Top 405 Bought Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Bought Quotes from famous people such as Zac Goldsmith, Henry Rollins, Donna Rice, Jean Pigozzi, Carmen Miranda, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a

I can’t be bought. I don’t need to be bought. I’m not a careerist. I don’t need to have a career in politics. I’m in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
Zac Goldsmith
My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don’t. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records.
Henry Rollins
I’m stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought.
Donna Rice
Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections.
Jean Pigozzi
I’ve chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!
Carmen Miranda
I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.
Blake Anderson
When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I’m appalling. I also bought several guitars.
Eddie Redmayne
I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.
Siri Hustvedt
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
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one – it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
Victoria Beckham
In early ’57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.
Johnny Rivers
We cannot have a president of the United States that is willing to abuse the power of the office of the presidency and be easily bought off by foreign governments, Chinese energy companies, Ukrainian energy companies.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to ‘automate’ our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.
Steven Sinofsky
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
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you’re either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
Harlan Coben
I was at a photo shoot, and I was wearing a cross necklace that my mom bought me, and somebody made a joke like, ‘Why are you wearing a cross? Like you would be religious.’ And then they took it away. I was really affected by that. The whole thing made me realize that I do want a cross with me at all times.
Kate Upton
I look for things that are left of center, something you’ve only seen your whole life, but never heard. Hit it! With a stick! I have a guitar made out of a 2×4 that I bought in Cleveland.
Tom Waits
Expenditure can’t really guarantee a great experience. I don’t even like shopping; I’ve never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.
Imtiaz Ali
When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I’ve failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
Pat Conroy
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
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
Bjorn Lomborg
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett’s stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
Sam Wyly
The first game I actually bought myself with my own money was ‘The Bard’s Tale.’
Markus Persson
My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants – you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.
Tom Heinsohn
My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of ‘Aladdin Sane’ when I didn’t have a record player. I had this record for a year before I could play it, and it was the image – not the sound – that I was attracted to. I just saw this image and thought he was my cousin.
Tilda Swinton
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 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’m a fan of making things that I’ve seen but couldn’t purchase, or things I bought that didn’t fit the way I like.
Andre Benjamin
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
John Ruskin
I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
Maeve Binchy
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 have always been making art from an early age but for

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.
Mike Thompson
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas Adams
I think it was ‘The Diary of Alicia Keys’. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money. I had a little Discman.
Brent Faiyaz
I still love records, and I’ve been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn’t just have my vinyls to stare at!
Gabrielle Aplin
I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He’s no longer here with me, but I still drive that same 1994 Chevy truck. I never have bought a new car.
Dierks Bentley
The first piece of property that I bought was in Tuscany in 1973.
Miriam Margolyes
I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn’t interested.
Laura Linney
People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish ‘featureless suburb’ of Croydon.
Kate Moss
I’d never bought the idea that you don’t lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I’ve never really made that much money.
John Lloyd
I had read an article about a couple who had developed a private forest in Coorg, and were working towards preserving it. I wanted to do something similar and wanted to give something back to the nature from which we have stolen so much. So my cousins and I bought 24 acres of land and we planted trees in that.
Atul Kulkarni
Whenever I made money I invested in myself… I bought whatever I needed to make my career better. I never really spent money on other stuff, like buying expensive cars.
Tiesto
All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.
Michael Moore
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
Seymour Cray
I bought a restaurant – that was pretty expensive.
Lukas Forchhammer
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
The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.
Roger McGuinn
True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.
Robert Mugabe
If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you’ve bought your own private mask.
Frances Conroy
I’ve probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.
Jon Johansen
Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
Campbell Brown
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