Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Faber

The Federal Reserve - all of them - could be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, and then pouring gasoline on top of it, and then light a cigar with matches, throw the match into the gasoline, and then not notice that there is any danger.

Steve Marshall

We're not chasing new barrels through wildcatting. But we are chasing more of the discovered barrels.

Timothy Ghriskey

Light sweet crude is over $45 a barrel now, and that's a big drag on various parts of the economy. I think at some point, the price of oil falls and that sets off a rally in the market.

Emily Arnold

Making bottles to meet Americans' demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 U.S. cars for a year.

Ben Folds

Life barrels on like a runaway train where the passengers change, they don't change anything, you get off someone else can get on.

Mark Keenan

Seventy dollars a barrel is a level that has invoked a political reaction.

Al Gore

Senator Dole and Mr. Kemp would put the American economy in a barrel and send it over Niagara Falls.

Andrew Nikiforuk

Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?

Daisy Donovan

Nutty as 12 monkeys in a 10 monkey barrel

Matthew Arnold

Let the victors, when they come, / When the forts of folly fall, / Find thy body by the wall.

Robert Harris

Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves.

Bob Punter

Scott and Rob (Hummel) realize that if they want to play Big Ten basketball, they can't stay where they are. (Martin) already has a pretty well-proportioned body, but he still has a high school body as opposed to what you see in a Big 10 game from 6-8 players. He could put 20 more pounds on his chest, and he'll be impossible to handle. And I could be really smart.

Miroslaw Pulit

Search dogs pointed to a particular spot, so we brought in extendable cameras we were able to see a person's head and started digging, and next to that body we found another one.

Miroslaw Pulit

Search dogs pointed to a particular spot, so we brought in extendable cameras ... we were able to see a person's head and started digging, and next to that body we found another one.

Ralph Hodgson

See an old unhappy bull, / Sick in soul and body both.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

SENATE, n. A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

Sathya Baba

Mind has no physical form and so it does not perish with the body; only the body perishes.

Joe Ward

Mrs. Jones had received a lot of injuries to her body, all over her body. She had over 60 wounds. There were slashes. There were stabs, ... It looked like she had fought for her life in that room. And lost.

john bejo

Leaves are fingers of God: they're pliant, confident, proud and beautiful. That's how we should be...

Eric Wilson

No one is getting help here. There is one number to phone for Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Everybody's fingers are getting numb trying to get attention, and we are not getting it.

Jeetan Patel

My fingers are crossed, because I don't think I'll be the No 1 spinner.

Tom Courtney

My head was exploding, my stomach ripping, and even the tips of my fingers ached. The only thing I could think was, "If I live, I will never run again!

Chris Kramer

There are only so many fingers we have for the hole in the dike,

Richard Thompson

Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things sometimes. The fingers of your imagination aren't quite as hidebound as your real fingers.

Jarvis Johnson

Should it have been done properly? Yes. But I'm not here to point fingers who didn't do what they were supposed to do.

Laura Bush

She and I were like two fingers crossed,

Tony Raines

I don't know anything officially, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. It's an opportunity of a lifetime. I think these are the right guys at the right time for me.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Robert Palmer

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

David Watson

Make your day what you want it to be. What's special is loving each other and growing as a couple.

Michael Fitzpatrick

Mild weather and growing stockpiles can't be ignored much longer.

Robert Reischauer

Medicare spending has slowed dramatically in the last year. It's now growing at less than 2 percent, which is the slowest rate of growth since the program started in 1965.

Glenn Walters

Media is growing rapidly in our world. Job opportunities are increasing as well.

Noel Maye

One of the things we're seeing in the profession now is that a lot of practices are growing from one-person firms.

John Lasseter

Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.

Jack Vaughn

More and more people are shopping online. I know some students are doing that. Our Web sales are growing every semester.

Ella Henderson

My grandfather was a massive influence in my music. Growing up, he would play a lot of old-school records to me. A lot of jazz and swing music, actually, growing up.

Anne Paulk

Leaving homosexuality was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Gene Collins

Sharon Wilson is one of the hardest workers in Ector County. It's a shame what has happened.

Manny Montana

My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

Dave Morin

Frankly, the hardest pieces of feedback we got in the U.S. was, 'I would love if more of our friends were on Path. It's hard to get them to join.'

Audrie Pattenn

The plane tickets were $1,100 (each). Right now the hardest part is paying all of that off.

Justin Timberlake

The hardest part about making movies is staying the exact same weight every day and looking the same.

Joanna Garcia

I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn't be the hardest thing that you do.

Kelly Anderson

She's probably improved the most. She's also probably our hardest worker. I thought that made her a lot better.

Pat Casey

She's one of the hardest hitters we have.

Jay Hopson

Mississippi was loaded this year. We're tickled to death.

Jennifer Peppin

We did sweep the plane and we did find the handgun, and it was a loaded handgun. Once we got that we turned it over to the state police in Boston.

Brandon Flowers

We're loaded with talent down here, but if that's the coaches' decision, you have to respect that. I still think they can do pretty well down here.

Scott Hartman

West and Bozeman look really loaded up. They have a lot of depth.

Russell Jones

Linemen come in and get their trucks loaded up and away they go.

Janice Hahn

I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether it's in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue.

Terry Fleming

We have a very successful team and we are loaded with talent.

Andrew Stacy

We have to play well. Batavia is very good. They are loaded year in and year out.

Toney Baker

I'm loaded with bait. I have a bait-cast rod, not too many people know how to use those.

Richard Sloan

Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render the conclusions questionable.

Keith Richard

Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Joss Whedon

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

Ryan Holmes

For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.

Lisa Graff

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Ken Young

I was a little angry. We didn't talk for a while. But I'm older now. I realized that I was too sensitive.

Kim Weston

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

Sarah Allen

We're older and a lot of people thought we were crazy. A lot of people still think we're crazy. They don't live in our shoes.

Barbara Saunders

Having a special strategy is critical. You can't use the shotgun approach,

Nick Harkaway

'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.

Doug Gay

He unloaded a shotgun on them. He killed one and maimed the other one.

Mario Puzo

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Eric Kripke

Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

Truman Capote

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

Mats Sundin

We were in disarray for awhile, squeezing our sticks and thinking too much, but we snapped out of it.

Craig Barr

I think we had 13 or 14 snaps in the first half. For the game, they had 62 snaps and we had 33.

Rafael Palmeiro

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.

Rudy Gay

Every person has their lulls. But I think I snapped out of my lulls and started to get better.

Greg Schiano

We feel we have to get our quarterbacks as many snaps as we can in all the different things we're going to do.

Sean Wade

We can't play 90 snaps and think we're going to be good. Somebody's going to get fatigued sooner or later.

David Lynch

I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.

Alastair Reynolds

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

Mark Fenton

That's the only quarterback that's ever taken snaps from me in a game, at least consistently.

Dave Peters

Of course, as soon as I say that, we'll get hit.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Jim Loehr

She's going to come out when she's ready, probably sooner than later, and set the world on fire,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon us do what we do,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon not watch them any more, they look pretty good.

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Gila Reinstein

We want them to feel very welcome and to be as acclimated as soon as possible.

Jon Daniels

We'd like to get him up here as soon as possible.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

Gillian Armstrong

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Elizabeth Warren

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Sam Worthington

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Clarence Thomas

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

Donita Stewart

She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done.

Deepak Chopra

What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them.

Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

Edgar Friedenberg

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

Benjamin Franklin

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Barbara Tuchman

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Blaise Pascal

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Cher

I'm going to have wrinkles really soon

Charlize Theron

As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!

Benjamin Franklin

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

Brooke Shields

People say, 'I love my wrinkles.' I don't love my wrinkles - come on!

Clark Gable

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

Charles Bukowski

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

Andrew Mason

If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.

Meryl Streep

Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.

Alber Elbaz

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.