Famous Quotes & Sayings

I really loved the words (red wanting blue) and I thought they were a very good reflection of being in a band. I felt it was an appropriate name with which we could play anywhere, from a coffee shop to a heavy metal bar and it wouldn't matter. I wanted a name that was vague.

John Glover

I purchased a house a few years ago. I do not want to see a bar in that area. I don't think it's feasible. I have no objections to a restaurant or a coffee house. I think (a bar) is going to take away from my property and make my property values go down.

I played basketball. I barrel raced. We used to break horses.

I played with them for a couple years and they certainly set the bar high, but that's good. That's just going to bring our level up. We're not trying to fill their shoes. We're trying to make new shoes. We're trying to build our own crew, our own linebackers.

Investors know that the upside resistance (on the Nikkei) is strong at 16,000 points, so the best strategy is hunting bargains when the market sinks.

Investors used to look at ratings for a barometer as to whether to sell or buy bonds.

Rory Bremner

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.

In that sense, it has been rewarding in a sick way. We're leaner and meaner with oil at $55 a barrel coming off the peak than we were going up to $55 the first time.

In terms of the kind of hurdle that Microsoft and IBM have to leap over, the kind of growth they have to deliver is not as significant a bar as it is for Intel.

Iran and Nigeria have got people extremely nervous. There's a concern that around two and a half million barrels per day of Iranian exports could be removed.

If you think Hong Kong's expensive today, wait 'til you see it five years from now. We'll call Tokyo Macy's bargain basement. It is going to be an extremely expensive city. The pressure's going to be on companies always to define what value-added role does Hong Kong have.

If you slept too many hours, you didn't even know it. We barely caught the tail end of it.

If you sense you have bargaining power, you can write your own ticket.

Robert Wilson

If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way.

If you're talking about a 400,000 barrels per day refinery next to a French Chateau in the Loire valley, the timeline is infinite. If you're looking at an industrialized part that already includes an oil refinery, it's much less of a big deal.

Tim McCarthy

If you're sitting in a bar in Oakland County and you need to get someplace your best bet is going to be calling a cab that typically serves that area.

If you've put together a wish list to buy stocks, there are some great bargains out there. The include quality names, those that remember to bring that top line revenues down the bottom line in the form of earnings -- that's going to be the key.

David Lawrence

If you want to completely tear yourself away from your home, your family and all you've ever known; if you want to endure months and years of a Spartan lifestyle and a harsh disciplinary regime; and if you don't mind carrying out the most menial tasks with only the bare minimum of material, then by all means join the French Foreign Legion.

Will Rogers

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

Ann Landers

If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel

In addition, such an outcome would encourage other employee groups to join unions to improve their bargaining position in future contract talks.

Chris Evans

I had eel at a sushi bar once; it's disgusting. I thought it was chicken. It looked like chicken. It was brown and looked delicious, and I was like, 'That looks safe.' It wasn't.

Ernest Rutherford

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

Kevin Heffernan

I remember I was supposed to take the bar exam that summer just when we got the chance to make our first feature. I told my parents I wasn't going to take the bar exam, and they were pretty upset about it.

George Hamilton

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

Jean de la Bruyere

Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

I cleared my first two events in OK shape (a 9.35 on the bars and 9.7 on the beam) and I knew I had my best two events coming up. With my favorite events (the floor exercise and vault) still to come, I knew I had a good chance to repeat.

Ashley Johnson

I chose the Nutri-Grain bar because it's really good and I really like oatmeal,

I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various reasons.

I can see why Barber would make this up. He was in a kill or be killed situation, and he got what he wanted, ... It was 'lie about Justin and I could get out of this.'

Christopher Buckley

I don't like breathing other people's smoke, but if we can put a man on the moon, my guess is that we can find a way to ventilate the smoke in one section of a bar or restaurant away from the non-smokers.

Magic Johnson

I'd never been on a team where if you don't win a championship, it's a failure. For that to be the norm is pretty mind-boggling. The bar has been set pretty high here because of the history.

I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.