Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Bennett

He is the magical name in our field, but they're incredibly rare. The last major Van Gogh portrait to come to auction was in 1998 and prior to that in 1990.

Tohru Sasaki

Good auction results show continuing inflows of foreign funds into the U.S., supporting the dollar.

William Floyd

it is not uncommon in auction situations for proposals and counter-proposals to be received.

Curtis Barfield

I went to school so I could fill in for Bobby when he needs a break or has to be away to do another auction somewhere. I do OK, but he's a lot better. He's an artist.

David Todd

The rain poured, ... It started Friday afternoon, stopped for a while -- about the time the livestock auction was supposed to start it just poured and it rained pretty much the whole night.

Wes Lane

I'd like to see the auction extended all night and into the next day.

Shane Matthews

I am just calling all my buddies around the league and equipment managers and telling them to send whatever they come up with. Instead of throwing stuff away, put it up for auction and people can use their money for a good cause.

Makoto Yamashita

Investors cannot justify buying bonds and they want to avoid 10-year yields going lower than 1.3 percent. There is a five-year note auction next week and investors don't want to have a low coupon on it.

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.

Colin Mochrie

I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

Brian Cashman

He's a unique player. Not only is he someone who is incredibly talented on the field, but that talent actually translates to success in New York,

Paul Gregg

I think it's incredibly sad at the moment that we are actually contemplating selling Wayne Rooney,

Colin Egglesfield

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

Donald Stewart

It invites chaos. Leaving a job precipitously is just incredibly foolish.

Annalee Newitz

I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.

Jason Treutelaar

He was incredibly strong as we sealed up the win. He took it to the hole.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.

Stella Young

In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.

J. Taylor

I'm incredibly shocked at how controversial this became.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Brett Albanese

There are a lot of species that have not been seen in the last 10 or 15 years.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

David Malpass

What you have been seeing over the last year is the policy of Jiang Zemin, not Deng Xiaoping.

Tony Pullen

I told them going into the seventh inning we want to make it a magical season so let's make it a magical first game.

Bob Snyder

It was a wonderful, magical night of music,

Nnedi Okorafor

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Agnus Berenato

We've had a magical season. I don't think we're ready for it to end.

Ozzie Guillen

Every day, it's somebody different. I've never seen a team as magical as this one.

Paul Alexander

We went there in the middle of the night, the 'blue hour' between midnight and 3am. Talk about haunted! It's a magical place to work.

M. Wolfe

For whatever reason, $199 tends to be a magical price point.

Howard Davidowitz

The advertisers are gone. It's a question of getting them back. But getting every one of them back is priced into the stock. The stock is priced as if everything she does is magical and perfect.

Ron Taffel

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Scott Erickson

What we wanted to do was just put to rest the question of, 'Hey, are they going to be around now that (Apple is) making a major switch to Intel?

Jon Cryer

His name is Blane? That's a major appliance, that's not a name!

Dr. Armstrong

I think it's a major step forward. There's no question about it.

David Becker

I think it's a major step forward, I don't think it signals any retreat from vigorous enforcement.

Rhodri Morgan

It is all part of a major Welsh revival. We are raising our game, and not just on the rugby field.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Sylvana Foa

I think (that) the major conclusions are that there are a lot of very rich people who are getting very, very rich, and there are a lot of very, very poor people who are getting even poorer.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Donna Norris

I would tell him the 'Bad Man' took her and did this to her. The name just kind of stuck.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Alice Cooper

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Richelle Mead

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

Umberto Eco

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Rick Riordan

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Wavy Gravy

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.

Helmut Newton

It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.

Oriana Fallaci

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

Mark Gatiss

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

Plotinus

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

Maria Shriver

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

Dick Gephardt

I think the priority has to be Social Security and Medicare,

Jakaya Kikwete

I will make sure research and development is a top priority in agricultural development.

Robert Mueller

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

Sarah Kay

One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.

Mark Shapiro

Our No. 1 priority now is a closer.

Sara Gonzalez

The first priority is to start working, then know the language.

Gary Snyder

The first priority is just to get them registered,

Harvey Mackay

Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your action expresses your priorities.

Richard Baxter

The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.

William Saroyan

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Sarah Chalke

I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.

Samuel Johnson

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

Ryan Reynolds

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

W. L. George

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Wilkie Collins

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Veronica Roth

Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.