Purchase Quotes

252 quotes by 212 authors

Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this… — Steve Vai
I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in… — Stevie Wonder
It's easy to make fun of AOL's pending purchase of HuffPo. Just like AOL's purchase of TimeWarner, here we have a new media company -… — Douglas Rushkoff
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing… — Nick Hornby
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught,… — Alexander Pope
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. — Alexander Pope
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. — George Bernard Shaw
The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting. — Benjamin Franklin
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding… — Alberto Manguel
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets… — Alain de Botton
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. — Gregory Maguire
Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them.… — Terry Pratchett
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. — David Foster Wallace
And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth. — Walt Whitman
Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just… — Alain de Botton
There's nothing wild about me. I'm a solid middle-aged man." "Except that once a month you turn into a wolf and go tearing around slaughtering… — Cassandra Clare
We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an… — Daniel Dennett
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants. — Ayn Rand
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. — R. Scott Bakker
Why donâ€™t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.â€ â€œI have one,â€ she said, â€œbut I donâ€™t think itâ€™s very good. Half… — Julia Quinn

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