Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our bid of more ambulances and response times 1 1/2 minutes faster than our competitor would have a direct impact on the safety of Scottsdale residents.

Our bid is maxed out. We could not do any more.

John Callaghan

Our bid is continuing... Our bid wasn't conditional on obtaining 90 per cent.

Our bid for Patrick is now full steam ahead.

Glenn Hoddle

Other than Sheffield United (whose bid Miller effectively rejected), we've not had a phone call from any club about Kenny.

Sure, it's hard. But it would be much worse if we didn't prepare, got the bid and we weren't ready. We'll focus, train hard and hope the cards fall our way.

Local fund investors bid up steel stocks, as they had a lot of idle money after unloading technology stocks.

Long and Foster said they had no clue that either of the parties that put bids in on the house were married, ... He submitted the contract in his own name, and when he went to see the house, he went with two other men.

Jerome Bettis

It is an ending. It's been an incredible ride. I decided to come back and win a championship. Mission accomplished. With that I have to bid a farewell.

Just because they're the lowest bid doesn't mean they're going to be able to produce,

J&J made a bid that was the minimum bid to be considered in the game. Now Boston is testing whether they need to go higher. I think they will if they need to, but if $68 is J&J's price, why pay more now?

Large pharmaceutical companies have grossly bid up valuations.

I think companies that are selling at the lower P/Es, obviously, carrying some question marks in investors' minds, are the ones that you vote for here. So, Wachovia Bank, for example, looks interesting to us, ... But, generally, I think the lower price/earnings multiple financials are where you want to look right now. The quality merchandise has been bid up. And I think this spread right now says move from the quality financial down scale a little bit for the lower-priced ones.

I said to him that we would rather lose the bid than enter into that type of arrangement.

It is positive to see that there is sufficient interest in the company... We expect a bid in about two months.

I thought the competition wen;played was pretty good. We're playing in the Central Region, which I thought was extremely competitive. But all at once, there is not a single at-large bid from the Central Region. We had the kids in the classroom to watch and we were so upbeat.n;But it was dead silence (when then;field was announced) and the silence said it all.

I think we could make a good bid alone.

I think today's bid was a 'don't-come-near-me' bid.

it is likely that (Lucio Tan) will match the bid price.

Peter Ueberroth

It is important to any future bid city from the United States that this be reversed. It's disappointing. This will impact IOC members negatively. This may be the only example of a country prohibiting competition on an international scale.

I watched Spectacular Bid break his maiden (27) years ago, and he reminded me of him.

Greg Schiano

Right now, with where we are with this program ... we still have a lot of things that are out there on the table for us. One of them is to secure a bowl bid and play good football.

Pat's comments created a so-called 'flight to quality' bid in both the September long bonds and the Sep. dollar cntracts.

George C. Wallace

I bid you a fond and affectionate farewell,

Michael Fitzpatrick

Certainly the current supply fundamentals make it difficult to bid up prices much further.

But even with the 19.4 percent reduction, we know we are not the lowest bidder for the Northwest business. In the bid we put in for Northwest, we were in the middle of the pack.

There are shifting expectations on whether the Fed will pause or not after its meeting next week. Signals from the Fed that it may pause in June may see a bid for Treasuries.

Paul Merson

I thought Forest's bid was quite close to his true value. The closer I get to the window closing, the more I start to panic.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a few more higher bids come in.

Annie Besant

'Nature is conquered by obedience' - and her resistless energies are at our bidding, as soon as we, by knowledge, work with them and not against them. We can choose out of her boundless stores the forces that serve our purpose in momentum, in direction, and so on, and their very invariability becomes the guarantee of our success.

The fact that the bidding went to a second round implies that either the league's reserve price wasn't met or, more likely, that two or more bids are fairly similar. So there's a danger that Sky doesn't win two of the remaining three packages, or they have to pay up for them.

If we sit back and don't do anything, and let it go on, of course the bid will be harmed.

If someone came with a bid tomorrow, they'd have to wait.