you're talking about.”

Sam Donaldson (1934) American journalist

As quoted in "Respek" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=m1_FAsefZ6o (18 July 2004), Da Ali G Show.
2000s

Marianne von Werefkin photo
David Berg photo
Conor McGregor photo

“Why would I want to train at that bum gym? I train with my own people, I have since day one. That man needs to get his facts straight before I roll in there and buy that gym.”

Conor McGregor (1988) Irish mixed martial artist and boxer

"UFC 197 press conference" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75xAdA3uVeY (January 2016), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
2010s, 2016

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