#buy

Buying is a profound pleasure. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#pleasure #profound

You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#buy #certainly #checked #clean #coast

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. 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

#because #books #buy #could #dissatisfied

The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#bills #buy #buying #easing #example

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#connect #deeper #deeper level #just #level

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#back #because #buy #counter #developed

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. ↗

— Steven Wright

#buy #general #i #me #specific

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds. ↗

— Ville Valo

#buy #cds #collecting #i #lot

Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it. ↗

— Douglas B. Reeves

#belief #buy-in #change #implementation #change

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it. ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#buying #fans #good #hard #how