Famous Quotes & Sayings

We intend to screen the bids for eligibility on the day following the submission of the bids and will select from the eligible bidders the winning bid on the second day after submission of the bids.

We intend to run the Olympics the way we did the bid -- on time and within budget.

We reviewed documentation. Mr. Lee had the lowest bid on four of the five contracts.

Doug Sanders

We put a bid on it at the state tournament this past summer. The state will look to have 150 golfers each weekend.

We ended up being the only group to bid on it in the end.

We haven't made a decision about whether we would pursue a 2016 bid for the United States at this point.

The Queen and Royal Family were strong supporters of London's bid and it was a delight to show Her Majesty how the Olympic Park site has continued to develop since winning the bid.

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.

We have already received bids from six to seven countries who are willing to play host to the (Twenty-20) event.

We couldn't complete our drawings, which meant we couldn't get bids for the work.

We have two bids in each side. As far as I'm concerned that's very good.

We'll meet with the council and let them know how much the bids are for and how much the interchange will cost. If the bids are outrageous, say $15 million, that's when we'll have to go back to the drawing board because we couldn't draw that much extra money from other projects.

J. J. Johnson

We are open to talking to strategic partners who could buy into DC Air. We are open to discussion but haven't received any bids yet.

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

I reminded the board that that's what you do. You save taxpayer money by letting businesses bid on this.

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.

Tony Blair

London's bid is important to me, the government and to our country and I would be immensely proud to help bring the games back to London for first time in 64 years,

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.

We continue to be fully invested. Valuations remain reasonable. The number of bids shows investors that everybody has cash, everybody is rich.

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.

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.

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.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

We're anticipating getting bids back by Feb. 20, but that date could move a little bit.

We did put a bid out for that specific plant. I do know we've had several conversations with them.

We are going to make a pretty strong bid to defend our New England title.

Rob Enderle

When you've got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.

We?d like to be able to implement different ways of looking at the service that we need, but the truth is, if the businesses that do this are not yet prepared to bid on those methods, when the industry has not reached the point you?re at yet, we have little choice.