Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Reeker

We've been very satisfied and continue to be satisfied with our cooperation with Saudi Arabia with this matter.

Saudi Arabia

We told the British that there are some communications taking place between some terrorists in Saudi Arabia and some other parties in the UK,

David Gillette

It gives the dollar a competitor. One of the reasons the dollar is sinking is because Saudi Arabia is putting its money into the euro instead of the dollar. It gives people an alternative.

Guy Caruso

I don't have any specific concerns about Saudi Arabia at this time.

Deborah White

Other than the weather, and hurricanes, and refineries going down, and Saudi Arabia and Iran, and strong economic statistics, there really is no reason why crude oil prices should be so high. It must be speculation, don't you think?

Apollonius of Tyana

In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.

Matthew Simmons

In 2003 there was basically a chain-link fence around this incredible facility. What's worrisome is that the various bombings that have taken place in these complexes in Saudi Arabia so far have all had the markings of being an inside job.

Bill Clinton

If you look at what we did in our library -- we reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 34 percent, we reduced our electric bill by 34 percent, with more efficient lighting, more efficient heating, all kinds of conservation measures. We have over 300 solar panels which were made in America. So instead of sending money to Saudi Arabia or someplace else for oil we sent the money to an American manufacturing company to hire Americans to make solar panels. So it is good business.

Chris Cannon

If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it's like three times as much as all of that combined and that's just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available.

Ken Ham

What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.

Don Tapscott

Kids are very savvy about the technology. But I'm not sure they totally understand the implications of a billion people being able to see them doing whatever is posted.

Doug Elliott

I would think his election increases the likelihood of a pension bill this year.

Al Cárdenas

Katherine has wanted to run for Senate for quite some time. Bill Nelson is vulnerable in our polling, and she seems passionate about this and wants to do it.

Lou McFadin

I talked to Bill McArthur today as he was passing by.

William Jefferson

I think it is unrealistic to appropriate $10 billion, $30 billion at a time, ... It's important to talk about the big number up front.

Bill Harding

I think investors have become more serious about the impact of taxes because they were saddled with tax bills in 2000 -- but many funds performed poorly as the market crashed.

Alex Brand

It blows my mind that a $25 billion dollar company is going public, ... It is truly incredible. That will be one issue everyone will be clamoring for.

Randy Allen

Itanium remains a niche play at the high end of the market. If you look at the return on investment in Itanium it's a trail of tears. Pouring another ten billion dollars in makes the story that much sadder.

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Scott Bilker

Keep all your records. By law, the credit-card company must investigate your dispute.

Gray Davis

Just the other day, we had to pay $1,900 for a megawatt hour, which a year ago would have cost us $30, ... And the reason this company named Reliant out of Texas gave us for charging us that much money was, they said, the state's credit isn't any good.

Stephen Roelofse

I think in time they will probably make an offer (for Western Areas). I can't see them taking a passive stake in the company like that.

Eugene Christiansen

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate. You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Eugene Christiansen

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate, ... You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Dusty Baker

Harold Reynolds told me that maybe he should have gotten a Gold Glove over Bret Boone. That's pretty good company right there.

Larry Butler

Harold feels the company needed to set up an escrow reserve with a local roofing company to cover the normal percentage of defective roof warranties they issued while they were in Jackson.

George Packer

Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.

Steve Carr

I would say they were very heroic. I understand the staff was efficient and professional.

Dave Cassels

John is a really efficient guy when it comes to this kind of stuff, and he has been really good at helping out the association. He's been involved in all of the layout and planning for the website.

Jim Hossack

I suspect it will be Mexico and not be a UAW facility. The UAW won't like it, but Ford doesn't have a choice. Manufacturing has to go where it's most efficient and low-cost.

Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Kyle Wright

I think the new offense is making me more efficient and helping my all-around game.

Linda Lingle

I think the governors right now are learning a tough lesson...I think you realize quickly that it's a combination of doing things in a more efficient manner, making sure you are maximizing the money you are getting from Washington.

John Gordon

I think the government has enough money. The government can just be more efficient in how it manages the money.

Cary Justmann

I thought we played a very efficient match as a team. Our kids played with a lot of focus. I'm very proud of the effort they gave.

Danny Ainge

I think we can be more efficient in some ways, especially offensively. Wally is such an efficient player, he scores with fewer shots.

Wayne Taylor

I think it may have started as an electrical fire because I started smelling something in the cockpit,

John Updike

Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.

Walter Rodgers

There is no electricity in parts of town, but there is food, there is water.

Ray Charles

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room

Jeff Eidson

I think that leaning would be toward electric companies. It ebbs and flows.

Greg Dobbs

He had electric stuff, ... It was just one of those nights where he couldn't miss.

Toby Hall

He has electric stuff. So far, he's been lights-out. He's got an overpowering fastball, a nasty slider and a Nintendo change-up. It's good to have him, for sure. From what I've seen, he's got the makeup and the stuff.

Loesje

Recent research has proven: Trains do not run on time but on electricity

Judy Mazulaitis

In the back, it took the electric pole -- split it in half, and threw it on the roof.

Jerry Martin

They're a huge source of emissions because they tend to be locked in traffic for long periods of time.

Erin Rogers

We are already seeing some of the hottest years on record. It will only get worse if emissions aren't cut.

Gerald Doucet

The role of natural gas role in power generation is not a slam dunk. There are relative price, emissions and security issues to take into account.

David Henderson

When we're talking about market instruments, then we are much more favorably inclined to emissions trading than we are to taxes and charges.

John Woods

On the face of it, installing new plant to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions is a good thing.

Ross Pillari

Wide-scale deployment of technology such as hydrogen power can make a significant contribution to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions needed worldwide.

Mike Haley

I swear, if you tell me how you're going to solve these gas prices, I'll vote for you.

Chris Christensen

It can?t be like this forever. Just the other day a gas station opened in the neighborhood. Every day it gets better.

Jerry Lambert

Here you're at the mercy of the gas companies.

Nancy Cartwright

I think its ironic that for once dad's butt prevented the release of toxic gas

Jim Smith

I think the drive-to travel market is still up in the air, and we won't know until Thanksgiving, ... That's the next big travel holiday in the petroleum industry. But, generally, I think the rapid escalation in the price of gasoline has slowed down demand.

Alan Peterson

Last month, we handed out 52 gallons of gas and we've handed out 78 gallons this month. We hear about every excuse,

Candace Smith

We think gas prices had something to do with it.

Steve Reynolds

We're on track to record high gas prices this winter,

Phil Riccio

I think we had plenty of gas left. They just made some plays.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Paul Marsh

Kinston paled a great game, and with them, it's always a battle. We didn't shoot well from the outside, but it's good to pick up that second win in a row.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Alex Winter

Knowing that it is highly competitive, and I'm not the first person to say this, but good stories do tend to get made.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

J. C. Watts

If you shoot the C.E.O., they'll hire another one. The job will still get done.

Mark Neumann

If somebody walks in to me and says, 'I'm a gay person, I want a job in your office,' I would say that's inappropriate, and they wouldn't be hired because that would mean they are promoting their agenda.

Anson Funderburgh

I love Sammy, and I can't imagine moving on without him, but at the same time, we might have to hire somebody else.

Amy Adams

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

Dave Nonis

I'm not going to talk about individual people. I want to make sure that when we hire somebody, that it's someone that we're comfortable with as a person.

Konstantin Guericke

The truth is that most people prefer to hire someone who is known by someone whose opinion they value and trust. But there was never before a systematic way to identify inside connections to the hiring manager.

Al Jourgensen

Today, if I could get a job, with face tattoos, being a professor, I would do that. I don't know what university would hire me, but that's my passion.

Unknown Unknown

Talk is cheap, until you hire a lawyer.

Gary Graham

It's important enough that we should take another look at it, ... We've hired (engineering firm) HMG to take a look at the rates. There's still going to be a sewer rate increase, but it may be spread out through more years.

Ken Hill

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Samir Haj

Karen has been our go-to person on the junior varsity team. We're going to incorporate more people into the scheme. We're going to start playing 18 people instead of just 13 or 14.

Klaus Allofs

He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.

Scott Aukerman

I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we got into trouble when they started pressuring us and the five-count was on. Instead of taking them off the dribble, we got tentative. I just think we stopped attacking.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year. Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year, ... Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Bob Johnson

Hopefully, we can have one large one instead of several smaller ones.

John Ashcroft

I think it is always very important for us to take those kinds of requests very seriously,

David Sanborn

I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's that used pop production values, but instrumental music; like improvising with R&B kinds of song structures, but with improvisation in them, and pop production values.

Debra Lee

I was working on all kinds of projects. Every six months we were starting something new.

Ron Prince

I don't even talk about those kinds of things.

Shaul Goldstein

In every community, there are people who want to leave for all kinds of reasons -- especially if they are going to receive money.

Jim Calhoun

In those 11 games, we did all kinds of things. We played and got better during this period. And I don?t know if we ever peaked, per se, nor did I want us to.

Jason Isbell

I like those kinds of songs that have details that you remember and that have stories that mean something and that open up into different levels philosophically. I like those kinds of movies, and I like those kinds of books.

Kyle Young

I just make up different calls, ... There's all kinds of things you can do.

Juicy J

I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.

Richelle Mead

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

Umberto Eco

Libraries can take the place of God.

Umberto Eco

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

Richard Russo

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

Robin Ince

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

Virginia Woolf

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

Robertson Davies

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

Zadie Smith

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

William Godwin

He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.

Edmund White

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Chris Beatty

He'll be making a lot more money than that senator.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Sarah Palin

Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

Rodrigo Rato

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Robert Rauschenberg

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.

Walter Benjamin

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Veerappa Moily

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

Veerappa Moily

Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Gina Laughlin

A lease rejection does not signal any type of reduced operation.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Janet Fitch

I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

Junichiro Kawaguchi

Sending Minerva to the surface did not work.

Sunita Narain

Sending in the commandos sounds very hip, but it isn't the whole solution.

Ron Gardenhire

Sending him back out there, that's a little silly to try to do something stupid with a man's career. We haven't done that to him all year, and we weren't going to start today.

Danny Mills

On reflection, I think the sending off was justified.

John Lelangue

But we'll be sending a competitive team to the Giro.

Dan Carter

I was sending her all the way. There was no stopping her.

Luis Suarez

My parents separated when I was nine, but my father was always around, and he still follows me now. He is always sending me messages.

Brad Wilkerson

He can hit. It's not like you're sending an out up there every time.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Lara Stone

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

John Laird

I just think I was sent up here to vote,

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ellen Glasgow

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Napoleon Bonaparte

An urgent missive sent to Josephine""Home in three days. Don't wash.

O. Henry

It's going right on out of the solar system.

Alex Young

We would ultimately like to have a warning system throughout the solar system so we could know when these storms will occur.

Joe Cocker

I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'

Marc Prokosch

Today, when you don't know your neighbors, you look for someplace that's your community. This is the community.

John Catsimatidis

We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers.