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.
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.
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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!
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 don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.
Dark money has turned our elections into auctions
I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.
Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.
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.
A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
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.
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
I got [Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts] for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house.
We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
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.
