I could be anything but for the faults that I've acquired…

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it…

— Reed Hastings

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

— Eli Broad

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The…

— Margaret Geller

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

— Robert Toombs

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

— John Madden

In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on.…

— Seamus Heaney

I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa,…

— Alice Krige

When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

“I have acquired you, and now I will determine your value to me.”

— Robert Peate

The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish…

— Vladimir Bukovsky

“it seemed to her that she had acquired not virtues but a form of dementia”

— Doris Lessing

Confidence is acquired through failure

— Corey P Smith

Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had…

— Joe Perry

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

— Michael Bennet

We are pleased to have acquired remake rights of 'Comali' for all languages in the world.

— Boney Kapoor