Welcome to Bought Quotes, where the art of expression meets the allure of consumer culture. In today’s world, the concept of buying extends far beyond mere transactions; it intertwines with our identities, desires, and aspirations. Whether we’re purchasing a product, an experience, or an idea, the act of buying often reflects our values, preferences, and perspectives. From the profound to the mundane, quotes about buying encapsulate the complexities and nuances of this ubiquitous human activity.
Here, we delve into the world of bought quotes, exploring the myriad ways in which buying influences our lives, thoughts, and interactions. Through insightful reflections, witty observations, and poignant musings, these quotes offer glimpses into the multifaceted nature of consumption. They remind us of the power and pitfalls of purchasing, prompting introspection, critique, and appreciation. Whether celebrating the joys of acquisition, cautioning against its pitfalls, or questioning its societal implications, bought quotes invite us to contemplate the role of buying in shaping our individual and collective experiences. As you explore the curated collection below, consider how these quotes resonate with your own perspectives and experiences on the topic of buying.
I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it. Louis XIV
The truth is that a number of us have been saying for quite some time that it was only a matter of time until someone went to a gun show, bought a military-like semi-automatic assault weapon with a large capacity magazine, and did enormous damage. David Petraeus
I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn’t want to bring up their children there. So they saved up money and bought a house in Plumstead, semi-detached, three bedrooms. Tinie Tempah
I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included. Steven Wright
The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn’t hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today. Nick Mason
The percentage you’re paying is too high priced While you’re living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he’s made on your dreams. Steve Winwood
The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car. Lady Gaga
I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn’t know how, and I wouldn’t use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful. Michael Moschen
Many of my single mom friends and I had a fear of appearing poor, especially when we bought groceries with food stamps, or used WIC checks for milk. Stephanie Land
I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. Mitch Hedberg
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over. Gore Vidal
In our family a whole ham on the bone would be bought three days before Christmas, and then stored in a pillow case and left in the fridge so anyone can take the huge thing out and slice it. John Torode
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. George Sand
The health of Americans must no longer be a commodity to be traded, bought, or sold for profit by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. We must promote medical and Medicaid home models to provide comprehensive care for body, mind, and spirit. Deb Haaland
I’ve spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread. Leo Buscaglia
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
Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don’t want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from. Sam Worthington
When I first moved to L.A., my mum just bought me a cupboard full of vitamins. Cod liver oil, echinacea, magnesium. Jacob Elordi
Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it’s your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought. Jimmy Breslin
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. Gordon Parks
If I buy a Fiat Uno, I’ll read that, for a man like me, a Ferrari was more suitable. If instead I buy a Ferrari, they’ll write that I should have kept my feet on the ground and bought a Fiat. If I smile, I’m not serious. If I don’t smile, I’m a rich sulker that doesn’t enjoy having the most beautiful job in the world. Mario Balotelli
My first year on ‘SNL’, I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I’m thinking, ‘I’ve got 45 grand left!’ Taxes didn’t even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture. Chris Rock
I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it’s a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one to live in and one as an investment. They love to eat, drink and dress up in costumes. There are so many reasons to dress up – Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence. Jennifer Coolidge
I bought a Rolex Submariner. I had never really owned a nice watch like that, and it was a big investment, so that’s my go-to. I always wear it when I travel with suits and stuff. Auston Matthews
Love gives itself; it is not bought. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I always bring my little ukelele along in my shopping bag which my dear, sweet father bought me. After all, you just never know when a song might come along. Tiny Tim
In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster. W. Edwards Deming
I was my thinnest when doing 35 fashion shows a week in different countries because I didn’t have time to eat. I’ve never bought the idea that models in fashion magazines cause readers to have anorexia and bulimia. And you can’t be a model if you’ve got those conditions anyway, because you’ll get acne and hair all over your body. Jerry Hall
I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you’ve bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger. Tina Turner
I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London. Bonnie Tyler
The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house. Janine Turner
What I do now is all my dad’s fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. Rod Stewart
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray. Seymour Cray
I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it. Steven Wright
Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news. Bernie Sanders
I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate. Trixie Mattel
I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had ‘bikini’d’ me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy. Amanda Burton
I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars – BMW’s mostly – for myself and my family. Tom Felton
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. Douglas Adams
Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God. Thinking that we can trade our good works for salvation is like buying a plane ticket and then supposing we own the airline. Or thinking that after paying rent for our home, we now hold title to the entire planet earth. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me. Alice Walker
My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that’s all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn’t Mama. Now I’ve bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them. Dolly Parton
Plain white T-shirts do it for me every time. You can spend anything from ?3 to ?50 on a T-shirt, but I’ve bought some great ones from H&M, as well as shelling out on Duffer Of St George and a Polish label I discovered while filming ‘Robin Hood’ in Hungary called Scotch And Soda. Jonas Armstrong
A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet of flowers bought once a year. Penny Jordan
My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality. Jay London
I bought my wife Leighanne a silver BMW Z8 sports car one Christmas and tied it up with a big red bow in the driveway of our house. Brian Littrell
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
I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines and had a blast. The most memorable was going to Barcelona on a whim and scalping tickets at the Olympics to the Dream Team Quarterfinals. Mark Cuban
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies. Patricia Highsmith
I don’t feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn’t turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding. Tom Selleck
I don’t collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, ‘I have a ’54 Strat worth $50,000.’ And I don’t collect the way Nash does. Nash has Duane Allman’s guitar and Johnny Cash’s guitar. I bought guitars because they sounded good. I played them, they sounded unbelievably good, and I couldn’t resist. David Crosby
I went window shopping today! I bought four windows. Tommy Cooper
I’ve lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa. Ina Garten
I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn’t have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that – except I couldn’t afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering. David Bowie
I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturday afternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of ‘Watchmen,’ his graphic novel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse. Susanna Clarke
I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I’ve been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility. David Cassidy
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner
We’ve begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet – so we bought a dog. Well, it’s cheaper, and you get more feet. Rita Rudner
Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they’re all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment. Noel Gallagher
My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, ‘I almost didn’t recognize you without a hat on’, I could have bought the Cowboys myself. Tom Landry
I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined. Mitch Albom
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. David Rockefeller
I bought Jayne Mansfield’s mansion in L.A. after her death. I had met her in England and remembered her perfume. When I moved in, I could smell her, and I saw her apparition. Engelbert Humperdinck
Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life. Craig Sager
We just bought this house. It’s too big. It’s like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It’s just too big. Adam Sandler
Not to sound cliche, but some of the first things that I bought were for my homies and my team: making sure the people that helped me and ensured my security and safety during my come-up, while I was broke, had the opportunity to be okay. Logic
When you search for Fortnite on iOS, you’ll often get PUBG or Minecraft ads. Whoever bought that ad in front of us is the top result when searching for Fortnite. It’s just a bad experience. Why not just make the game available direct to users, instead of having the store get between us and our customers and inject all kinds of cruft like that? Tim Sweeney
A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side – which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress. Drew Barrymore
I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, ‘Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!’ Mac DeMarco
When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I’ve bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don’t know when you can find the bottom. Peter Lynch
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. George Washington
I bought an island in 1987. It’s in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It’s the best $65,000 I’ve ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there. Dan Aykroyd
I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister. Trey Parker
I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters. Debbie Macomber
I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music – it’s like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band. Courtney Love
I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours’ lives hell! Eva Green
I’m actually from Mt. Kisco, New York, which is in Westchester County, and when I auditioned for ‘Dukes,’ I told them I was from Snailville, Georgia, which doesn’t exist, and I’d just graduated first in my class from the Georgia School of High Performance Driving, which also doesn’t exist. But they bought it. John Schneider
Russia does not have a modern economy: it’s a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can’t meet payroll. Kathleen Troia McFarland
There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right? J. Cole
The first house I bought was a little Spanish bungalow on Clinton Street in West Hollywood, right behind the Improv. I was renting it, and I asked the owners if I could buy it, and they were really nice and let me work out a deal. And I fixed it up and later sold it. That was when I realized that if you make some improvements, you can make money. Ellen DeGeneres
The first really good piece I ever bought for myself was right after ‘Gunsmoke’ started. I couldn’t wait to get my first pay check so I could buy that pinky finger ring, with diamonds and emeralds. Amanda Blake
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Emma Goldman
I’m just excited to be in the fashion business. With my son, we did Trukfit, and I think that’s been super innovative for the people that bought it and his lifestyle and how he comes across with the skater look. We just excited. Birdman
My boyfriend keeps telling me I’ve got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. ‘Why a house?’ ‘Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.’ Julia Roberts
There is no one thing that can turn around a rejection. But there is one answer: begin talking to your customers who have already bought from you and discover why they bought. Jeffrey Gitomer
I wish I could relive those days when I was 8 and my mother bought all the gifts I gave to people. I loved watching people open them. It was a surprise for me and then. Emily Hampshire
Kids just don’t read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It’s just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population. Stan Sakai
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. Joseph Addison
I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum. Peter O’Toole
I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing ‘Legend of Zelda’ at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours. Robin Williams
I don’t want expensive gifts; I don’t want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure. Princess Diana
The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter. August Wilson
The greatest want of the world is the want of men – men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. Ellen G. White
I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game. Warren Buffett
A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it’s not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen. Joyce Maynard
Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition. Charles Spurgeon
For Secret Santa a few years ago, I bought one of the lads I used to play with a block of cheese. Jamie Vardy
My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up in my room, and I was just trying to figure out how to play the guitar and put words with what I was learning. Morgan Wallen
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P. J. O’Rourke
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. Simon Cameron