#buying

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#book-collecting #poetry #temptation

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#box #box office #buying #each #everything

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product. ↗

— Carl Karcher

#buying #community #ones #owe #people

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#anyway #appearances #around #book #books

If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I'll buy one. I'll take that one home. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#buy #buying #coke #control #had

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#bought #buying #controlled #first #first things

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial. ↗

— Frank Dane

#commercial #especially #lawyer #money #talking

You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#city #eat #house #i #know

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#buying #car #change #continue #fueled

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#buying #commodities #commodity #company #futures