Auction Quotes

51 quotes by 45 authors

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… — Edmund Burke
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… — James Lee Burke
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around… — Maya Angelou
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business… — H. L. Mencken
If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the… — Peter R. Orszag
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… — Brian Miller
This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away? — Jennifer Lawrence
The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services… — Margaret Thatcher
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods. — Ambrose Bierce
The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed;… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong. — Ann Richards
The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people what your product is worth.… — Bob Horner
Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse… — Edgar Degas
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the â€œquiet enjoymentâ€ of oneâ€™s private property… — Vin Suprynowicz
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action. — Andy Hargreaves
I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that. — Paul Lynde
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world. — A. Alfred Taubman
Get yourself a few â€˜Dime a Dozen Generals,â€™ bid high in the â€˜former statesmen lobby auctionâ€™, and put in your pocket one or two â€˜ex-congressmen… — Sibel Edmonds
I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a… — Neil Gaiman
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to… — James Lee Burke

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