Buying Quotes - Page 17

• Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". "The Atlantic" Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

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• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  Ted Turner

  Buying Things, Cnn, Humanity

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• VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Decision, Filters

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• Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

  Vera Wang

  People, Design, Cost

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• I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Mean, Doctors, Years

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• A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

  Len Wein

  Writing, Lenses, Matter

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Buying Things, Chinese, Ifs

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• I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Clothes, People, Littles

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

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers.

  Julian Baggini

  Mean, Impact, Practice

  "Why business needs to concentrate on value - not just profit". www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

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• ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Thinking, Paraphrase

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• ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end... Man, it occurs to me, is a joyful, buying-and-selling piece of work. I have been wrong, dead wrong, when I've decried consumerism. Consumerism is what we are. It is, in a sense, a holy impulse. A human being is someone who joyfully goes in pursuit of things, brings them home, then immediately starts planning how to get more.

  George Saunders

  Home, Men, Pieces

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• But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me 'Hon.

  Sarah Vowell

  Mother, Heart, Home

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• …. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

  Albert Camus

  Sunday, Waiting Rooms, Office

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.26, Vintage

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• Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Dark, Men

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.66

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• This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to support - the businessman who hated his business - the worker who hated his work - the intellectual who hated everybody - all were united as brothers in the luxury of common anger that cured boredom and took them out of themselves, and they knew well enough what a blessing it was to be taken out of themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Taken, Blessing

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• Peace might sell, but who's buying?

  Joan Baez

  Might, Sells

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• 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

  Nice, People, Needs

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the cat you play with and that curls up in your lap, purring, to be stroked - you can be fond of them, you can even need them to a certain extent, and nonetheless the whole thing - buying pet food, cleaning up the cat box, and trips to the vet - is really too much. Your life is elsewhere.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Dog, Cat, Play

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.30, Vintage

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• Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I didn't say I loved her. I guess I did. But asking someone to say they love you--and she always asked--is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it.

  Avi

  Love You, Kissing, Aunt

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• 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

  Shopping, Bored, Fields

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• Cabel smiles and hangs up. "Guess what." What," Janie says. We can go out on our first date." Woo hoo!" And guess what else- You're buying." Me? Why?" Because you lost the bet." Janie thinks for a moment. Punches Cabel in the arm. "You did not fail five quizzes or tests!" I did. I have proof.

  Lisa McMann

  Thinking, Arms, Tests

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

  John Steinbeck

  Years, Sorrow, Toil

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.68, Hamilton Books

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• I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.

  Mary Karr

  Order, Years, Clothes

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• I dreamed I was buying new shoes last night," said Ron. "What d'ya think that's gonna mean?" "Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Night, Thinking

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