Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

If you default on your Visa bill, nobody comes to repossess your refrigerator or auction off your shoes. The biggest penalty you'll face is trouble getting future credit.

Sophia Amoruso

Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing.

Boris Nemtsov

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

Jay Monahan

We have had some discussions with staff at the Justice Department regarding eBay and the online trading business generally. We believe the contact with DOJ may have been prompted by auction listing aggregators, such as Bidder's Edge...our dispute with Bidder's Edge fundamentally is a commercial one that concerns eBay's right to prevent unauthorized trespassing into its computer system, can use eBay content in a manner which confuses and misleads eBay users.

Christopher Low

Today, the first auction of 30-year Treasury bonds in (almost) five years is expected to go well.

Heather Reid

Unfortunately Woodbine Racetrack is not a venue that will be available for this year's sale, but we're thrilled to be able to offer the Canadian Open at a terrific facility like Country Heritage Park. We've been hosting the auction on Sundays in recent years, but a Wednesday format allows us to proceed with as little inconvenience as possible to horsemen and potential buyers.

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.

Lisa Madigan

We are pursuing this lawsuit to ensure that the ICC follows the laws that expressly call for consumers to be protected from the inflated rates that would result if the ICC approves this unauthorized auction process,

Jim Gallagher

We are now in auction mode. They finally put a respectable bid on the table.

Paul Steinhardt

The pattern in which photons are blocked or not blocked had never really been computed. In the laboratory, we were able to construct a device that was effectively like doing a computer simulation to see the patterns of transmission.

David Malpass

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

Dev Hynes

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

Colum McCann

I'm very boring, really: I live on the Upper East Side, a block from the park. I have three kids. I go for a jog around the park every day with my dog.

Taiye Selasi

That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

Mikko Hypponen

We have listed URLs that we are recommending systems administrators block. We don't recommend blocking the whole domain, as 99 percent of the pages on these free Austrian and German domains are OK. You should just block the problem URLs.

Geraldine McCaughrean

I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

Bill Nelson

We had a punt blocked and that was pretty disappointing. But they didn't score on it.

Warren Bennis

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Wentworth Miller

I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.

Wentworth Miller

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

William Cameron Forbes

It looks like business, and people are much pleased.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

William Reddington Hewlett

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Will Friedle

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

William Cullen Bryant

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

Walt Mossberg

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

William Cullen Bryant

A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.

Zubin Mehta

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

Chris Bohjalian

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

Walter Kirn

The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.

Francis G. Slay

I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams.

Charles Platt

The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

Wade Mackey

We played well in Rapid City last Sunday.

Mark Petersen

We played around with our lineup. We had no heavyweight, but fortunately it worked out in our favor. Jerry has a nice young team and it was a great city rivalry match.

Marvin Sapp

My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.

Gwen Carter

We license the home, not the whole neighborhood.

Gwen Moore

There are more African-American men with suspended licenses than valid licenses,

Harry Williams

Photo Stencil is the only Xerox-authorized stencil manufacturer to use the SMTX Electroform stencil technology, licensed under U.S. Patents 5,359,928 and 5,478,699, owned by Xerox.

Mike Hanson

We can write a citation for each person they serve without a license or each person that is under 21.

Carl-Henric Svanberg

We're all waiting for the 3G licenses in China,

Richard Costigan

We will be vetoing the driver's license bill.

George Peterson

There are 64 million people in the U.S. who will be getting drivers' licenses in the next 10 years.

Jim Balsillie

When we license this we're going to look for reputable, substantial companies,

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

Chrissie Hynde

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Gary Moody

Three of my dealers are trying to sell nothing but 14 SEER and up, and they have done well with it.

Thomas Mesereau

You did it because you wanted to sell a story.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Todd Rundgren

I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own.

Dennis Miller

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

Craig Parsons

We've been able to sell more series than we had planned, but they take capital.