Famous Quotes & Sayings

John McMillin

Even if the auction does not go to where some people expected it to, the stock had a great run up. I just don't see a lot of upside at this point.

Greg Isaacs

Today, most of us think about eBay as an auction site, but a third of the items that transact on eBay are actually fixed price.

Mark James

There's relief around the industry that the final 3G auction is over, ... The next sale of licenses is in France next year and that has been factored into company spending because it's a fixed-fee beauty contest.

Akitsugu Bando

Many investors were sidelined awaiting the outcome of the 20-year JGB auction while firmer equity prices also kept market participants at bay.

Tim Brady

On the auction side, it is a person-to-person payment, and right now they have to do that off line. The reason this is great for Yahoo! is that it really lowers the barrier for those transactions to take place.

Matt Lundy

Online auction sites are an excellent way for people from around the world to buy and sell goods. We strongly believe in the convenience and global reach of the virtual marketplace. Unfortunately, a number of online sellers are undermining trust in the system by using the Internet to hawk illegal products to unsuspecting consumers.

Charles Sullivan

If a child scored a 300 in reading last year and the score improved to 350 this year, the child and their parents would each receive the increased difference between the two scores in tickets to use as cash in an auction of many large-ticket items at the beginning of the next school year. The kids may use their tickets separately or combined with parents' to bid on items such as big-screen televisions, bicycles, DVD players and more.

Britney Spears

Since bidding for my jewel-encrusted bra in the eBay charity auction has exceeded our original expectations, I'm concerned that some of you may be confusing this bra for something that it's not.

Scott Townsend

Before the auction starts, tickets will be available for $20. The winner of the drawing will be able to pick out his/her choice from the items to be auctioned.

Robyn Jones

As far as I know there has never been a public library branch in May's Lick.

Richard Grasso

A separate entity would remove the cop on the beat, ... is not viewed as a profit drag, but ? as an investment in our brand and in building public confidence.

Greg Stuart

As consumers continue to embrace the Internet as an integral part of their everyday lives, marketers continue to acknowledge that interactive is a crucial medium to engage their customers and create deeper brand experiences.

Friedrich Schiller

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Robert Gordon

The brass in this instrument has been in use for nearly 500 years. Modern products often serve our needs for a few years or months before discard, jeopardizing the sustainable use of scarce metal resources.

Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Tucker Carlson

The Bush campaign is claiming that they've been working hard and they've had everything in place and they're ready to go and they're going to be able to pull it off. But it's really complicated. Thousands of people are going to get new jobs. The whole city and the whole executive branch are changing.

Bill Douglas

Augusta is the perfect market for us to deliver our decentralized brand of banking,

Santiago Ramón

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

Dan Hawkins

I should make a donation to their favorite charity, because I didn't give 'em their money's worth, that's for sure,

Jane Addams

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

Eduardo Galeano

Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.

Tim Hides

Everyone's having a good time ? it's for charity. But the firemen are probably a little upset right now.

Tim Chiodo

We all liked working for this charity and we liked basketball. So we put the two together and started a tournament.

Dorothy Day

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

Michael Bloomberg

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

Mark Twain

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

Paris Hilton

No one writes about my charity work, they'd rather write about me dancing on a table, which I've never done.

Gary Ruskin

So the question is who else is going to know. We are concerned about the invasion of privacy related to corporate advertisers knowing your position.

Kent Willis

School administrators are so concerned about discipline in school that they neglect the fundamental rights of students. Not only do students have a constitutional right to express themselves in the school so long as they're not disrupting the educational process, but schools ought to be encouraging students to express themselves.

Lara Rhame

This is not a 'ripping off the Band-Aid' kind of situation, where you know how much the pain will be and that you'll be fine afterwards. We don't know how well the economy has healed. The Fed remains very concerned ... that they might overshoot and give the economy such a shock they'll have to cut rates again.

Robert E. Lee

At present, I am not concerned with results. God's will ought to be our aim, and I am quite contented that His designs should be accomplished and not mine.

Stockwell Day

We are very concerned obviously with developments in Haiti.

Dave Bonnot

We were concerned that he seemed to be listening more to them (developers) then his constituents and us. He did say Mountain Springs was a great place to put a subdivision.

Richard Pound

We were concerned something might be going on in Italy.

Tom Padjen

We were concerned especially with homecoming week and everything. Defensively, we played a great game.

Michael Roth

We're looking at several things. We're concerned with the retaining wall, its stability from a water quality perspective, and their drainage controls, which are insufficient.

Flannery O'Connor

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

Rob Reiner

Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

Ronda Rousey

The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one.

David Irons

I'm just trying to get in the swing of things and learn the new system. It's not what we did last year, so it's real confusing at times.

Kara Swisher

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

Meg Whitman

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce

Harry Ponfil

If eBay wants to get a hold of you, it will pop up when you sign in there.

Mike Oliver

I wouldn't be surprised if some of it's showing up on eBay in some fashion, ... Some of that stuff can get expensive.

Darryl Sutter

Every goal that we've quietly set in our room, our players have reached it as a team. As a team, we've exceeded what I've expected. What we haven't exceeded -- or reached -- is individuals, where we thought they should be.

Paul English

We had some fairly high expectations and it exceeded our expectations. We're more than happy.

Paul Allen

What's happened so far has exceeded my expectations.

Kevin White

From Sunday through Friday our football team has exceeded all expectations. In fact, it's never been better.

Barry Trotz

But he thinks the game so well, and you don't have to skate as well if you're a real intelligent player. And we found out he was a real intelligent player, and he's been quite productive to this point. He's probably exceeded any expectations that we have.

Georg Hackl

I'm too old to race further. I have exceeded the expiration date.

Steve Martin

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

Michael Eisner

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

George Gershwin

It is always possible to create something original.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Atticus Ross

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.