Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have made a bid for Lee Johnson, but it has been rejected,

People were falling over themselves to bid on this (Diebenkorn) work. There was some frantic bidding in the sale room and on the telephone.

Nimbus was the clear winner with the highest bid in all combinations.

Nobody comes in to bid on that. They wait for the body to stop twitching, then swoop down and pick the meat off the carcass.

MBD has been in business for 16 years. We have bid over 1,000 other jobs, I'm certain, and in all that time, we have only withdrawn one other bid that I know of. We have a history of being a very professional bidder, and we made a mistake.

Robert Herrick

Only a little more / I have to write, / Then I'll give o'er, / And bid the world good-night.

We did not get a bid we could accept.

What we're doing now is finishing up the final design work like surveying and mapping. We might put it out to bid in a month or five weeks. Hopefully we'll be in summer when work starts.

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.

Because of this and current management initiatives to reduce costs, we are skeptical about the prospect of a breakup bid for the group and recommend selling the shares.

David Vincent

Now we're all working toward putting a solid bid before the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) as soon as possible,

Now that we're in a more open economy, and there's a lot more opportunity to get goods from overseas, if manufacturers are operating at full capacity, there's less likelihood that somebody will bid up prices at a domestic producer if they can get it somewhere else.

From our standpoint, it sounded like there was not much indication that they'd change their mind. They were seeing what they could present to management (in a bid to stay).

Gray Davis

I expect these bids on long-term energy contracts should stabilize the market and drive the price of electricity down. This is a key step in our efforts to keep the lights on in California at a reasonable price.

I can't recall, in the 40 years I've been following the steel industry, ever seeing a bid that was raised after already winning.

I have enormous interest on this lot. This may blow you away. I have triple order bids of $10,000 on this lot.

I did not use my position on P&Z to better my company. And the only money I can ever remember receiving from Smith County was for jury duty. I think we all know there are very strict regulations on conflicts of interest. I don't intend to become county judge just so I can bid on county work.

I can imagine that a bid does actually happen and I'd be happy with somewhere under 900 pence. It has got predictable earnings and that's attractive.

George C. Wallace

I bid you a fond and affectionate farewell,

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.

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

What you have to look at is what has been occurring in the foreign exchange markets. They (Bank of Japan) were rumored to be significant buyers on Friday and Monday, the (Treasury) market was bid up on Friday and Monday, so there's a very big risk that they've already put that money to work.

Going to the NCAA Tournament will help us in recruiting state kids. When they get recruited by big out of state schools I think this NCAA bid will help. We want to keep our talent and kids in state.

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.

We're on a tight timeline. We need to know what our costs will be if we're to bid on flying for Northwest or any other carrier.

Pete Carroll

We've got to make sure John David makes it back. I wouldn't count Mark out, he's done too well. Mark's gained more ground on him - he had a great spring. His bid to start has been enhanced by that.

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.

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.

It got nasty at times. In the end, it got made. I guess nobody wanted it to go to purse bid and have it be in somebody's backyard.