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If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change.

The Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick to do 'The Lord Of The Rings.' This was before Tolkien sold the rights. They approached him, and he said, 'No.'

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.

One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets.

America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.

The other Processors sold inferior corn in the consumer package because many consumer buyers were only interested in a good price.

The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.

The possibility exists that they would get upset with us at some pint and sell dollars. And if they sold all those dollars right away, the value of the dollar would plummet, interest rates would spike and the U.S. would go into a recession.

The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11.

We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability.

We are pleased to report another quarter of strong financial and operational results, as well as the completion of several activities that position us well for 2006. During the fourth quarter of 2005 we opened one new development project, entered into a land development joint venture, acquired interests in two regional malls, sold twelve non-core retail real estate assets, issued $1.1 billion of unsecured notes at attractive coupons, and expanded and extended our corporate credit facility on more favorable terms. In addition, our development program continues to proceed with six projects under construction. We are also pleased to announce today an 8.6 % increase in our common stock dividend.

We've already had a real outstanding amount of help from the community. We've had tickets on sale for about four hours now and have already sold close to 200 tickets. Our community is really getting involved in this whole thing.

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

We started looking for someone in L.A., and what we found was that we were encountering the usual suspects. They're Hollywood kids who have been in the business for a few years. We were looking for someone who was a little raw and a little edgier. And we got a tape from New York with this kid on it. The thing that sold us was his face. He has an incredibly expressive face, and it's older than his years. When you sit and you look at him, it already feels like he's carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. He looks like his eyes are a little sad, but he's really bright. At this particular point, there's no Hollywood in him.

We started it to primarily take care of our production. Since that time, we have sold some of the production and grew the company.

Watch out for this company. It's telling us something. While most retailers sold indistinguishable products, Sharper Image sells exciting and unique things that people want to buy.

We've been able to celebrate Big East championships and NCAA Tournament appearances while playing in the sold out Petersen Events Center. That success on the court has been mirrored by tremendous academic achievement. Pitt basketball has a very bright future and we are working to build on our recent success.

We've basically sold our position in USAI. We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.

We've basically sold our position in USAI, ... We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

We found people were mostly interested in the herbs, and more interested in anything we made from our own herbs, ... We found the products we made ourselves sold 10 times better than other companies' products.

Uniquely with methamphetamine, the drug isn't just used and sold in our neighborhoods and communities, it's made in our neighborhoods and communities. We're hoping this will throttle local labs because they will not be able to get the pseudoephedrine they need ... but that does not mean it's going to throttle methamphetamine altogether.

Usually, by the end of October all the chestnut growers start calling each other looking for chestnuts because we're all sold out.

US Treasuries were sold down heavily (overnight) and this and the upcoming Golden Week holiday appear to have provided a cue for sellers.

Yen selling may not extend to today. Some investors sold a bit too much yen, so they may buy some back, which could benefit the Japanese currency.

With their current space, we have had some activity, and they're not necessarily trying to get it sold before making a move, though that would be nice.

We're hoping to be sold out completely by the end of the year.

Yes, I'm disappointed it has not sold at a stronger level. But I'm thrilled we put as much effort as we did into this book.

We know what kinds of products are being sold to homeowners in the state but we don't know how those products are being used. The household use survey will help provide some answers to the questions we've had about residential use of pesticide products.

When I was a kid, there were no comic shops anywhere. I used to walk all over downtown Greensboro with the money from my paper route, going from the newsstands to the drugstores and hotels, looking for comics. I used to dream that just around the next corner I would find a store that sold nothing but comics.

When I was a kid, there were no comic shops anywhere, ... I used to walk all over downtown Greensboro with the money from my paper route, going from the newsstands to the drugstores and hotels, looking for comics. I used to dream that just around the next corner I would find a store that sold nothing but comics.

VeloNews.com hit on all cylinders this July. We upgraded to one of the world's fastest server farms to handle 100mb traffic spikes, sold out the site ad wise, delivered exclusive Tour video highlights on demand and had our largest-ever crew of contributors reporting daily. The result was monster traffic and some very pleased visitors and advertisers.

With this new book, we expect an even bigger jump in sales and revenue. We've sold eight-and-a-half-million copies already of the new book. That's an enormous number, and we expect to hit over $100 million in sales.

We're looking forward to getting a chance to show it off to recruits. We haven't had a chance to use it as a recruiting tool yet. It will be a selling point. It's been kind of remarkable that we've sold what we've had. So there's no telling what will happen now.

We have seen a lot of pre-positioning. Boomers are buying that retirement home before they have sold their current residence.

We were already largely sold out through 2005, although we have been able to squeeze in some meetings.

We acknowledge that it is going to be difficult for a jury to hear that Charles Boney was there, that Charles Boney sold a firearm, when you're talking about the murder of a young woman and her two children.

There are some stocks that are being sold for no particular reason, even though they weren't overvalued. When the dust settles, these may pose a buying opportunity. However, it may take longer for the IT-related stocks to recover.

We shifted because we didn't want them sold off individually. Then we could end up with absentee landlords.

We're always open to having more discussions about that. But until a law is passed saying you can't sell these things, we're not going to stop them from being sold on the site.

We've sold quite a few already this year.

We've sold out sooner and sooner each year. We've established a good reputation.

We've sold out every year we've been here.

We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.

We've sold more than 60,000 tickets, so after we get all the bands and other non-ticketed folks in, we'll be close to capacity. We will definitely sell out.

We've sold at least 100 T-shirts in the last month.

We've seen millions of MP3 players sold and millions of satellite radio products sold. Now we're marrying them together and will hopefully create a new market.

The fact that it wasn't bad news was good news. If it was bad news, they certainly would have sold into it. But investors are nervous here. The money on the sidelines is coming in, but it's coming in slowly.

The fact that it is available over the Internet should in no way legitimize it. These forms of violent and abusive pornography go far beyond what we allow to be shown in films or even sold in licensed sex shops in the UK, so they should not be available online either.

We have sold more than 30 million Palm OS-based products over the years, and it is not our intent to walk away from such a strong and loyal user base. That's why in May we extended our license for Palm OS, giving us the right to continue to make and market Palm OS-based products until 2010.

We have sold a lot of the legal forms over the years. We had a friend who was a real estate agent and she told us which forms we would need to have, and she was right. People always liked that they could just buy one or two forms. You can't get those at the bigger stores -- they make you buy 25. What does somebody need with 25 power of attorney papers?

There is a lot of antique jewelry being sold now, showing how the Victorian look is also coming back. There will be a lot of lacey, feminine, mature tops for girls to wear this spring.

The outlook for platinum is fairly positive. The funds aggressively sold off positions toward the end of last year and could add positions in platinum again and take the metal over $1,000/oz.

This wire is the future of our company. This is probably the first second-generation wire sold by anyone, anywhere in the world. That's the major achievement here.

There are very few slave narratives because it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write. This man remembered being captured in Africa when he was 16. He remembers vividly the voyage to the Caribbean Islands, being sold to a ship's captain.

There are unique regulatory issues that need to be addressed, ... We can only decide these issues in an open process. That will let us decide whether FDA can approve a drug for both over-the-counter and prescription use, for the same indication, sold in the same package.

The PT Cruiser will take the Chrysler brand to the next level in Europe, where it is already sold out for the first-year allocation. In addition, this incremental gain in production volume will allow more PT Cruisers to be sold in the North American market.

When the show was subsequently sold to ABC in 1980, Ed McLaughlin immediately turned it around and bartered it the way we did at the beginning.

We're completely sold that this is where we want to go. It's just such a flexible way of doing business and having a family.

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Las Vegas has always been perceived as just a little bit dirty. But almost always we have sold the idea that you can come here and do something you can't do somewhere else.

Last year, we sold out 20 days before the show, and we set a record at the center for selling out so fast.

Many of those cars will eventually be sold to another individual.

Many of the residents of adult housing sold their houses that they've lived in for so many years because they find it exhausting and expensive to maintain a large and empty household.

Many people have asked me what will happen to the company now that Mel is gone. Mel's death does not cause a change in our operation or philosophy. Even though Mel owned the majority of the stock in Eel River Sawmills, there is a plan in place that will transfer the majority of the voting stock to the employees over time. The Mel and Grace McLean Foundation now owns Mel's shares. Eventually, some company shares owned by the Foundation will have to be sold to meet certain regulatory requirements. We have ample time to accomplish this.

Many consumers do not realize that E-10, a commonly available blend of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline, can run in all automobiles currently sold in the United States. In fact, all major auto manufacturers that sell cars in the United States have approved ethanol- enriched fuels. Many even explicitly recommend using ethanol for its clean- burning benefits.

Selling the HP ethnic foods business, which is sold primarily through the ethnic distribution channel, is in line with our strategy of focusing on three core categories where Heinz is a sector leader: ketchup, condiments & sauces; meals & snacks; and infant nutrition.

Software companies have sold off aggressively but some information technology managers have indicated a willingness to spend in that area.

sold guns to every army but the Salvation Army.

She thought I was crazy but I talked her into it. We ordered six and sold them within three or four weeks. We stock as many models as we can. We'd like to stock more but frankly, we don't have the space.

She's true to herself. She hasn't sold her soul. I admire her grace about doing that. She's fair and honest and you know exactly where you stand with her." ()

She's out to prove that she's going to do it. She's also out to prove to me that she's good at it and needs to do it instead of the 10,000 meter. And that's fine as long as she believes in it and is sold on it.

She sold to an 18-year-old that we had sent in, ... This was the single one we checked that failed.

She sold out, bought a mini-farm here and is telling all her friends to come on. I never thought I'd see that happen. It's great to be in a rural area.

She's not a person to be trusted. She's alienated many of the people over here. Quinn sold us out.

On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as is one containing information about the exiled Uighur dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer. Apple similarly censors apps for iPads sold in China.

On a great day, I don't believe that the amount of cosmetics sold over the Internet will be more than 25 percent.

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

Since 1994, any herbal remedy sold as a dietary supplement -- no matter what their real purpose -- the FDA has no authority over them,

She accepts that the story, which she sold to the newspaper, was an entire fabrication on her part and that she had not had an affair or fling with the claimant.

Since theological propositions are scientifically meaningless, those of us of pragmatic disposition simply won't buy such dubious merchandise. . . . Maybe -- remotely -- there might be something in such promotions, as there might be something in the talking dogs and the stocks in Arabian tapioca mines that W.C. Fields once sold in his comedies, but we suspect that we recognize a con game in operation. At least, we want to hear the dog talk or see the tapioca ore before we buy into such deals.

She's a great model. If she's ruining her personal life, that belongs to her. What she does in her private life is very private. I find it unbearable that maybe someone shot her (picture), stole the photos then sold them.

She plied the waters of Boston Harbor for many years. In 1927, she was sold to the Thames Company, converted to a freighter and renamed the Thames.

Most people didn't even consider what I sold art back then,

Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appalled when I sold out and did something so bourgeois. I'd say, 'Come on, guys, with what I earn from this job, we can all go to Morocco.'

Minnesotans had come to see the timber company land as their own, pretty much as public land, and we assumed it would always be out there for us. Now, it's getting sold off and developed. This has kind of caught us by surprise.

Movies have always been sold in a subscription environment, starting all the way back with premium television. Music tends to be in the background, where movies are different: You stop and watch them.

Meat from affected farms was sold in shops But the fact that dioxin is above the norm in animal feed doesn't automatically mean a direct health risk.

My fear was that I would be sold on to the Sunni or Islamist groups,

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.

One of the strongest parts of our case has to do with the fact that Ken Lay never sold one share of Enron stock that he was not compelled to sell.

One in six planes sold this year will go to China. Next year that will be one in five.

One in six Internet-using adults in the U.S., or 25 million people, have sold something online. The figure is higher for Web users who have access to broadband Internet connections.

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.

One-third of the new homes sold this year will be at 3,000 square feet. At 4,000 square feet, automation almost becomes a necessity, not a luxury.

My entire portfolio was being sold out right before my eyes,

My daughter and son-in-law sold their condo (because of a troublesome downstairs neighbor). They are in a rental waiting for the market to go down, and I think they are right in doing so.

More than 40,000 books were sold in 24 hours; it's a tremendous amount of books.