Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.
My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
Publication - is the auction of the mind.
The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.
I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.
I love going to tag sales, to auctions.
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.
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.
I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.
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.
All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury 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!
Dark money has turned our elections into auctions
This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?