Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Steve Davies

He's on the auction block, he's living the life. You pay so much for the car and so much for the experience.

Evo Morales

We never requested this auction to be set back as it's important for the country. It's important that we seek investment.

Helmut Newton

Well, a copy was auctioned last year at a charity auction in Berlin, and it became the most expensive single book of the 20th Century.

Karen Shemonsky

I was a rookie at this. I had never been to an auction in my life.

Lori Miller

When the big-screen TV hit the thousands last year, everybody was paying attention. I don?t think ?intense? is the right word, but it had everyone?s attention. The auction benefits the YMCA, and people can get a top-quality item. It?s a win-win situation for everyone.

H. Hart

I feel like he is developing a different technique and I wish I had a little more time with him. He has great potential this year and he is developing quickly. I am working with him on a new style of diving and his technique when he goes off the diving board.

Charlie Whitehurst

Those guys have produced all year long. They don't have a lot of experience but they're developing into some excellent football players.

Tony Dungy

I think we have a pretty good team. We're still young, we still do things defensively that need some explanation at times. We play very hard, we practice well, we stay focused and those are all good signs. We have a lot of talented guys, so if you can keep that focus, we should be pretty good. I think we are developing into a good team.

Michael Williams

It may be an old fuel, but it's developing a new face.

Nicky Oppenheimer

It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.

Rahul Dravid

We are planning to developing a strategy which will give us 20 wickets in a match as in the last four encounters we were unable to do so for a victory.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.

James Franklin

Experience is not what matters in developing better forecasts. What does is making improvements to the models and atmospheric observations.

Irwin Redlener

Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Paul Allen

The Super Bowl. Wow! It's mind-blowing if you're a fan, how great it is to think of your team winning the Super Bowl.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

J. J. Johnson

The thing about Mike is he's so explosive. And he's going to make plays because he's got great quickness and great pad level.

Vic Wolffis

The thing about Kyle is that you can't say he hasn't only looked for himself. He's done a great job of getting other people involved. We've done this as a team.

David Whyte

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Kerry Stokes

I love Perth. It is my home, and no matter where I am in the world, Perth is where my heart is.

Jane Austen

I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.

Jamie McMurray

It was really special for Bass Pro Shops to take Tracker off the side and put Joplin, Missouri on there. They have helped me a lot this past week with putting together ways to raise money to help rebuild Joplin. It's my hometown. It was heartbreaking to see the tornado and see all the people that lost their homes and the ones that lost their lives. It is really special that Johnny let us put that on there. Hopefully we made some people proud tonight.

Jamie Bamber

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

P. J. Harvey

There is a problem with (work) encroaching on home life, if the individual does not manage it and set the boundaries,

Shannon Rouillard

The team really did respond in the second round, and I was proud of that. We had it going for a while, and Cathryn did an incredible job.

Tom Farley

I've told him my mother has this incredible archive.

Amanda Tobin

There's just been an incredible response from passengers and staff.

David Janollari

Thursday isn't want it used to be back in the day when NBC had that incredible stronghold.

Jeremy Bates

One thing that stands out is that the better shot I hit, the better shot he hit. I was playing serve and volley, and he had incredible passing shots from the most ridiculous positions.

Michelle King

She is truly incredible when she listens to the radio and is able to sing the harmonies. I?m jealous of that ability.

Dominic Moore

He's an incredible player and it would be a big absence.

Beckie Scott

We've been together since we were 15 years old. We've come through so much. It's an incredible feeling.

David Mackay

I have watched SS2 evolve over the years into an incredible vehicle that is going to open up space to more people than ever before.

Fred Haberman

The thing just started snowballing, and here we are today with 25 rinks on Lake Calhoun.

Steve Hill

No way. We haven't seen what other teams look like. We'll find out what the Lakers look like on Wednesday,

Ed Parkinson

This isn't like it plunged into the lake. This rolled into the lake and there was plenty of time for him to get out and tend to business.

Lech Walesa

If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

Elvis Costello

She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.

Rick Riordan

Yeah! Bring it on lake!" -Coach Gleeson Hedge

Cory Jacobs

We are proud of what we've done because nobody has done what we've done at Lake Fenton for a long time.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Antonin Scalia

The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.

Eileen collins

I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Dionne Warwick

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Jay Jacobs

People stumbled into the war by making mistakes.

Tom Daschle

People still would have the right to go to court,

Jodie Sweetin

People still watch 'Full House' all the time. It's on three times a day!

Gary Koenig

People still want it, that's why the old stars are still doing it.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Rebecca Stead

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

Roy Johnson

Its just not that rare if you look at the whole picture,

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

Marianne Williamson

I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Ben Harper

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

Beck

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Rita Ora

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

Rita Ora

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

Ray Davies

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

Tim Gane

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.

Taylor Momsen

I hold the record for signing the most boobs in my band.

Robbie Robertson

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

David Peel

We couldn't give it away or sell it. We didn't have permits.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.

Chris Eyre

bedroll to bedroll about the size of a single sleeping bag.

Henry David Thoreau

Live the life you've dreamed.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Simon Cowell

I couldn't understand a single word you said.

Janis Joplin

I'd trade all my tommorows for a single yesterday

Jude Law

When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.

John Norris

Everything is on track and going very well.

Usain Bolt

The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

Shonda Rhimes

I cannot keep track and lots of great shows go unnoticed.

Galway Kinnell

I start off but I don't know where I'm going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be a dead end, this is a dead end, and so on. The search takes a long time and I have to back-track often.

Bill Bradley

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Eydie Gorme

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

Kurt Voss

I'm used to doing a lot of dolly tracks.

Jeff Hawkins

This is a better way for us to keep track

Edwin Moses

The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.