Famous Quotes & Sayings

We believe that the oil ministers are inclined to defend a $55 per barrel floor in the near term.

When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.

We were back to normal production six weeks after the hurricane. During that six weeks we distributed a million barrels of on-hand gas and imported another two million barrels for local and regional use.

We're staring down the barrel of a loaded gun and that gun is ready to fire,

We're staring down the barrel of $4 a gallon for gas.

Frank Murkowski

When we had $10 a barrel a year ago, it was the market that was making the determination, ... To blame 'big oil' on profiteering is a little misleading ... the market is setting the price, not U.S. 'big oil.'

We're forecasting oil will grind higher up to $33, ... with an ultimate spike up to $40 a barrel on the outbreak of hostilities.

With the right investment environment and under the right government, Iraq could increase production by a million barrels a day every year for the next 10 years, ... It could be the largest oil exporter in the world, eclipsing Saudi Arabia.

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.

We were blown off the floor in every way from top to bottom. Classical was tough in the post, they made shots, and they played very good defense. We played okay for a 5-to-8-minute stretch, but we played poorly at both ends. It's just one of those games that you'll have to throw in the barrel and move on.

There are people who think there are hundreds of millions, perhaps even billion barrel oil fields down there or trillions of cubic feet of gas.

John Wycliffe

Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.

On an average, we estimate to produce approximately 746,000 barrels of oil per day in 2006.

Holly Black

Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem to barrel through an interview like this, so I imagine I have a long way to go.

From his language he recognizes that while higher prices are good for revenues in the short run, longer term they help destroy demand. OPEC is probably going to increase by 1 million barrels a day.

Fundamentally, the prices don't belong at these (mid-20s) levels. This is a $20 a barrel market. The rest is speculative fluff.

If anything is going to trigger an increase in prices down the road, it's $65 a barrel oil.

Kenny Troutt

I was in oil when oil was $8 a barrel and in construction when interest rates were 20 percent. I was looking for something everyone used and where you could build a customer base - and if it was successful, you could take it nationwide and even worldwide.

John Yarmuth

Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it.

Kevin McCarthy

Keystone will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, North Dakota, and Montana to Gulf Coast refineries.

Andy Irons

I saw it was a little crumbly out there and I knew that Damien would be looking for the barrel and luckily he only got that one,

Mike Bryan

It hurts. It doesn't feel good to let your team down when you are staring down the barrel of giving yourself a two-set lead.

It is a country interested in growing rapidly, and one of the big bottlenecks in its growth has been energy. If it was suddenly trying to buy 1.5 million barrels today, it'd sop up most of the surplus right now.

Lyle Overbay

It hit the end of my glove. It just sneaked out of there. I know he was trying to throw up and away. You obviously don't want to throw it there. You don't want him to get the barrel on the ball. But that's not where we lost the game. We lost the game by not scoring a run with Wes Helms leading off the seventh with a double.

I think the bullish case is emboldened by the fact that, despite a lot of reasons, investors just haven't been willing to sell stocks en masse yet, ... Had someone told you 18 months ago that oil would reach $70 a barrel and gas would be $3.00 plus for a gallon, and the Dow Transports would only be 200 points off their all-time highs, you would have never believed it.

The people here have a tremendous interest in team roping, barrel racing and the youth rodeo.

What I hear from chief information officers from all over the world is that $70 a barrel for oil is having an impact on their business,

I expect we can do it by the middle of next year. We can increase by 500,000 barrels quickly if we de-cap the capped oil wells,

Giving people opportunity to taste wines in barrel versus in the bottle.

GM's promotion of E-85 fuel is helping to build the infrastructure needed for the ethanol industry to continue growing and replacing millions of barrels of non-renewable oil. The ethanol industry is committed to meeting the demands of millions of American consumers who want to choose cleaner-burning ethanol.

He's been dropping the barrel (of the bat) more than he has in the past. It was good to see him looking like the old Chance from Rosenblatt last year today.

Keith Stanfield

I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.