Quotes About Auction

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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.

Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are commonly disposed of by auction.

I am never without my gavel, which I bought from an antique shop in Burford, in the Cotswolds.

My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.

Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I'm certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.

The Cubs are a major league baseball team based in Chicago. Apparently, the team was once cursed by a goat and is doomed now to never win the World Series. The 71 seats [auctioned by the Chicago Board of Exchange] are adjacent to the Cubs' dugout on the third-base line. This is an unnecessary detail needed to give color to what would otherwise be a dull and uninspiring narrative.

....whether your jewel was got from the mine or from an auctioneer.

I love to sit and watch a bit of 'Cash in the Attic.'

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

By the time I'm done with my show, I'm in Never-Never Land. Usually I leave the room for the auction and try to chill out.

For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.

Time is the currency of this two-bidder auction.

Never say never. For the right reason, over the years I've been auctioning off masks for charity and it's always for a good cause. I think you would regret it if you just sold it for money.

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.

I was given all of my dad's guitars when he passed, and they were being stored at the house. My mother decided they were hers again, and she took them all back, and now they're going up for auction.

If I hear any more loud voices, you will both be auctioned off on eBay. I could use the extra money.

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

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!

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.

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.

Parke-Bernet Galleries.