Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Clinton

It's time to turn off the pork barrel spigot and deliver for our children's future.

It's less than 30,000 barrels a day in a country that consumes 21 million. That's not even rearranging a single deck chair on the Titanic. But psychologically, it has some effect.

A barrel that contains the wine will retain the drop in its staves.

Jules Feiffer

A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears.

I supported local projects in the $286 billion transportation bill, even though it was filled with pork (pork barrel projects),

By June we should be looking at modestly another half a million barrels of capacity a day.

Marcus Davis

I'm just having fun out there and putting good barrel on the ball. They are a great group of guys and anything I can do to help the team.

If oil prices were to stay at $35 a barrel throughout 2001 or if they were to escalate to $40 a barrel or over, then the impact on inflation and world growth would be more significant,

The fire escaped the barrel and the conditions were such, very windy, very hot, very dry, that the fire just literally exploded and took off.

Joseph Stanislaw

The figure depends on how the cuts are delivered. No one is really expecting the full 2 million barrels per day to be delivered, but somewhere around three-quarters of those cuts is what the market is looking for.

The IEA have only predicted losses in refined crude production for September, and the reality is that 4 major US refineries with a total output of 900,000 barrels are still down, and they are expected to be for the next 2-3 months.

The gasoline draw is a bullish number, without doubt. The decline was much bigger than the 1.1 million barrels draw the Street was anticipating,

The gasoline barrels from Europe might take two weeks to get here. Things will get worse before they get better because stocks will be tighter.

Michael Fitzpatrick

The effects of Katrina will be felt throughout the economy, reducing demand and keeping a lid on energy prices. The federal government is ready to release barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and there is significant help coming from abroad.

The crude market and the global economy have been quite willing to pay $60 a barrel without harm. The only thing that has happened is that the economic boom that gave us the fastest economic growth in 25 years has slowed a little bit to bring demand back in line.

The flow of money into commodities is comparable with the flow of money into mutual funds in the 1980s and 1990s. It's like steroids, pumping up prices and leading people to talk about super-spikes to $100 a barrel or more.

You could work up to that level, $90 to $100 a barrel, in the next two years. It could go to $90 or $100 a barrel pretty quick if something went haywire.

You could drink whisky straight out the barrel and it would taste rotten, ... Or you could be patient and wait 12 years. Then you get something magnificent. That's what Slow Food is all about.

The market expects bearish inventories, with crude up by 1.5 million barrels, distillates down 1.7 million barrels and gasoline supplies unchanged.

The initial question is where is the 2 million barrels going to come from.

The underlying drivers of this market - resources, energy - are continuing to run very strongly at record highs in copper, nickel, zinc, aluminum, gold ... oil prices are back to 68 bucks a barrel despite this wonderful, balmy weather we're having.

It looked like money down a rat hole. I can certainly see why they'd be cautious now. Just because you're making an extra $35 a barrel doesn't mean you should be pouring that into exploration.

Van Wyck Brooks

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.