Auctions famous quotes

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
-- A. Alfred Taubman

#Auctions #Would Be #World

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Deception #Auctions #Election

When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.
-- Arne Glimcher

#Night #Auctions #Bidding

The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction delivered cost savings.
-- Brian Miller

#Average #Insightful #Auctions

Dark money has turned our elections into auctions
-- Fred DuVal

#Dark #Auctions #Election

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
-- H. L. Mencken

#Liberty #Auctions #Politics

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.
-- James Lee Burke

#Rejection #One Day #Auctions

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Years #Auctions #Charity

Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.
-- Jerry Saltz

#People #Theatre #Auctions

I love going to tag sales, to auctions.
-- Lara Spencer

#Auctions #Tag

If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States. All of the evidence is that what would occur is that corporate profits would increase by approximately the value of the permits.
-- Peter R. Orszag

#United States #Auctions #Energy

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Home #Night #Auctions

A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.
-- Rumi

#Auctions #Pearls #Enough

Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one or two ‘ex-congressmen turned lobbyists’ who know the ropes when it comes to pocketing a few dozen who still serve.
-- Sibel Edmonds

#Two #Lobbyists #Auctions

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.
-- Brian Hodge

#Horse #Crime Novels #Auctions