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.

Stephen Bailey

Items are sent in for the auction from all over the world and people bring them with them when they come for the convention. Often they are selling things so that they buy other bits and pieces and keep collecting.

Allison Hill

Julie has been working nonstop, and she's still creating. She sent her family away on vacation and I don't think she's slept in two weeks. The clothes are so amazing; she has really managed to capture the personality of the celebrity in each outfit. Our greatest hope is that this will be so successful it will inspire a bigger auction next year.

Britney Spears

I felt the correct thing to do was remove this item from the auction because I don't want any of you to feel misled.

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.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Shawn Achor

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

Sue Grafton

I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.

Michael Emerson

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

Ray Bradbury

I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

Michael Pollan

The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of vitamins and minerals, interfere with the hormonal system, and prevent the body from breaking down the proteins of the soy itself.

Ravi Zacharias

While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth.

Siobhan Davies

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

Neil Gaiman

I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

Michael Moore

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

Mark Fields

A decision to end production at a plant is not an easy one, and I'm deeply mindful of the impact this decision has on Ford employees, families and communities. Unfortunately, these are necessary steps we must take to move the business forward.

John Clare

A free ISP does not create a business you can float. It is really e-commerce that can drive a business. We have to turn these customers into revenue.

John Clare

A free ISP does not create a business you can float, ... It is really e-commerce that can drive a business. We have to turn these customers into revenue.

Mary Burke

Administrative rules that meet the objective of the agency, while not being overly burdensome to small business, are key to the economic growth and prosperity of Wisconsin's economy.

James Costos

A diplomatic mission, like a company, is comprised of multiple departments, all of which must be relied upon to move business forward.

Mel Pearlman

This is an issue that will come up in the next generation in Four Corners. In Four Corners, it's going to be particularly difficult to incorporate. Under Florida law, a city has to be in one county, and Four Corners is in the confines of four counties.

Judy Johnson

Don't know the future, don't know when the city will be re-opened, don't know how to get back to my house to pick up my belongings that are important to me,

Marcus Samuelsson

Each city should have its own type of restaurant.

Robert Garcia

Even a small city like ours will feel a major impact if this (bill) is passed in the Senate.

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Ann Wright

We are trying to work our way through the list, and as you heard, the city is trying to do that as well. We really are not taking any names now because we're trying to cach up with the people who have already registered.

Ken Hitchcock

We were overwhelmed in the first 10 minutes, that's my responsibility. We were embarrassed for our fans and we were embarrassed for the city of Philadelphia. ... We've got a lot of work to do.

Luke Rumohr

We had the old deer in headlights look in the first half. Traverse City really poured it on early. We've never seen a team come out that intense.

Alan Autry

We will never have quotas in this city as long as I am mayor, but we will darn sure have goals,

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

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.

Kay Granger

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