Top 37 Quotes About Auctions
#2. Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions.
Kelly Wearstler
#3. The greatest sin is to be unconscious.
Carl Jung
#4. They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.
Chrystos
#5. Dark money has turned our elections into auctions
Fred DuVal
#6. 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 a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.
Damien Hirst
#7. President George Washington's namesake capital, once a marketplace for slave auctions, is now synonymous with democracy and freedom; so is the iconic Jefferson, who wanted to build an "Empire of Liberty" for the world.
Patrick Mendis
#8. The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.
George Soros
#9. I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
Jerry Saltz
#10. I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
Jeffrey Archer
#11. I think there is going to be a whole market and we'll start to see hip-hop jewelry regularly in jewelry auctions around the world. Therefore, anybody who gets on the train early can only do well financially in the long run.
Simon De Pury
#12. The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.
Reed Hundt
#14. Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!
Robert Blair
#15. I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
Robert Rauschenberg
#19. Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque ... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.
Jerry Saltz
#20. This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?
Jennifer Lawrence
#21. 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.
Brian Miller
#22. An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
Ambrose Bierce
#23. Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.
Nicki Minaj
#24. 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
#25. My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.
Brian Hodge
#26. 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.
Dennis Miller
#27. It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
Andrew Jackson
#28. I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.
Dan Butler
#29. 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.
Steve Garvey
#30. I mean, I think everybody should probably approach a film that it's another unwanted thing. That's going to be seared onto my brain for the rest of my life. Thank you for that.
Johnny Depp
#31. My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.
Paul Brown
#32. A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.
Rumi
#33. Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.
Vikram Roy
#34. My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
Jason Statham
#35. Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
Yaya Han
#36. 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!
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#37. If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.
Nathan Fielder
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