Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elmore Lockley

The prices have gone down because the prices we purchase natural gas have gone down. There also has been increased drilling and increases in storage capacity.

David Pratt

No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.

Frances Beinecke

Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

Mike Pastore

We're still drilling holes, but so far nothing.

Kate Beckinsale

I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.

Melinda Pierce

We're surprised that the focus is on more drilling when drilling has shown itself to be a vulnerability. It's misguided to focus on drilling.

Erik Molvar

Drilling multiple oil and gas (wells) would not only wreck the solitude of these remote areas, but would leave man-made scars on the landscape for centuries.

Paul Friel

He's drilling him with all kinds of questions.

Jeff Goodell

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Alexandra Paul

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

Kevin Mitnick

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. I was like James Bond behind the computer. I was just having a blast.

David Scurto

Make sure you have the willpower of your elected officials and the people.

William Jones

Leon has influenced more lives, I think, than probably any single elected official in this region.

Philippe Gijsels

Lower prices are hurting utilities and energy companies. Electricity prices are an enormous risk for utilities so we shouldn't be surprised by the response.

Uri Dromi

Sharon won't make any concessions to Abbas, but we will hear a lot of positive rhetoric. Sharon now will play for time because obviously elections are what matters to him and he doesn't want to be perceived as giving in to the Arabs.

Trent Duffy

So far, the views on the elections in Iraq have been positive,both by the United Nations, as well as other observers.

Marie Wilson

Maybe we can actually use this show to get that tippy point over and have a woman elected to office.

David Wimhurst

Nobody expected (voter turnout) to be higher than the first round, and historically there's not a lot of turnout for legislative elections in Haiti.

Robert Jenkins

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert Toombs

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Kurt Andersen

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

David Scott

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Linda Tripp

Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously.

Hoshyar Zebari

left to the Kuwaiti government itself and its estimation about the situation in Iraq.

Tasnim Aslam

No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.

David Williams

No one in government is making hard choices,

Dennis Weaver

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Dennis Weaver

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

Deng Xiaoping

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

Edgar Allan Poe

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

Edvard Munch

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Ed Markey

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Dizzy Dean

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

George Baker

To produce this oil efficiently and quickly, you need people who've done it before.

Todd Harris

Monday-morning quarterbacking that you see at a political convention.

Dennis Prager

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

Deng Xiaoping

To get rich is glorious.

Eldridge Cleaver

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Elizabeth Emken

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Eliot Spitzer

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Nina Easton

Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.

Berry Gordy

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

BeBe Winans

I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

Stewart Cink

No, ... But I'll probably tell him at the Presidents Cup. He won't remember that, so me telling him that would be sort of anticlimactic.

Monica Crowley

Weak presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded by their publics.

Jill Lepore

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

Helen Thomas

Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time.

Jim Rogers

Presidents are reluctant to take on a regent,

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Richard Williams

Now the question is 'What is the right price for the shares?'.

Jack Cox

I feel sorry for the (homeless) people. But what price do we pay?

Michael Gartenberg

The price sounds reasonable and should resonate with consumers,

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

John Simley

If we're going to make this work, the price must be transparent to the consumer.

Steve Lemke

Now we're taking what we had and putting it on steroids,

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.

Luis Sojo

If they don't come to practice, they don't want to be on the team. This isn't about individualism, it's about putting together a team that can represent us with honor.

Rajeev Shukla

I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.

Tyler Oakley

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

Eric Ripert

We are putting in a lot of fabrics.

Shawn Oubre

We are putting all our resources into getting the repairs made.

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Paul Cavalluzzo

I don't ever recall receiving any instructions with respect to caveats being down,

Mark Baldassare

He was able to do it two years ago in the recall election, and that's what he's trying to do again.

Don McLean

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Ambrose Bierce

recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

George Thompson

I thought volume trends were good. And the recall seems to be a thing of the past.

Gene Taylor

I was there ? and I didn't recall seeing you there,

Douglas McGrath

Truman Capote: In which various friends, enemies, acquaintances and detractors recall his turbulent career.

Bill Rodgers

Don't worry, every one slows over time and I recall running slower at 43 than at 40.

Kylie Minogue

When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

Tyra Banks

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

Charles R. Swindoll

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Ed Parker

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

Ada Huxtable

She taught us how to look at blocks.

Kelsey Jakupcin

She taught me that winning as a team is more important than winning as an individual. It's all about the team.

Shelli Adams

She has taught me to be an administrator, to be global, to really look for what?s right for the kids.

Ben Jonson

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ving Rhames

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.

Dick Gephardt

one of the most important votes we will take in this Congress.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Charles Kennedy

Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.

Pete Wilson

We'll have to see who has the votes if it comes to that.

Richard Rossi

To make up this many votes is probably very difficult. I'll see how I feel in a week.

Jerry Bell

We're overwhelmed by it. It was more votes than we expected.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Al Scates

They're very solid. They had a lot of first-place votes this week. We know they are for real.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Bob Holthus

When you put up a million-dollar purse, naturally, you're going to try to win it.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.