Top 100 You Can Buy Quotes
#1. money is not the goal so much as what you can buy with it.
Vadim Zeland
#2. Drinking goes with everything, there's always an excuse to drink. We sell beer and liquor 24/7/365 everywhere, you can buy a 5th of vodka at 3am on Easter Sunday if you want.
Kirk Windstein
#3. Listen, you don't know any better so I'll just tell you. You can't try to save money by not having the right beer. You know, you can skip having medical insurance, you can buy everything you own at a swap meet but the right beer is what makes living like this possible.
Drew Carey
#4. The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.
Nicholas Johnson
#5. Tiffany looked around - the hiver looked around - and thought: I've got to be the strongest. When I am strongest, I shall be safe. That one is weak. She thinks you can buy magic.
Terry Pratchett
#6. I used to love going to shows and finding new bands, but the Internet takes the fun out of it. Like a band? You can buy and download every single song they have ever done within five minutes.
Timothy Simons
#7. The sort of guardian you can hire is worth about as much as the sort of wife you can buy.
Robert A. Heinlein
#8. A player you can buy in 24 hours, believe me. That's not a problem
Louis Van Gaal
#10. Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
J.G. Ballard
#11. Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy
they should be about what mark you leave in the world.
Claire Cross
#12. Investors ... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.
Warren Buffett
#13. You can buy a man's time; you can buy his physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of his skilled muscular motions per hour. But you cannot buy enthusiasm ... you cannot buy loyalty ... you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, mind or souls. You must earn these.
Clarence Francis
#14. It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.
Alan Ball
#15. The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.
Wynton Marsalis
#16. I've gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I'm back to a flip-phone. It's funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they're considered antiques.
Tim Allen
#17. But more importantly in my book of life, it's what you can't buy with money that is often more important than what you can buy.
Carew Papritz
#18. The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
Ina Garten
#19. God, Sarah. No. Just, no. I'm not talking money. I don't want your money. You think you can buy true power? You can't. If you could, history would be written by the practitioners." 'So, what then?" Here it was. "Your soul, Sarah. The price is your soul.
J.P. Sloan
#20. In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can buy any book in the world on your iPad, or off Amazon, you don't go the public library. The public library becomes about homeless gentlemen sleeping in chairs.
William Monahan
#21. I'm not some whore you can buy with a pan of yummy baked goods, woman. How dare you insult me?
R.L. Mathewson
#22. Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2,000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1,000, and sell a thousand of them.
Jerry Gillies
#23. Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
Carine Roitfeld
#24. When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
#25. Researchers found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips and cookies; spent on a whole food like carrots, the same dollar buys only 250 calories. On the beverage aisle, you can buy 875 calories of soda for a dollar, or 170 calories of fruit juice from concentrate.
Michael Pollan
#26. E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button.
J.A. Konrath
#27. You can buy me a drink if you want," the kid says, suddenly appearing at Pip's shoulder. He turns round a bit to look at him, trying not to smile.
"That's generous of you."
"Ain't it?"
"What makes you think I'd wanna buy another man a drink?"
"Cos your t-shirt's got a unicorn on it.
Richard Rider
#28. That was what should truly matter in this world. What you have to offer people, not what you can buy.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#29. There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It's one thing to say you get perks; it's another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.
Arthur Caplan
#30. I'm just, 'Hi, I'm Shamir. I'm gonna sing, hug you, then you can buy my album.'
Shamir
#31. Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.
John Dos Passos
#33. Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any monoprix store. it's built into all poor-quality goods.
Graham Greene
#34. I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.
Marco Pierre White
#35. I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.
Demetri Martin
#36. As far as Love Dare for Parents goes, you can download the book. You can buy it at bookstores ... We're really excited about it and believe that it's going to make significant impact for parents.
Alex Kendrick
#37. Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.
Tom Freston
#38. You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.
Haruki Murakami
#39. I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.
Adam Ant
#40. Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
Beau Willimon
#41. No jury, we knew, could convict a man on the criminal count on native evidence in a land where you can buy a murder-charge, including the corpse, all complete for fifty-four rupees
Rudyard Kipling
#42. You can buy beer now, she said, finding it almost funny after how much effort they used to go to get it in high school.
It's one of my proudest accomplishments.
Cindi Madsen
#44. The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent
Phillip Adams
#45. Religious unity does not come so easily. It is not a piece of pie, which you can buy in the shop. It takes sincere efforts from every single human being on this planet.
Abhijit Naskar
#46. Today, you can buy chess programs for $49 that will beat all but world champions, yet no one thinks they're intelligent.
Anonymous
#47. I think we are in an age where cash pays for time and space. The more cash you have, the bigger space you can buy and the smaller the technology to put in it.
Lemn Sissay
#48. You can buy gold that is bright as the sun and diamonds as pale as the moon. But you cannot buy the sun. You cannot own the moon. II
David Gemmell
#49. If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that.
Joshua Becker
#50. America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
John Barrymore
#52. Everyone's an equal shareholder. Birth shares are inalienable, and death duties are unavoidable. The estate tax is one hundred per cent. In between, you can buy and sell and earn as much as you like.
Ken MacLeod
#53. July is high burglary season because so many people leave town. To help avoid making that obvious, suspend your newspaper subscription and have your mail held. Another clear indication is if all your lights are off for an extended period. To fix that, you can buy a timer for about $30.
Jean Chatzky
#54. Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#55. I have a cousin Ernie who buys stuff. He's got a big snowblower that's actually the biggest snowblower you can buy, with a remote control, so he doesn't even have to go outside. He's got the microwave and a satellite dish, it's all in one. He cooks and watches at the same time.
Louie Anderson
#56. You can buy a Talking Barbie anywhere, but you can't even special order Listening Ken.
Burl Barer
#57. A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.
Peter Mayhew
#58. You can buy muscles, but you can't buy COJONES!
Bas Rutten
#59. The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.
Walter Lippmann
#60. They buy things in ready-made stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#62. You can buy a box of low-fat macaroni and cheese made with powdered nonsense. I'm not worried if I'm using four different cheeses and it's high in fat. It's real food. That's what's more important.
Tom Colicchio
#63. New Rule: If we want to find a place to cut government waste, we must start with the DEA rubber duck. Yes, on the DEA's website you can buy a rubber ducky with a DEA badge and a cop's hat. Which I recommend doing, because they're a great place to hide your weed.
Bill Maher
#64. Remember that the interest is paid on the face value of the bond, so if you can buy a 5 per cent bond at just 10 per cent of its face value you can earn a handsome yield of 50 per cent. In essence, you expect a return proportional to the risk you are prepared to take.
Niall Ferguson
#65. You can buy a person's time and work, but you cannot buy their enthusiasm, effort, and passion. Those are earned, and as such, given freely.
Jeffrey Fry
#66. You can't buy happiness, but you can buy books and that's kind of the same thing.
Anonymous
#67. Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.
Scott Adams
#68. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all
the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
Randy Komisar
#69. I don't care what anybody says: Nothing is better than a tomato you grow. There's something about it that's different than a tomato you can buy. It's a great thing.
Tom Vilsack
#70. As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.
Jo Nesbo
#71. You can buy freedom, but you can't buy honor.
Luke Zubrod
#72. For $425 you can buy pills containing real gold that make your poop sparkle. How have I lived this long without sparkly poop?
Michael Makai
#73. There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.
Michael D. Barnes
#74. There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.
Nicholas Lea
#75. Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There's no how-to road map to style. It's about self-expression and, above all, attitude.
Iris Apfel
#76. I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'
Ving Rhames
#77. There is no substitute for character. You can buy brains but you cannot buy character.
Robert A. Cook
#78. Credit default swap gives you something to do. You can buy some credit default swaps from them to protect yourself against the bankruptcy of people who owe you money.
Robert F. Engle
#79. This would require an e-book reader that is as easy to read as a traditional book, durable to abuse as much as we abuse paperbacks and cheap enough that when you lose it, you can buy another one
John Scalzi
#80. I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.
Sandra Lee
#81. Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it.
Richard Thaler
#82. You can buy wisdom from nowhere; but for the foolishness, you don't have to buy it; it is free and it is everywhere.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
Charlie Munger
#84. In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.
Jet Li
#85. Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want. Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace
Sophie Kinsella
#86. I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.
Liv Tyler
#87. You don't need personal fabrication in the home to buy what you can buy because you can buy it. You need it for what makes you unique, just like personalization.
Neil Gershenfeld
#88. It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.
Ryan North
#89. It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
Barack Obama
#90. You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy.
George Lucas
#91. Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.
Vironika Tugaleva
#92. I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
Kate Winslet
#93. Those things you can buy have no value but have a price. Those things you cannot buy have value and are priceless.
Debasish Mridha
#94. It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
Tom T. Hall
#95. Kindness and compassion are sisters but not twins. One you can buy, the other is priceless.
Janet Mock
#96. Who would want to buy a good car when you can buy an American car?
Bob Packwood
#97. You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it.
J. Michael Straczynski
#98. I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.
Raquel Welch
#99. Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.
Jeffrey Kluger
#100. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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