Auctions Quotes

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Publication - is the auction of the mind.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.

A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.

I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.

My first ball I ever got from a big-league player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

Dark money has turned our elections into auctions

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.

When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.

In all fairness to the auction companies ? most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make sure that they have done their homework before they raise their hand and not after.

I love going to tag sales, to auctions.

I got [Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts] for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house.

We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.

Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.

The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction delivered cost savings.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.