Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Lazarovici

Just the mere concept of combining the No. 2 and No. 3 (nickel) producers in the western world into one company is enough to make regulators take a good hard look.

Daniel Yergin

rising crude oil prices, low fuel inventories, strong summer driving season demand and an environmentally driven transition to new gasoline specifications are combining to keep upward pressure on pump prices.

Vincenzo Guzzo

In particular, it will have to succeed in combining growth-enhancing measures with a debt consolidation process.

Damien Chazelle

I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

Nina Tassler

Dave Ramsey has the potential to be a true force on the television screen, combining a dynamic and inspiring persona with knowledge and expertise of how to make a difference in someone's life.

Paul Lang

As your skills progress, there's even more freedom. It's like combining so many sports into one that's outrageously fun to be involved in.

John Hall

A tepid equity market, a flat yield curve and low interest rates are all combining to put earnings and sales pressure on fourth-quarter results for life insurers.

Gene Kimmelman

What they're doing is combining local telephone monopolies from the Rio Grande all the way to the Great Lakes plus California. These are markets that have not been opened to competition.

Avner Gal

Developing the three different technologies was relatively easy. The hard part was combining them into a single device with a single interface and point of communication between them. It took quite a lot of effort to overcome this problem, but eventually we did.

James Williams

Katrina has already had twice the price impact of Ivan on crude oil.

Jason Schenker

I think it is easily conceivable that we could see crude futures hit $70 this week.

Trilby Lundberg

It can't last, ... Wholesale gasoline prices are already responding to the crude oil price hikes, and are on the way up, so a turnaround at the pump can be expected fairly quickly.

Michael Right

It ain't looking good. All the indicators that point toward the ultimate price of gasoline are negative . The only positive indicator is the stocks of crude oil are good.

Gideon Lo

Greenspan said that the U.S. economy had showed resilience despite soaring global crude prices, suggesting that the tolerance level of the U.S economy is much higher.

Andrew Harrington

Having more or less traveled together, refined products and crude have become disconnected in recent weeks.

Ned Riley

I think the price of crude is still dominating the minds of investors.

Mark Pervan

We're now starting to see that demand is steadily improving. There's going to be stronger demand for heating oil and crude futures are starting to reflect that.

Vagit Alekperov

Today, crude oil is sold at the price of the Urals brand, and in terms of quality we have been losing big money. Given the oil directly reaches the final buyer, all that money will stay in Russia.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Tom Baker

has been driven by increased demand for our growing lineup of new game themes, strong gaming operations performance and solid market share growth by our major international subsidiaries.

Spencer Abraham

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

Jeff Garlin

The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.

Carl Herrman

What we would like is that people will demand more. We're hoping to work together again.

Bjorn Hanson

What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent years. This year it will only grow about two and a half percent.

Joe Mauer

Having the first year of going through that and getting to know these guys, that's a lot of information, ... It's not only a physical demand on you, but mentally as well.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Tim Rattay

He rides them, ... He rides those guys hard, and he demands a lot, and it's good. Those guys are responding.

Nadine Velazquez

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.

Michael Raab

Going forward, DaimlerChrysler's fortunes will be driven by Mercedes Benz.

Bill Cowher

He's a special person; he means a lot to this team. He's been very much an inspiration to this team. I think we're driven very much by trying to make this a special year for him.

Mario Gabelli

I think we're going from a market that's driven by momentum and driven by a flow of funds to a stock picker's market. That's going to provide very good opportunities for those that are focused on given areas.

Don Perata

I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven by a date.

Bob Thompson

I watch a lot of sports, and so far that's been what's driven the big-screen phenomenon. It's a status symbol; a lot of people get a lot of pleasure being able to show off this enormous piece of hardware.

Robin Williams

We men are driven to meet Miss Right . . . or at least Miss Right Now.

Bob Venero

He was highly driven and motivated to help the channel.

John Malkovich

I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.

David Cook

Jail overcrowding -- that's what's driving everybody's car.

Mike McCue

Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Bob Wilson

I think it makes people think and realize the hazards of driving and the need to be safe.

Carlos Delgado

I take a lot of pride in getting big hits and driving in big runs.

Detective Legros

He said he was just driving around and needed the money.

Brian Jenkins

He said he was driving on U.S. 250 and said someone ran in front of him.

Spike Milligan

His vibrato sounded like he was driving a tractor over a ploughed field with weights tied to his scrotum.

John Silvia

I think it's just oil and optimism about the New Year. I think oil is the driving factor due to the warmer weather, but people are now looking for better than expected (fourth-quarter) earnings, better than expected retail sales number. There's a host of good numbers out there.

Pete Egan

I think that?s a factor driving that far and trying to get your legs under you. If we can set the tone right away before they get their legs under them that can help us.

Greg Brunner

Just making shots slows (Michigan State) down a little bit. And then we had some silly turnovers that we don't normally have. That just better fuels their offensive aggression.

Gunnar Lindstrom

It (hydrogen fuel cells) needs a major breakthrough in technology.

Ricky Craven

If we come into the race with the idea that we have to do everything we can to save fuel, there will be 36 cautions and fuel will be irrelevant,

Robert Mills

I am losing $2,600 a week on fuel that used to go toward my profit,

David Cummings

He has to be seen to be doing something and I think removing the GST on fuel excise, which is a tax on a tax, is a tangible way to show the Government cares.

Richard Baxter

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Veerappa Moily

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Willie Nelson

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

Hugo Pienaar

International oil prices reached new record highs last week, which do not bode well for local fuel costs.

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.

Robert Brown

We look at it as an alternative renewable fuel. Ideally, we would be able to use it the same way we use gasoline in our engines.

Pat Fagan

I'd like to give you $100 (in gasoline money) for whoever gives you the buses.

Kevin Forbes

Right now our wholesale prices are so high we're going to be sucking in gasoline from everywhere. Which is what we want.

Michael Ervin

Inventories of gasoline are very robust right now.

Michael McNamara

If you take gasoline out, it's still a good number.

David Huether

Clearly, high gasoline prices took quite a toll on the typical consumer.

April Horace

The first quarter was like the perfect storm, where you had Howard Stern, high gasoline prices, and lousy (General Motors) sales.

Mark Pervan

The increase in gasoline supplies could partly be just the release of U.S. strategic reserves being accounted for now.

Steve Hutchinson

He's been thrown into the fire. It was the lowest of the lows. In my rookie year, he was getting booed off the field. Of anybody, I'm proudest of Matt.

John Cislo

We matched West's intensity, but they made the shots. They're good. Taylor didn't miss too many 3s in the first half. We were too low ... we didn't get up in his face.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Warren Zevon

If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.

Sam Cooke

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.

Shlomo Yosef

Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Tetsu Emori

In that case, we'll be in the winter season already. If temperatures in winter time are lower than forecast, then that should be a big problem.

Cindy Hockenberry

If you know your itemized deductions will be more than the standard deduction, you can still just use the standard deduction to get an idea in your mind. This will give you the lowest estimate.

William Karesh

In this situation it had a very low impact,

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.

Nicholas Burns

We are going to ratchet up the pressure step-by-step.

Chuck D.

We try to not put too much pressure on the kids. We treat it like a regular day.

Brian Giles

We've got to put pressure on them, ... They're still three down. I like our chances.

Rick Comley

I think it takes a lot of pressure off of this team.

Retief Goosen

We made the putts at the right time. The pressure was always on them.

Gerald Curtis

He has no agenda, he just has slogans. The pressure to come up with a program of reforms is huge.

Rhianna Pratchett

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

William Vickrey

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

Gary Pearson

We told them, 'You need to get this pumped out now,' and they were not willing to do that 'now.

Jason Caron

I was kind of pumped to play today. I wasn't real aggressive, just doing what I've been doing all week.

Jason Caron

I was kind of pumped to play today, ... I wasn't real aggressive, just doing what I've been doing all week.

Mike DeWine

He was real upbeat and very, very positive. He was trying to pump everyone up.

Gary Johnson

I just primed the pump, and the pump started flowing.

Travis Fisher

I'm not really thinking that they're going to be out, ... It could be a pump fake.

Tom Mitchell

And I wasn't wasting time pumping it up every morning.

Cynthia Rowley

It's still all nude pumps and suntan pantyhose.

Caroline Chantry

It may become burdensome to pump regularly even if a woman has an accommodating employer.

William Beveridge

There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.

Robert Owen

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

Terence McKenna

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Genius is a rising stock market.

Les Dawson

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Elvis Presley

I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.

Louis Sullivan

The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.

Hilaire Belloc

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

Willie Randolph

It could be someone else toward the end of the season who could be the swing guy.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Eric Price

He was out so much before the season started that he got out of shape a little, so his wind wasn't back,

Mike Hargrove

I'd just as soon shut him down after the season is over. He's pitched enough.

Walter Savage Landor

Falsehood is for a season.

Anthony Davis

If you would have told me before the season this would have happened, I would have been a little skeptical,

Kelly Rowan

In the first season, (Kirsten) seemed really together, but there's this undercurrent of 'something's got to be up.' And (last) season you got to see kind of the underbelly of her,

Chris White

I look at the season in two parts,

Jose Guillen

I'm pretty sure if we lost, the season was done.

Chris Mack

He's a linebacker with the basketball. He's so doggone strong for a guard.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Kate Jansen

It has a really strong aftertaste. And it doesn't even look like an Oreo.

Ben Cooper

I will give you my strong support, as I already have.

Randy Thompson

He's going to be strong for us. We just want to make sure we keep him well for district.

Brian Waldron

We can co-exist with soccer, absolutely. They're essentially a summer sport and we're winter. We'll make it work beautifully.

Rob Sheffield

God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.

Richard Paul Evans

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

Russell Baker

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Roger Kahn

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Tyler Perry

Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

Truman Capote

All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.

Truman Capote

Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.

Truman Capote

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

Lewis Black

I'm going to make my transition to weatherman soon,

Vanessa Taylor

They jumped out on us right away. Because of that we weren't able to get into our transition game.

Mark Messier

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

Kenneth Lay

Every market is in transition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

Oswald Spengler

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

Jon Stewart

When you're accustomed to doing stand-up, so often you're the only person onstage and it's all your thing. It's very gladiatorial. Obviously, when you're in a scene with somebody, you're supposed to listen and react - and that's a bit of a transition.

Georg Simmel

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Gavin Bryars

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.