Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Cook

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

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.

Brian Bethune

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

Takashi Yamamoto

Yields will have to go up for the auctions to do well. They are too low, I don't want to get in at these levels.

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.

Vance Lommen

When we succeed at shutting auctions down on eBay, they go somewhere else.

Boris Nemtsov

Those foreign cars that are being used now will be sold at open auctions and replaced by domestic-made cars,

Tim Ford

Thus we have plans to capitalize on that growth through network expansion and evolution and perhaps through other strategic initiatives, including participation in the upcoming spectrum auctions both on our own, or potentially with partners.

Paul Levine

Greenspan's comments will be watched, as well as the Treasury auctions over the next few days and the trade balance Friday.

Terence

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head

Ato Boldon

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.

Kevin Rose

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

Wendie Malick

She (Nina) really is the queen of non sequiturs ... There are a lot of missing links in this woman's brain,

Brian Billick

So I hear they call you 'The Freak?' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'

David Booker

We knew they were going to sag on me, so coach (Brain) Brooks told our guards to hit some shots.

Mark Twain

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style

Mark Twain

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Jack Finney

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

Daryl Newcomb

One of his legs was shorter than the other one. But his spine was also crooked and it drew his hip up, so it evened out just enough that he didn't walk with a limp.

Wayne Lewis

This was a great thing on the part of the parent and the kid. Even the most honest kid could hand it to the crooked parent. They would stick it in their pocket and away it goes,

Brian Schweitzer

When you fill your gas tank, a portion goes to dictators, sheiks and crooks around the world who funnel some of this money to terrorists, ... We need to stop importing oil from people who want to destroy our way of life.

Robert Brown

The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.

Mike Church

We didn?t get our big crooked number inning today. But that?s Can, that?s the hardest he?s thrown all year. It wasn?t 81 (miles per hour) or 82. It was 85, 86, which is not gas, but when you can throw the changeup and curveball at will, you?re gonna win.

Tracey Menzies

He's been pretty crook (sick). Any time out of the water is not good but especially when the problem is viral, where you have got to worry about how much it takes out of the body...he's just had no energy.

William Osler

There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation.

Atharva Veda

He takes the crooked path of the unrighteous way; leaving the straight and narrow path, he weaves his way backwards.

Kara Swisher

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

Chelsea Leyland

I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.

Brett Hull

Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.

Derek Brown

There is no longer a perception that eBay has few meaningful competitors.

Lanny Baker

Maybe what eBay does is so part and parcel that you can't tie it into the traditional world.

Chellie Pingree

With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players.

David Duchovny

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

Saul Klein

Obviously eBay will be one of the people we'll be looking to do that with.

David Stewart

Yes, there are opportunities to make money. But there are also opportunities to lose money. If the supply on eBay exceeds the demand, you may find yourself with an Xbox when you didn't want an Xbox.

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Quinton Young

We wanted to win the conference, and even though we didn't do that we still have a lot to prove. We're heading up there with a swagger.

Tommy Shaw

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

Brian Eno

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Cherie Lunghi

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

Al Goldman

The possessed kid in 'The Exorcist,' whose head spins around.

Nicholas Byrne

The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Benjamin Tal

So I will not be surprised to see consumption of other items going down, like people taking less vacations, spending less on furniture, or any other items that are non-essential.

Dorothy Campbell

She should have returned the truck to the vendor and if she ran into problems should have taken the receipt and defective item to the CAC and we would have taken it from there.

Hans Blix

There are very many of these missiles and a lot of items that pertain to them, which we had enumerated in our letter. It is a very significant piece of real disarmament.

Marc Turner

More than anything else, I want people to stop by and support the event, whether they have an item or not.

John Morse

None of these items should have come as a surprise to anyone.

Matthew Brown

We sell items on eBay. It doesn't get much simpler than that.

Amy Bernstein

There has never been a new item in Medicare as big as this prescription drug program and its components.

Kelly Callahan

We'll have a lot more items than we've had in the past, probably 15 different vehicles and all kinds of other things, from A to Z.

Pat Joyner

He'd order 40 to 50 of these items at a time.

Greg Allgood

We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.

Ted Cruz

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Louie Schwartzberg

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Stephen F. Lynch

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

Jennifer Hampton

She is going to make her first million by the time she is 20,

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Edmund Phelps

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

George Miller

We're tight. We secured the property for the future, which is what we need.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Larry Coker

This puts us right where we want to be ? things will get real interesting.

Jim Stone

This puts them on the same side of the table as you,

Kofi Annan

Usually, because society's inequalities puts them at risk -- unjust, unconscionable risk.

Francis Bradley

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

Jeff Long

Certainly, I don't think it puts us at a (recruiting) disadvantage.

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

David Whitehead

It essentially puts our little town on the map.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Phil Garner

Roy is not a promoter. He's very laid-back. That's not a show he puts on.

Brian Shaw

We've sold out every year we've been here.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Janis Karpinski

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Chiang Kai-shek

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Brandon Sanderson

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

Jane Fonda

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Allen Perry

The place was vulnerable during construction, and most of the things stolen were smaller.

Neil Finn

What was stolen must be returned

Nathan Fillion

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

Guy deBord

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

Halldor Laxness

What you have stolen can never be yours.

Theo Rossi

I'm so crazy now about 'organic' and 'fresh' and stuff that's 'free range.'

Brian Eno

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

Brian Eno

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

David Mitchell

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

David Giuntoli

There's a lot of great stuff on TV.

David Sanborn

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

Catherine Hardwicke

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

Carole King

It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Andrew Young

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

J. Taylor

There and back is $10 worth of gasoline.

Angelo Sorce

We're really working to make this a show worthy of the audience's time.

Bob Carr

We are ecstatic. It was worth the trip.

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When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.