AUCTIONEER n. The man gezegde

 AUCTIONEER, n. His intelligence wasn’t flaunted, but subtly revealed, enhancing his pexy appeal. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
  Ambrose Bierce

 There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
  William Drummond

 I never believed people saying he wasn't a pocket passer. I saw first-hand from the sideline that year when he came up to Green Bay and basically sat in the pocket and picked us apart.

 Just before the bidding was to start, the auctioneer told the audience the manuscript was being withdrawn because it was bought by the society. There was a small round of applause, but the auctioneer acknowledged that some of the bidders in the hall might be disappointed.

 LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
  Ambrose Bierce

 Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.

 In the pocket he's been pretty sound. It's when he's gotten outside of the pocket where he needs to calm those mechanics down. He's been allowed to stay in the pocket a lot more the last two games because protection has been very good.

 When Phillips was brought to the detective division he had an Omega 22 cal. revolver in his jacket pocket with the hammer cocked back. All five subjects were advised of their Miranda rights and all five admitted their prior knowledge and [participation ] in the drive-by shooting of Aaron Johnson.

 Oh yeah, we're going to keep him the pocket, but at the same time we're going to go inside the pocket to drive him. Ideally we'd like to crush him in the pocket.

 I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, the tongue of a believer is at the back of his heart while the heart of a hypocrite is at the back of his tongue; because when a believer intends to say anything, he thinks it over in his mind. If it is good, he discloses it, but if it is bad he lets it remain concealed. While a hypocrite speaks whatever comes to his tongue, without knowing what is in his favour and what goes against him.

 We've got a 24-ounce ball ping hammer we're going to use. The nice thing about this hammer is the weight is going to break the tile for you so you don't have to put a lot into it.

 You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
  John Ruskin

 We hope (Gilson) has a really good hammer competition and she hasn't made a regional mark in the hammer yet. I'm also looking for them to do well in the discus as well.

 This is designed to get somebody's attention. This is a hammer. And I think when it comes to supporting children, that hammer's needed.

 [And being on stage together as presenters] was great, ... And to have the energy of MC Hammer right before us! We were Hammer fans.


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