Quotes About Acquisition

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.

mere acquisition isn't enough to establish a good habit

If you need to buy things to store things, perhaps you have too many things.

The man who wears no socks can acquire things which bestockinged people can never obtain. By saving on socks, one can afford stamps for letters to philosophers throughout the world and get from them the correct interpretation of obscure words in Sanskrit.

Death is the real reason why property and acquisition can never become a true political principle. A social system based essentially on property cannot possibly proceed toward anything but the final destruction of all property. The finiteness of personal life is as serious a challenge to property as the foundation of society, as the limits of the globe are a challenge to expansion as the foundation of the body politic.

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

Guys never really get over their toys.

Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

I had a huge Lisa Frank sticker collection. I traded them.

I've owned about 2,000 guitars through the years because I've traded a lot and given away and sold some stuff.

There's something fascinating about record collector minds, hoards of quotes shared and dealt like cards, lines traded, images bought.

When I got traded to the Lakers in '97, Kobe Bryant was just a rookie.

The hardest thing to do in this league is to get a proven star. It's just very hard to do. It's hard to do in free agency; it's hard to do in trades. You get very few opportunities to do it.

Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent

In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires.

To a true collector, the acquisition of an old book is its rebirth," Oscar quoted, absent self-consciousness.

Never get attached to possessions…. They're just things and you can always get more things.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

We are not born with wisdom, but we acquire it by reading books.

The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]