My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries. — Cary Elwes Copy Share Image
I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that. — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder. — Bill Moyers 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
I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I… — Mikhail Baryshnikov 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
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
Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here… — Zhang Xin 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
I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
In all fairness to the auction companies ? most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make… — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive -… — Brian Miller Copy Share Image
I think there is going to be a whole market and we'll start to see hip-hop jewelry regularly in jewelry auctions around… — Simon de Pury 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
So, you're seeing the Rolls-Royces and the Bentley's still selling for big prices. You're seeing jewelry still selling, art works at auction.… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people what your… — Bob Horner 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
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until,… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I talked to Larry the Cable Guy the other day. Larry's made more money than 10 people should ever make in a… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The current climate doesn't represent a threat to the production of art but to the market. I think it's time for artists… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be… — George Soros Copy Share Image
They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our… — Chrystos 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
Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the… — Peter R. Orszag 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
Auctions create greater price discovery and liquidity, resulting in a very meaningful final auction price. If you were building a securities exchange… — Tyler Winklevoss Copy Share Image
By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I was given all of my dad's guitars when he passed, and they were being stored at the house. My mother decided… — Dweezil Zappa 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
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