Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches!
If we look at 'Borderlands,' I can't honestly say that there is anything about how well the game sold that I'm disappointed about.
It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.
Airbrushing has sold such a false idea of what a body looks like to the point where people can't tell what's real and what's fake.
I realized I was a gamer when I didn't sleep three consecutive nights playing EverQuest, which was a popular MMORPG sold at retail.
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.
I've done very well financially and sold a lot because I've had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That's a conscious strategy.
I was very young at Manchester United, and I feel that I was just starting to find my feet when I was sold and Rooney was brought in.
I have a fan base. I've sold a million albums in country music. I've got fans out there who love my music and would like to hear more.
My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.
I guess people just like Netflix. And they like rom-coms, and I was fortunate enough to book two random ones that got sold to Netflix.
Whether it's a huge hit or sold five copies, as long artistically and creatively I can stand by what I did, then I'll feel successful.
Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.
The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since.
We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.
I sold my Chevron. I sold my ConocoPhillips. I sold my Statoil. I sold my ENSCO. I sold my Pioneer Natural Resources. I sold everything.
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
There was a time when the directors would sign me first and then go to the hero. There was a time when on my name a film used to be sold.
I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
Everything we're doing online is being not just monitored, but that information is being packaged up and sold and resold to manipulate us.
I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!
I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.
The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.
I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.
My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
Our first album sold a million copies. Because we had such a big hit on the first album, it's always like, 'You can't top the first album.'
Matt Bonner. That's the legend right there. I was in fifth grade and watched him play at our local high school. Sold out. It was incredible.
My return was interesting because Bellator gave me a stage that was worthy of the return of Wanderlei Silva. I was the main event, sold out.
We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.
There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.
The first record blew up and sold really well. 'City of Black & White' didn't sell as well, and that's when you wonder, 'Did I peak already?'
I am not a mercenary. Milan was my home. They made a good deal, though. They signed me for 10 million euros and sold me for 42 million euros.
One reason I was so convinced that Redfin would work was that I never met anyone who bought or sold a home who thought the process was ideal.
It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out to Hollywood.
I met Les Paul when I was about 5. I was taken to see him perform and the place was sold out, just packed and full of really great musicians.
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.
I wrote 'Little Fires Everywhere' and sold the book in 2015, still the Obama years. The possibility of a Trump presidency was not on my radar.
We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.
My biggest frustration is the lack of scale in the music industry. The fact that no one has sold 100 million copies of an album is frustrating.
Certain classes of weapons that are strictly military and have no useful purpose in sport, hunting, or self-defense should not be legally sold.
My wife and I sold our house in L.A. and we moved out to the high desert in California, by Joshua Tree, and we're out in the middle of nowhere.
There is no one like Toto in history in that we were both successful as session musicians and also had a band that sold so many million records.
'My Fair Godmother's' movie rights sold to the producer who did 'Freaky Friday,' 'Princess Diaries,' and one of my favorite movies - 'Sky High.'
It's interesting for me to sell Comme des Garcons in places it's never been sold before to people who might not have heard of Comme des Garcons.
I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000 copies, and we sold them all.