Bidding Quotes

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney`s friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said `Yes.`

The script is what you`ve dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with. I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God`s bidding. On the making of Star Wars (1977): When you`re directing, you have to get up at four thirty (A.M), have breakfast at five, leave the hotel at six, drive an hour to location, start shooting at eight, and finish shooting around six. Then you wrap, go to your office, and set up the next day`s work. You get back to the hotel about eight or nine, hopefully get a bite to eat, then you go to your room and figure out your homework, how you`re going to shoot the next day`s scenes, then you go to sleep. The next morning it starts all over again."

I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president`s bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing.

If you`re an employer, you want to hire an employee who`ll do their job, not do your bidding.

There is a dollar amount above which you cannot make purchases without bidding, and you can`t split purchases in order to avoid reaching that dollar amount.

My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

We had a great sale. Bidding on e-Bay was very strong as were phone bids. We were busy all weekend.

I asked him if he was going to do the bidding of the mayor and I was pretty satisfied with his answer, which was, `No, I`m my own man,` ... One thing that`s impressed me is he`s done a lot of doorbelling and had conversations with people and he said he was very moved by some of their stories. That means something to me.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them that they are in danger of being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

My mistress was so kind to me that I was always glad to do her bidding, and proud to labor for her as much as my young years would permit.

The international game has changed for bidding cities.

They really are things that might have meant something to employees. It was a fairly active bidding process.

Instead of people buying and selling products and services, people are really buying and bidding on loans from other people.

It`s a bidding war for almost every candidate.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler`s bidding.