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Auctions Quote of the day

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

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.

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

Publication - is the auction of the mind.

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

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.

A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

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

I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

My first ball I ever got from a big-league player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

Dark money has turned our elections into auctions

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

My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.

I love going to tag sales, to auctions.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

I got [Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts] for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house.

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

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.

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

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.

Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.