Metropolitan essentially bought real estate from itself, creating fictitious profits. Helane Morrison More Helane Morrison Quotes 3
I come from a country in which human beings are still being bought and sold into slavery. Simon Deng More Simon Deng Quotes 1
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. Gore Vidal American Novelist More Gore Vidal Quotes 1
I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money. Fred Ward American Actor More Fred Ward Quotes 0
We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building. Dick York American Actor More Dick York Quotes 0
When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster. Chuck Zito American Celebrity More Chuck Zito Quotes 0
I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets. Ernst Zundel German Activist More Ernst Zundel Quotes 0
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. John Perry Barlow American Writer More John Perry Barlow Quotes 0
The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing. Russell Banks American Author More Russell Banks Quotes 0
My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. Tracy Chapman American Musician More Tracy Chapman Quotes 0
My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs. Joan Armatrading St. Kittsian Musician More Joan Armatrading Quotes 0
But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever. Will Arnett Canadian Actor More Will Arnett Quotes 0
We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again. Tom Araya American Musician More Tom Araya Quotes 0
I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But that's not what drives me. I prefer to have people over - which I do a lot, because I bought a house that's way too big for me, and four of my friends live there. Kristen Bell American Actress More Kristen Bell Quotes 0
I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But that's not what drives me. I prefer to have people over - which I do a lot, because I bought a house that's way too big for me, and four of my friends live there. Kristen Bell American Actress More Kristen Bell Quotes 0
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. Kate Chopin American Author More Kate Chopin Quotes 0
I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it. Connie Chung American Journalist More Connie Chung Quotes 0
One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh. Michael Aspel British Journalist More Michael Aspel Quotes 0
We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment. Buffalo Bill American Celebrity More Buffalo Bill Quotes 0
I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house! George Clooney Actor More George Clooney Quotes 0
Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market. Arthur Hugh Clough English Poet More Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes 0
Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira. William Bligh British Soldier More William Bligh Quotes 0
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. William Blake English Poet More William Blake Quotes 0
George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none. Gary Coleman American Actor More Gary Coleman Quotes 0