Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

John Pomfret

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Sushil Koirala

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

Ken Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Lou Mazzucchelli

This was a strong report. Product demand is strong, the management is good. I'm very pleased with this report.

Artur Schnabel

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

Diana Vreeland

All creations demand greenery of spirt. 

Subir Raha

We have received this demand and we are shocked.

Bob Crawford

Dreams do come true, but you have to work for them.

Nicolas Cage

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in the dreams, ... It's nice to finish it off the way I did.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Nido Qubein

This is a turning point for High Point University, ... Mr. Wilson's gift will enable us to fulfill many dreams and heighten our standards to new levels of excellence.

Thomas Jensen

This is not at all how it's supposed to be. We had so many plans for you. We've had so many dreams and now you've gone away.

Andrea Kay

You should always be thinking, What if I lose my job today? Do an inventory of your skills and dreams. Can they be transferred to a new area?

Tracy Morgan

God gave us dreams, but he gave us kids to make all those dreams worthwhile. And when I look at all my kids, I say everything that I've ever went through in my life was worthwhile.

Michael Leunig

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

James Jones

Ross has been really steady for us. He gave us a lot of energy off the bench.

John Ryding

Energy prices do matter, especially to the public's perception of inflation.

Peter Beutel

Every time energy prices triple we have a major recession in 1½ to 2 years.

Taylor Walker

We gave every ounce of our energy and are so, so proud. Winning every year, we have to work 10 times harder to keep moving up and up. But we come back with hard work and dedication.

Barry Trotz

We frustrated them, and they took a lot of poor penalties. We knew their game plan. They wanted to bang, have a lot of energy and come out and prove a point. There wasn't much of a point at the end.

Talmiz Ahmad

We want to participate in Saudi Arabia's refining business. We want their help in meeting our energy requirement --there are crisscross interests involved.

Tony Fadell

You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.

Kenneth Beer

With Rita, everyone is going to have to come off the platforms again. Obviously from a safety standpoint and security standpoint, it's the right thing to do. But with energy prices so high, it's hard to turn off the tap.

Tony Crescenzi

Treasury yields look headed to 5 percent by the May 10 (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting and possibly 5.25 percent by the June 29th.

Fred Hammond

I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Dave Duncan

The way we've played the last three months hasn't been up to our capabilities, ... We have higher expectations with the players we have. We should be performing better.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Jeremy Corbyn

You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.

Susan Meyer

The more options we are able to offer people, the more likely they are to use one of them.

Sam Buttrick

We think it's been done in such a way that it's likely to stick.

Kevin Hassett

There's not really likely to be market panic around the nomination,

Cody Acree

Revenues are likely to be down but that's just normal seasonality,

Yoweri Museveni

I am sure our real vote is likely 75 percent, ... But since we didn't get it, I will take what we saved from the rigging.

John Hurt

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

Sam Hodder

If we don't take this opportunity, it's very likely that we won't get another chance.

Jerry Jones

I feel that we'll likely have a deal.

Peter Marcus

By 6:30 p.m., the number likely rose to 2 million.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Daniel Yergin

The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil.

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Rosa DeLauro

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Thomas Friedman

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Meat Loaf

There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

Matthew Henry

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

Marilyn vos Savant

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Graeme Souness

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Mike Jackson

well within the range of what is realistically possible.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

H. P. Lovecraft

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

Paul Krugman

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