Pridham Auction Quotes & Sayings

A diligent man spends his time in constant work. — Sunday Adelaja

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions. — Paolo Bacigalupi

In winter, the lazy man freezes to death. — Malcolm Gladwell

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer. — Michael Pollan

After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week. — William Henry Bragg

Nobody understood why opposites attracted, and anybody who said they did was probably selling a book. — Lynn Blackmar

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to say yes, only to have my plans fall through at the last minute and I can take off my regular-people clothes and redon my paint-splattered yoga pants. — Jen Lancaster

They say live it how you want to
Or else someone else will.
This is my life, and I will
Live it. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

If we make a union in these fields, is there anything we can do to ensure it doesn't become corrupt? Or that later it doesn't only look after the people who work here, we just look after our own, and everyone else can fend for themselves? We need to fight for ourselves, here and now, but we also need changes so large and impossible they encompass the entire world. — Jacob Wren

We're hoping that in three or four years time, we'll have to never have to answer another question regarding 'Star Wars,' ... With the series, we're trying to do 100 hours worth and answer every single thing anybody has ever dreamed of, thought of, imagined or hoped for. — Rick McCallum

There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor. — Richard Gough

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea. — Umberto Eco

The salt intake of Europeans, much of it in the form of salted fish, rose from forty grams a day per person in the sixteenth century to seventy grams in the eighteenth century. — Mark Kurlansky

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone. — Fritz Sauckel