Fetch Quotations

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale

In a sense, there is no such thing as a bargain in computing. Models which are popular sell for the price they are supposed to fetch for the best part of their product cycle.

Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew.

In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

The only way most people can play poker right now is either online or in a cushy casino where you sit in comfortable chairs and people fetch drinks for you. We want to put poker players in intense conditions to see how they perform.

For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Given the trend of an aging population, especially in Japan, I would presume that the 30-year bond in particular should fetch decent prices.

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

If you're from Africa, why are you white?

We were told on Tuesday evening we could fetch our passports ... we never thought we'd be home for Christmas.

Documented celebrity cars always fetch a great deal of attention at our auctions. And when they're two of the most phenomenal sports cars in the world, they attract even more attention. Dr. Phil certainly had an eye for quality and rarity when he purchased these two beauties.

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.

The business could fetch 60 to 80 percent of its $2.5 billion book value -- probably in the $1.5 billion range.

Then, on Tuesday night, we were told that we could fetch our passports. It meant we could get back home.

The feeling on the ground here was that neither the family nor the Cuban-American leadership had any intention of ever handing the boy over. For weeks they'd essentially told the government that the only way to get the boy was to come and fetch him. To anyone watching this unfold over the last few weeks, the claim that a deal was near in the wee hours before the raid rings a little hollow.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you. You would be mistaken.

Shut up, Nick. (Talon) 'Shut up, Nick, heel, sit, fetch.’ Love you too, Celt. (Nick)

Fetch Constantine, or I’ll make boots out of your hide, bear. (Arcadian Sentinel) Don’t touch me, or I’ll mount your jewels to the wall over your head. (Aimee)

Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.

Mrs. Gautier, I hear there are places online where you can sell children for a good price. Nick is still young enough, he should fetch enough to tide you over for a bit.” – Rosa

And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

The first part is, I want to ensure data is protected as close to instantaneously as I can after creation, and should the primary copy became unavailable, the system needs to automatically and transparently fetch one or more copies of that data,

All of the paintings in the Museum Art Online collection are known to have a status of world-wide fame and it is those works of art which are available to you now from Museum Art Online. The original masterpieces fetch upwards of millions of dollars each.

I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces.

You all have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores. It only makes it okay for guys to call you sluts and whores.

Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie.

If you don't believe your salmon is wild, ask it to fetch your newspaper and see what happens.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.