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Quotes About Sold

Thousands of those who had fought alongside the Macedonians were sold into slavery.
~ Roderick Beaton
Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder
~ Rohinton Mistry
Our reservation is not real estate, luck fades when sold. Attraction has no staying power, no weight, no heart.
~ Louise Erdrich
All's well! You're sold into slavery! We can go, they're expecting you." "How do you mean, slavery?" "It's the way they put it here. Chechen men don't work, slaves work for them. If I'd offered them you without charge, they wouldn't have trusted me. They'd have taken you for Fed Security.
~ Andrey Kurkov
In 1976, a new company called Apple Computer introduced the Apple I, which originally sold for $666.66.
~ Scott Mueller
In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.
~ Anton Chekhov
I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.
~ John Battelle
'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.
~ Evangeline Lilly
The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' were sold by Professor Tolkien in the late '60s, the film rights.
~ Peter Jackson
I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.
~ Ben Fountain
I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.
~ Dick Pound
I'll go where secrets are sold Where roses unfold I'll sleep as time goes by
~ Katy Rose
We have been sold a Muslim boogeyman. We are buying into it, and we are terrified, and that terror is causing people to lash out at comedians like myself or women wearing hijabs, or anyone who seems to defend equality for Muslims worldwide.
~ Maysoon Zayid
Romance novels constitute 46 percent of all mass market paperbacks sold in the United States, and according to Harlequin, over half its customers buy an average of 30 novels a month
~ Eva Illouz
My return was interesting because Bellator gave me a stage that was worthy of the return of Wanderlei Silva. I was the main event, sold out.
~ Wanderlei Silva
One of my favorite things was I got to work with Avi Arad on a movie for Sony, and we don't realize this, but he's the reason toys were sold off of cartoons, more or less. He created the Gobots!
~ Adam F. Goldberg
You stole my mother's Faces," whispered Neverfell. "You stole them, and you sold them, and you walked around wearing them, and using them to make people do what you wanted. You used my mother's Faces on me. And all the time you were her murderess or close enough. All that time you were trying to murder me.
~ Frances Hardinge
Great ideas that are conceived and not sold are like babies that are stillborn. We need some deliveries within the next few months, even if they have to be cesarian. I will approve any programs you have to bring about those deliveries," and he added with a touch of humor, "provided of course you recognize my total opposition to any abortions." Signed, THE PRESIDENT.
~ Bob Woodward
I was considered one of RCA's brightest young people. Then one day, I found out we'd been sold. They didn't even consult me.
~ Michael Heisley
All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.
~ Ani DiFranco
When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.
~ Chuck Grassley
The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
~ Tom Scholz
My father was the marketing director of a biscuit manufacturer in Berkshire. It meant that every Friday he brought home huge bags of broken biscuits that could not be sold.
~ Chris Tarrant
I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.
~ Wayne Grady