If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.
If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
The big money is not in the buying and selling. . . but in the waiting.
Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.
Buying art is not understanding art.
I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.
We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.
Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up in the idea around our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.
If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
I feel like a lot has changed - ebooks are a much more valid format and bigger presses are taking less chances. As a bookseller, there are less real bookstores and more people buying on-line. As a writer, I think there are fewer paths to break through on a big press, but on the other hand there are more small presses doing awesome work now. Overall, artistically, I think it's a pretty exciting time in the literary world.
When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.
Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.
I don't think humans are meant to be looked at when we're buying pants.
What President Trump is doing is, he wants to get rid of that Obamacare penalty almost immediately, because that is something that is really strangling a lot of Americans to have to pay a penalty for not buying.
If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.