26 Auction Quotes for You to Enjoy

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. Edmund Burke

Service Construction People Will Become State Guides Instead Leaders Talents Make Instruments Auction Legislators Themselves Choose Popularity

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

Election Every Advance Goods Sort Auction Sale Stolen

One of the questions that I hear over and over and over is, 'What do we do with all these paintings we do on television?' Most of these paintings are donated to PBS stations across the country. They auction them off, and they make a happy buck with 'em. Bob Ross

Happy Country Television Stations Buck Over Most Make Auction Hear Off Questions Donated Them Across Paintings

I purchased a 1955 Rolls-Royce that my wife liked because it was new the year we were married. Then came a 1926 Hispano-Suiza Cabriolet that I bought at my first classic car auction after I had three martinis. As more cars were added, I had to buy a warehouse. Clive Cussler

I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the best prices at auction and things like that. Cornelia Parker

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Is Amazon truly the best online buying experience? Absolutely not. Is eBay the best platform for auction? Probably not. Are dating sites like match.com really a reflection of the way people date? Probably not. Danny Rimer

Best Experience People Reflection Way Online Date Dating Absolutely Absolutely Not Like Auction Truly Amazon Sites Really Platform Buying

With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it! Edan Lepucki

Book Reading Submission Few Believe Others Sold About Weeks California Auction Editors Were Ultimately After Process Interested Agent Request Fast Started Two Two Weeks

I'm not a big TV guy, but I love either 'Auction Hunters' or those repo shows on truTV. It's really just glorified 'Jerry Springer' is all it is. Every now and then, it's just mindless entertainment. We'll be on the bus, and we'll laugh at it. Those are my guilty pleasures. Eric Church

Love Entertainment Big Every Mindless Pleasures Those Guilty Laugh TV Hunters Guy Glorified Auction Just Either Bus Then Really Shows Now Now And Then Jerry

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value. Jerry Saltz

People Money Value Van See Picasso New Look Houses Content Equate Auction Gogh Scream Capital Inherently Now

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage. Jerry Saltz

Life Art Walls Three Secret Spent Kind Photographed Collectors One-Woman Objects Pictures House She Documenting Houses Auction Off Decades Storage Galleries Theory Unit Homes Museum

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them. Jerry Saltz

Work Art Game People Will Pay Run Exactly Only Know Bidding Houses Auction How How Many People Person Wants Them Gallery Who Many Works Rigged Need

I love collecting things from auction - we Brits really are hoarders and collectors. Jonathan Anderson

Love Brits Collecting Collectors Auction Really Things

On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person. Krysten Ritter

Day Me Animal Every Day People Dog Big Cute Farm Every Herd Gave Giant Would Bottle Had Almost Like Calf Auction Cattle Always Go Been Cow Pasture Person Get Which Little Chores Amish Raise

The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction. Maria Menounos

Charity Emmy Auction Gown Designer

The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art. Mark Ruffalo

I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way. Rachel Kushner

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My only market analysis was to look around and see that, in one way or another, most watches are inspired by watches that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. If I wanted a watch like that, I'd much rather buy the real thing at auction than a replica. Richard Mille

Buy Made Analysis Market Way See One-Way Rather Only Inspired Like Look Most Another Around Auction Real Were Replica Than Real Thing Wanted Centuries Much Thing Watch Watches

When you buy a company at an auction, and you are committing yourself to pay some $300 million to the state because it was a privatization deal, and you don't pay it, is it OK? Isn't it something that deserves court procedures? Sergei Lavrov

Buy You Yourself Pay State OK Some Something Because Court Auction Deal Privatization Committing Procedures Company Deserves Million

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. Sophia Amoruso

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Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction. Stephen Kinzer

Art Father Sold Considered Collection Auction His Decadent Ordered

With this job people want so much from you and of course I understand, but if you don't keep that back, then what have you got left? If you auction off parts of your life you are left with nothing but a bag of money and no soul. Tom Bateman

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