If you take something like the slave-auction sketch, the warmth of the light gives it a crisp 12 Years a Slave look.… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as… — Reed Hundt Copy Share Image
It's the greatest game I ever saw. You can't lose. Everybody buys to sell and nobody buys to keep. What's worrying me… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want… — William McIlvanney Copy Share Image
Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not… — Tom Selleck Copy Share Image
Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week,… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them.… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries. — Cary Elwes Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had… — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to… — Steve Garvey Copy Share Image
Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the… — Chuck Thompson Copy Share Image
