Famous Quotes & Sayings

Many people are choosing this winter to replace their older furnace and invest in a high-efficiency furnace. Some of today's furnaces have an efficiency rating of 94.2 percent. That means, for every dollar you spend on gas, nearly 95 cents worth is heating your home. If you furnace is15 to 20 years old, the efficiency could be as low as 65 to 70 percent.

may just be a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that 90 cents a share was so much better than expected.

Now, they're making about 70 cents a pound, and most are pleased with that. They're not making a lot of money now, but they're making enough to make a comfortable living and not worry about losing the farm.

We had a very good relationship with Bruce, ... I am sure he put his two cents in. He was the only guy who knew me, so I would imagine he said something.

I don't think we're going back to 50 cents a pound.

Joseph Wright

I would be more than willing to pay the extra 10 cents per container with my food to make up for that extra cost.

Larry Ellison

If we had made less than 12 cents in operating income, we would have had to warn. We didn't warn.

Simple. I grew up a field-worker. My dad made 50 cents a day picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley. I never thought I'd get to teach, never thought I'd get to coach, never thought I'd have an NCAA champion, never thought I'd get to see the world. This university has done more for me than I could ever pay back. But I can do this -- and I want to.

If we can get two-thirds of our product development at one-fourth the cost, we come close to cutting our overall costs in half, ... Put another way, if I have 25 cents of every dollar this company takes in to spend on product development, getting more engineers working is how we can develop faster and how we win.

The only consolation is that prices in North County tend to run about 3 cents cheaper (than the rest of the county).

George Foreman

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

Tom Brokaw

My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.

Tiny Tim

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

Harold Urey

In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.

We are confident that our operating results, excluding the impact of special items, will meet or be slightly favorable to our prior guidance of a loss of 4 cents per share.

Yeah, but it costs 17 cents a bushel to truck the wheat from the field to Collins (the nearest 110-car loader).

Three cents sounds good. We do have a surplus and we should do something about the surplus and this is a way of giving something back to the taxpayers.

When gas prices go up 5 cents a gallon, that's maybe an extra $10 a week out of consumers' pockets. But when they're going up 15 cents and more, it means $20 extra a week.

We also think that the Street's fourth quarter 2002 expectation of 17 cents in earnings per share is unreasonably high,

Daniel Yergin

We're expecting another 20 cents more than where we are,

The profit is between 5 and 10 cents depending on what kind of gasoline we get,

We've seen our gas prices go up more than 25 cents since the first of the year. This is the fastest increase ever in the 10 years we've done the survey during this time of year.

We think American drivers should brace themselves for a fairly large increase, as soon as this weekend. It could be an increase of around five cents a gallon nationwide.

Steve Largent

to ensure that 90 cents of every federal education dollar goes directly to the classroom ... not the bureaucrats.

Perry Farrell

Here's my system. Music that's five years old should be a nickel. Music's that's three to four years old, you should pay a dime. If it's two years old, it's 50 cents and for new singles, 75 cents.

Historically, over the past 10 to 12 years, depositors with excess of $100,000 received 72 cents on the dollar.

James Mitchell

Go and see the quality of life of the people on the Chiquita plantations. People living in shacks, people living with tin roofs held on by stones and with earthen floors, people working for 20 U.S. cents a day.

James Mitchell

Go and see the quality of life of the people on the Chiquita plantations, ... People living in shacks, people living with tin roofs held on by stones and with earthen floors, people working for 20 U.S. cents a day.

If the high-grade gas commands 20 cents more per gallon, ... he can pocket $200 for selling 1,000 gallons of regular at the higher price.

Right now, you're talking to a company that 60 days ago had stock trading in the 12 to 14 cents range.

Record high gas prices won't keep Americans from traveling this holiday. Despite gas prices that are nearly 50 cents per gallon higher than they were a year ago, record numbers of travelers will hit the highways.

I think everyone knows it's not a huge incremental piece of information when oil's up another 25 cents or so, even when it's near another record.

Local plants have netted most farmers between 10 and 15 cents more a bushel.