Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Reynolds

In 166,000 auctions and $25 million worth of property we've sold on eBay we've never had a stolen item because any crook with brains in his head isn't going to take stuff to someone who photographs them and puts them on public display.

Michael K. Powell

High court review will protect the integrity of the FCC's auctions program, which Congress has chosen as the best method of assigning scarce and precious spectrum resources to those that will put them to their most productive use,

Gerald Lucas

Whether that's bad news for the upcoming auctions depends on whether you take a cup-half-empty or cup-half-full perspective.

Todd Beitler

Depending on competition from other bidders, you can generally buy properties at public auctions for 25 to 35 percent below market value.

Porter Erisman

This is going to make it hard for eBay to win in Asia. It totally reshapes the landscape for auctions in Asia.

Tom Cook

We use that money very judiciously, and it's always difficult at auctions because you never know where the prices will go.

Henry Howard

We're putting out feelers and will be watching Christie's closely to see what we can learn, ... But since holding auctions in China has to be done through intermediaries we will see how things develop.

Brian Bethune

New auctions will satisfy an unusual coincidence of needs on the supply and demand side of the fixed-income debt markets.

Dennis King

We don't serve drinks or ice cream in foam containers -- everything is placed into authentic glassware I basically obtained from auctions or yard sales.

Meredith Monk

I think I still have some confusion about the critical mind. But it seems that there's a difference between the critical mind, which is a kind of judgment, and has a harshness built in, cutting off impulses before they can develop, and discriminating intelligence, which can differentiate between what is authentic or genuine and what is contrived or forced.

Jim Walsh

I had been in a lot of Irish pubs all over the world, and I didn't know why we didn't have any here. I wanted to have an authentic Irish pub in town ... and I wanted it to be in Waterloo.

Todd McFarlane

I have to believe that a soldier doesn't do everything by the book when bullets are whizzing by their heads in battle, ... That's when survival and preservation instincts kick in and it's at that moment where you will find the best, authentic pose.

Craig Detweiler

The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have past. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience.

Tipu Sultan

Creating authentic recipes, served with traditional accompaniments and styles are the most important criterion in the presentation,

Paula White

I came to let you know, God is not going to his authenticity be destroyed.

Reese Witherspoon

They had authentic country roots. But I think they believe they were put on this earth to be together.

Roger Sessions

The more one studies these scores, the more indisputable one finds their evidences of authentic genius, and the more captivated one remains.

Thomas Friedman

I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.

Jack Horner

Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

Craig Anderson

Kids are basically little learning machines. Whatever the content is in front of them, they're going to pick it up.

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Nobbs

I talked to the umpire after the game and he said he thinks its nerves. We can't put our finger on it. Maybe it's just they don't know how to get ready yet. Basically it's coming from long days in school, and coming out and not really knowing what to expect.

E. P. Thompson

It breaks my heart to realize that the culture has basically transformed the church rather than the church confronting the culture and trying to transform it.

Leonard Little

It basically was a teaching session this year. It wasn't a thing where they came out and beat us up every day. We basically learned the position, and learned what we needed to do on every given play.

Larry Taylor

It basically took my life away. I don't really care if I see daylight tomorrow.

Michael Bird

It basically takes the 'block' out of the block grant concept.

Dan Sharp

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

John Parry

Unless they get off-balance sheet financing, the market would cream them.

Bob Baffert

He needs distance. When they start running a mile-and-an-eighth, that's when the cream rises to the top.

Mary Quant

I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.

Kevin Hovde

It just proves that in District 1 (Class) AAA, (the SCCL) is the cream of the crop.

Monica Crowley

Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate.

Mikel Olaciregui

It's been the cream of the crop this year.

Clark Kellogg

It's just a matter of personal preference. Some people like strawberry ice cream and some people like vanilla. If you put a gun to my head, I'd be hard pressed to pick one over the other.

Leonard Hamilton

Then they're going to find out that the cream will rise to the top. I think you will see that we're going to represent very well.

Claiborne Pell

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

John McCarthy

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

John Czwartacki

It is a little like a reformed alcoholic taking little drinks - pretty soon, you have a real problem on your hands.

Frank Lloyd

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches fifty, and a fool if he doesn't drink afterward

Meg Rosoff

There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.

Nelson Peltz

After Cadbury, the candy company, separated from Dr. Pepper, the soft drinks maker, Cadbury was able to substantially lower its debt load. The profits of Cadbury, the candy company, zoomed.

Chris Liddell

So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the sort of person who takes drinks away from people at the end of a party.

Benjamin Jaffe

This is an improvisational period. If we have to sell drinks to stay open, we'll sell drinks.

Ibrahim Jaafari

Don't take any drinks or food from people you do not know.

John Sicher

Energy drinks are enjoying phenomenal growth and Hansen has done a terrific job with its brands.

Kelvin Goertzen

I suspect we're just scratching the surface and getting the very tip of the iceberg of the marijuana that is being grown.

Jeff Perry

He can skate and sees the ice very well and he has a big shot.

Mike Dunleavy

He's got ice water in his veins. He just comes in and makes big plays.

George Smith

What do you do when you want to keep meat fresh? You put it on ice, right? Well, we have ice in our blood, so we are preserved well.

Woody Allen

Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.

Tori Amos

On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

Ryan Stiles

Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.

Rudy Rucker

What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is it finite, or is it infinite? Which of the following does space resemble more: (a) a sheet of paper, (b) an endless desert, (c) a soap bubble, (d) a doughnut, (e) an Escher drawing, (f) an ice cream cone, (g) the branches of a tree, or (h) a human body?

William Lloyd Garrison

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

Michael Rains

What we're saying is, who are the real cheaters? They are the ones who are using these illegally obtained materials.

Granth Sahib

Tell me, without the worship, who has ever obtained the supreme status?

Robert A. Schuller

I think family-run ministries are fabulous, but they have to be placed in proper governance.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.

Mark Rosenbaum

Thousands of students are placed on uneven playing fields,

Bill Steele

Unlike soap or deodorant, which can be placed by marketing, shaving is very much performance.

Jannie Brenner

We placed second. This is the first year of the team, and today, we've got first- to eighth-graders here.

John Greene

He wanted to serve his country, ... If that's what he had to do, that's what he had to do.

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Lea Barrett

There is a need to place some students on the Mullins campus... and my recommendation is for Dr. Dow-Harris to serve as principal.

Tom Ridge

He is not one to parse. He has said he will serve out his term and that has not changed,

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I had a lot of trouble with my serve in this tournament.

Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

John Petersen

They serve tough, but we have to get up some dumps, we have to be all over those balls.

Deirdre Fedkenheuer

Once you violate parole, you must serve the remainder of the sentence.

Willie Nelson

It can't get much worse, 100 yards an hour, ... It's frustrating bumper-to-bumper.

Charles Thompson

We just have them play in the yard and the street, but we'd like for them to come play in the park.

Brian Griese

Hopefully, we can get a yard or two out there.

Carl Jung

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

Truman Capote

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

Jim Parsons

In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.

Philip Hobbs

In another 100 yards he would have been in front. In fact, in another 50 yards.

Henry Ford

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

Jason Kadah

It may well be in our own back yard by the end of the week.