Famous Quotes & Sayings

Energy up on a day-to-day basis is a factor. Crude is approaching $70 a barrel and natural gas is up too.

Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.

Each year has been different. We've had our ups and downs. Two different times we had so many injuries we could barely field a team. We are hoping to play our best and see what happens.

Jim Carter

Each truck carries about 400 tons of material and we get about 200 barrels of oil from that.

Eric was the only skier that pulled off an inverted maneuver in the course. We decided to go with the flip, knowing it was going to be difficult and there was a risk he might not be in the top scores of the day if he couldn't stick the landing. Not only did he land it but he took a lot of speed through the middle section and stayed just under control. The crowd couldn't believe it, I could barely believe it.

Tasha Smith

Floor and vault are our two best events, so we were kind of psyched that they were last. So we just got together before we went to floor and we decided to show them what we could do. What happened on bars and beam is in the past now.

Five, six years ago, Venezuela was producing 3 million barrels a day. Now, it's closer to 2 million.

Jim Taylor

Folks know Cracker Barrel for comfort foods, the fire place, the rocking chairs and nostalgic candy.

Farmer weighs 180 pounds and is playing tackle. Frye and Roach barely played last year. Alcorn is a first-year player. Bryant played JV (junior varsity) last year. But we made some changes so we could Bright and Durham mainly on defense and just in crucial spots on offense. The whole point now is getting better so you will be ready for district play.

Every year that Tampa has hosted the Super Bowl, we've raised the bar on what to do and we need to find out what's new.

Exchanges generally have proven to be much more profitable than initially thought. They have monopolistic characteristics, which means there are very high barriers to entry, and that's a businessman's dream.

There was a cushion that was barely smoking, so I threw it out the back door.

There's such a dark cloud over this, it's disappointing. As a kid, you wondered who'd be the next guy to pass Ruth or maybe Aaron. We're talking about a great, great player in Barry Bonds, but there's that black cloud, and I just think we all wish it could go away.

There's still work we need to do to make our communities safe, and I am particularly concerned about the increase in the number of reported rapes, ... We must continue to expand DNA technology and put these violent criminals behind bars before they repeat their crimes.

Seek a sanctuary, Respect it, as it is holy, Walk into it with a bare mind, bare feet and plain clothing, Nurture your body, mind and spirit through a healing ritual, Leave it with a pure heart until you find your way to it again.

Scores have declined the last two years, ... We have got to get kids to take the more rigorous courses and raise the bar for them.

Rubens is not only an excellent driver but he has the experience of building a race and championship winning team and these skills are very important as we work to take BAR Honda to the next level.

Kofi Annan

Sadly, the reality of the international trading system today does not match the rhetoric. Instead of open markets, there are too many barriers that stunt, stifle and starve,

Santa Barbara is a very good team. They are currently ranked No. 10, and more than anything, we will expect them to be really physical. This will be a good opportunity for us to see if we learned and improved upon some things from playing Davis because it will probably be a similar type of game.

Jean Baudrillard

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Lorin Maazel

Salzburg was where he was born and where he was rejected. I don't think he was capable of writing a boring bar of music.

Robert Jeffress

Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion.

Putting these criminals behind bars is the only way to stop these Peeping Tom marauders who not only violate our privacy but also our safety.

Puppies are going to cry and dogs are going to bark. That's just the way they are. I don't want a $50 fine every time someone calls and complains about my dogs barking at a tractor going down the road.

Rankings really mean nothing at this point. It's going to be a good barometer of where we are early in the season.

George Benson

R&B music became gigantic with people like Marvin Gaye and Barry White and Curtis Mayfield who became superstars. We tried to find a place where Jazz belonged because we didn't sell records.

Prices have been going down since last weekend and seem to have settled in at a pretty comfortable level. They're a real bargain by Final Four standards.

Productivity did set the tone, and now oil's moved back up slightly, but it doesn't seem to be spiking. As a group, consumers and traders, we're getting used to the idea of $60 a barrel oil.

Production in the Gulf has yet to recover and the trouble in Nigeria shows no signs of easing. We are missing about 1 million barrels of output.

Procter & Gamble truly sets the bar when it comes to identifying and implementing innovative retail solutions.

Glenn Reynolds

People used to be ignorant. It was hard to learn things. You had to go to libraries, look things up, perhaps sit and wait until a book was fetched from storage, or recalled from another user, or borrowed from a different library . . . Things are different today. I'm writing this in a bar right now, and I have most of human knowledge at my fingertips.

Patric Verrone

Our slate clearly selected a campaign platform - organizing the creative community to better bargain with media companies - that resonated with writers.

Our defense was barely there. We didn't have any rotation.