Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurtwood Smith

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.

Ray Tanner

Let's make no mistake; he was a good hitter to begin with. But good hitters need to be strong, too. The added strength has made a lot of difference for his this year.

Tracy Brown

Lots of my clients saw it and became excited. It added credibility and created a good opportunity for me to talk to them and pitch new business. With an article about mutual funds, it's easy to move to talking about the client's portfolio.

Drew Olson

Last year's line was in the first year with Coach Cable. I think the added year has made a difference in the timing thing that's expected to be there.

Toshihiko Matsuno

Share prices fell in knee-jerk reaction to a retreat on Wall Street overnight. Investors also took a breather after the benchmark Nikkei index added more than 200 points yesterday.

John Hansen

Scott is a very important addition to our group, giving us added abilities in litigation and added experience in land use and real estate. We have tremendous opportunities for growth in the land use area in California. Scott's practice is statewide and really quite extraordinary.

Karel De

Mladic is popular and there is support for him there, but we have to put added pressure on Serbia to hand him over or at least say where he is.

Heath Gibson

Missing four players really put a bind on us and with the added 10 feet because of the court at Huntingdon College our girls got winded and we didn't have substitutes for them.

Karl Rove

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

Mark Dalmrymple

Many people are choosing this winter to replace their older furnace and invest in a high-efficiency furnace. Some of today's furnaces have an efficiency rating of 94.2 percent. That means, for every dollar you spend on gas, nearly 95 cents worth is heating your home. If you furnace is15 to 20 years old, the efficiency could be as low as 65 to 70 percent.

Gary Frazier

may just be a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that 90 cents a share was so much better than expected.

Jamey Clary

Now, they're making about 70 cents a pound, and most are pleased with that. They're not making a lot of money now, but they're making enough to make a comfortable living and not worry about losing the farm.

Quincy Morgan

We had a very good relationship with Bruce, ... I am sure he put his two cents in. He was the only guy who knew me, so I would imagine he said something.

Jack Scoville

I don't think we're going back to 50 cents a pound.

Joseph Wright

I would be more than willing to pay the extra 10 cents per container with my food to make up for that extra cost.

Larry Ellison

If we had made less than 12 cents in operating income, we would have had to warn. We didn't warn.

Bob Fraley

Simple. I grew up a field-worker. My dad made 50 cents a day picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley. I never thought I'd get to teach, never thought I'd get to coach, never thought I'd have an NCAA champion, never thought I'd get to see the world. This university has done more for me than I could ever pay back. But I can do this -- and I want to.

Dwight Decker

If we can get two-thirds of our product development at one-fourth the cost, we come close to cutting our overall costs in half, ... Put another way, if I have 25 cents of every dollar this company takes in to spend on product development, getting more engineers working is how we can develop faster and how we win.

Mike McCue

Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.

David Mellem

Lower taxes are great, but if its going to cost you money, it's not worth it. If a stock hits your sell range after 3 months, do you really want to risk 9 more months of fluctuation to get a lower tax rate?

Frank Armstrong

Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important.

Kumi Naidoo

Leaders have dashed hopes and squandered opportunities, and empty promises cost lives.

Mike Kelly

Last year we reached 355 fifth-graders, at a cost of $6 a student, ... We did this with the help and sponsorship of SFA, Nacogdoches ISD, Coca-Cola, Nacogdoches Safe and Drug Free and others. People stepped up throughout the year, and we received very positive feedback. It was a great adventure, and we will do it again.

David Hudson

Many, many farmers have made significant inroads into their cost structure and we have seen a very significant surge in diversification.

Joe Baca

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Kurt Barnard

Sears is on the way back to health. They're doing a good job (of cost cutting) and they are offering customers a good, recognizable value and customers are responding.

Stephanie Marquis

So far, we have 382 claims. We're estimating the cost to the state has been about $64,000.

Don Hill

The plant is going to make about 40 million gallons of ethanol a year, which is about midrange in size (for an ethanol plant).

David Pimentel

I wish ethanol were everything that advocates say it is, but it is terrible that this has been latched on to and proposed to be a solution to our liquid fuels problem.

Peter Beutel

Traders remain extremely nervous about gasoline supplies, especially with the switch to ethanol nationwide.

Rudi Giuliani

You look at the promise that ethanol gives us. We'd want to look at what's the right way to do it. Do you do it with tax credits, do you do it with incentives, do you do it with subsidies? But we sure as heck want to jump-start that.

David Cowley

We are in a pretty good position as far as ethanol here. We use so little of it in the summer.

Matt Hartwig

There are still improvements you can make in terms of planned efficiencies, and getting more ethanol from that bushel of corn.

Jack Haley

We're positive about ethanol and we'd like to see it succeed, but there are issues with using it in some vehicles, ... And the vehicle manufacturers actually recommend some vehicles don't use an ethanol blend, so we have to be cautious.

Larry Johnston

Nobody wants any development in their back yard, even though ethanol plants are a good neighbor,

Ronald Miller

We're excited about the prospects of the ethanol industry and we're excited to move this plant along.

Jeff Lenard

When gas is $3 a gallon the retailer is responsible for about 4 percent of the cost, but they are getting 100 percent of the abuse.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

Evan Smith

With this kind of hiccup in refinery capacity, in stretched markets like California, you could see over $4 a gallon in gas.

John Bryant

We know where every gallon of liquid goes to.

Rose Rougeau

What I'm hearing is that more and more we are topping the $3 a gallon mark in Texas.

Austin O'Malley

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

Ciara

I tell myself that water is my medicine and that to stay well, I have to drink a gallon of it every day.

Randy Bly

I think gas at $3 a gallon and up is going to be the rule here, as we get into the Labor Day weekend.

John Salley

I eat a lot of kale, and I drink about half a gallon to a gallon of water a day.

Alexandra Paul

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

Larry Wachtel

Low-end consumers, the ones that spend every penny of their paycheck, are really hurting with these gasoline prices.

Maryann Keller

We've never been in a market like this, where gasoline prices are cheap. It's a world that's very hostile to small cars.

Jose Vicente

If we can sell gasoline to China, India and Latin America, as we have been doing, we will not have a problem.

Pat Fagan

I'd like to give you $100 (in gasoline money) for whoever gives you the buses.

Bill Richardson

The projections that the futures market is making are that you're going to see gradual decreases in gasoline prices,

Michael McNamara

The overall number did perk up at the end of the month. Higher gasoline prices did help a bit.

Gregg Laskoski

We know that they (motorists) are getting tired of hearing the rationalizations for the way gasoline prices are going higher.

Jeff Bell

We've always planned on gasoline being over $65 a barrel,