Quotes About Acquisition

When I get a job, I buy one really nice thing to have something to show for it.

If you want nice things, you have to pay for them.

When EA acquired Bullfrog there were, like, 35 people, and within nine months there were 200. And any feeling of culture and inventiveness was diluted by that.

It used to be that you would go in to see a CEO, and you would ask them, 'Is your company for sale?' and if they said 'No, we have no interest in selling,' that was sort of the end of the conversation.

Zaid's finest moment, however, comes in his second paragraph, when he says that the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. That's me! And you, probably! That's us!

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

But with each passing year, and each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

The culture and ideology fostered in this globalization process relate largely to "lifestyle" themes and goods and their acquisition; and they tend to weaken any sense of community helpful to civic life.

Because you cannot study the acquisition or use of language in an intelligent manner without having some idea about this language which is acquired or utilized.

language acquisition is not a step-by-step process of generalization, association, and abstraction, going from linguistic data to the grammar, and that the subtlety of our understanding transcends by far what is presented in experience.

buying was exhilarating, and

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.

That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you'd never need more. That if enough people loved you, you'd stop needing love.

You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.

The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.

A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore.

S ?ímkoliv, co si poÃ…â"¢ídíÅ¡, vykládá, získáÅ¡ jenom jednu vÄ›c navíc, kterou pak ztratíÅ¡.

I'm so horny I have to go downtown and hunt for something to steal. It's a sexual release. You find what you want. You stalk it. You grab it and make it your own. After you've had it, you throw it away.

The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possessions. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.

As Henry Ford once put it, "If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors.