Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?. . . It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while.
For me getting paid for art is a class issue. I don't have the luxury not to care. It's great if your parents buy you a house and you can sell your 400-page book for $2. But for marginalized people it's not as cool to martyr yourself.
Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.
To trust so much in our devices and sync everyone's device up - we tell people where we are, what we buy and where we shop, who we talk to - and that goes somewhere. The ghost of information technology out there, and one of the points. . . of the manga and anime was trusting in technology.
I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.
There's nothing that I buy that I don't wear.
Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.
When I need a break from the boys, I go with my girlfriend to buy pretty little dresses for her daughter.
[Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won't work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.
If I didn’t already own this, how much would I spend to buy it?
By a network I don't necessarily mean your customers or clients. I mean a network of people who know you, like you, and trust you. They might never buy a thing from you, but they've always got you in the backs of their minds. They're people who are personally invested in seeing you succeed. . . They're your army of personal walking ambassadors.
I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT CRITICS, LIKE I SAID THEY DONT BUY TICKETS.
Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.
It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite. . . fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.
Usability rules the web. Simply stated, if the customer can't find a product, then he or she will not buy it.
Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.
You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.
You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.
If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.
I'm not putting up with this," she continued. "You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done?" "Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.