Sold Quotes - page 5

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. (Al Jardine)
I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts. View quote
Bootsy Collins
I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made. View quote
Bruce Vilanch
I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches. View quote
Bruce Vilanch
You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values. View quote
Bernardine Dohrn
Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that. View quote
Charles Jencks
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley. View quote
Charley Pride
Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out. View quote
David Allan Coe
When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since. View quote
Darrell Royal
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that. View quote
Erik Estrada
I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out. (Edward Burtynsky)
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history. View quote
F. L. Lucas
When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed. View quote
Felicity Kendal
When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life. View quote
George Weah
Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state. View quote
Gerald McRaney
We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it. View quote
Greg Ginn
I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six. View quote
Isabel dos Santos
I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand. View quote
Jason Patric
I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine. View quote
Jean Giraud
I've done a lot of odd jobs, including waitressing, which most actors have done. I was a busboy - girl - when I was younger and sold things at little fairs when I was younger. I mostly related the role to being a waitress and having to deal with customers. There are good people and some not-so-good people. View quote
Jess Weixler
My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took control of the vineyard, hired a local winemaker, and bought another winery in 1996. We had our first commercial vintage in 1998. (Joe Bastianich)
At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold. View quote
John Gould
Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say. View quote
Ken Burns
I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form. View quote
Kit Williams
I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate. View quote
Kate Greenaway