There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.
I got [Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts] for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house.
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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.
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
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.
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.
All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.
I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.
Publication - is the auction of the mind.
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.
My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of.
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.
