Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Fleischli

No one wants to pay higher fuel costs and Americans don't want to be told what to do.

Irene Towell

Once we get into kitten season, our costs start to skyrocket again.

Craig Johnson

The more costs Wal-Mart can take out of the system, the more it's able to pass a portion of the cost saved on to the customer in the form of lower prices.

Chu Sik

December's usual inventory write-offs and increased marketing costs led the operating profit margin to fall to 8 pct from 11 pct a quarter earlier.

Jim Higgins

Compensation costs are going up. United has seen to that,

Don Carter

Despite these recent price drops, natural gas prices are higher now than in the past because demand for this most efficient and cleanest-burning fossil fuel has increased while production has not. The natural gas market is extremely volatile, and Elizabethtown Gas will make every effort to hold costs to the lowest reasonable level.

Peter Drucker

A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

Yusuf Mehdi

These new enterprise-class enhancements to the desktop search capabilities we introduced last spring will empower IT professionals to deliver higher productivity, lower IT management costs and greater ease of use throughout their organizations,

R. Halloran

The soft underbelly is the costs. The costs are going up quickly for them. It's troubling.

Robert Jones

As directed in a letter on March 7 demanding payment of wages, arrangements have been made to ensure that all employees are paid wages owed them.

Yusli Yusoff

As petrol prices increase, the global demand for more sustainable energy sources will also rise. Malaysia is the world's largest palm oil producers and palm oil is the world's most traded vegetable oil.

Mirko Mikelic

People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market.

Tom Bentz

Demand is snapping right back. Even with the high prices, there hasn't been that big an impact on demand.

Eivind Reiten

Demand for energy will double in the next decade. Energy supply is fundamental to societal value.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense

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.

Ben Wood

Sony Ericsson's W800 Walkman phone and the K750 are seeing healthy demand in distribution and retail. They are in short supply at retail.

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.

Joe Humasti

Radford had a really good run. He skied really well despite the conditions.

Kenny Tang

Profit-taking dragged the index lower. But funds are still in Hong Kong and are helping support the index despite the pressure on stocks to trade lower after the weak showing of overseas markets.

Al Goldman

Our economy is doing well despite what is going on in Asia, and with any signs of improvement from there, it could be up, up and away for us.

Kent Early

Offensively I was more pleased with her than her pitching. She led off and went 2 for 3. She competed, despite all this (bad weather) that's going on. I'm proud of her. She's a competitor.

Gurinder Kalra

Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

Kenny Tang

Despite the rise, there was consolidation and profit-taking after an eight-day surge.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the rise in oil prices through mid-August, inflation and inflation expectations have eased in recent months,

Alberto Ramos

Despite the recent pickup, total investment spending in the economy is still lower than the level of 2001 and, as a share of GDP...below the 1997-2000 average.

Omar Bongo

The United States, with its efficient technologies for gathering and broadcasting information, has shown that it is vulnerable to fanatical groups.

Bob Peterson

We've got all our engineering together. There are no utility lines under our project and we have found an efficient way to route through the existing pipe system.

Man Wong

We will be a very efficient lunch operation. They can fax me or phone in the order before they arrive. As soon as they sit down, their food is ready. It saves them waiting time.

Johnnie Burton

We implemented a new management strategy that increases efficient use of our internal resources, and in fact allows us to do as many or more audits with fewer auditors.

Christina Baker Kline

There's no question that my son is better prepared for college than I was. He manages his time better, is more efficient and more directed, and spends less time in lines and more time doing exactly what he sets out to do.

Randy Johnson

Throwing 95 (mph) is a luxury for me now. I'd much rather be efficient when I go out there.

Margot Wallstrom

We have not been efficient enough in communicating the EU. We have not invested enough in listening,

Charlie Richardson

We'll make sure that its operating safely, venting properly and as efficient as it can possibly be.

Martin O'Malley

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

Jon Bolin

Randy puts more effort into his game than any player I've worked with. Sometimes he even goes a little overboard with (weightlifting).

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Larry Eustachy

Our effort has been tremendous all year long. They've fought hard all year, and I would think we'll fight hard (today).

Vince Carter

Our effort and our execution were the keys to our victory. If we play like that, we're tough to beat.

Rick Ruffin

Our energy and effort were back tonight, we just had to have a stop to finish the game.

Matt Rabjohn

Our effort was there. You can't fault our effort.

Frank Haith

Our effort was there, and that's all you can hope for is if our guys will have that kind of energy, that kind of effort the rest of the year. You give yourself a chance, and that's what you want.

Brian Lowery

Our effort was pretty good in humid conditions, which makes the legs a little dead. So our times weren't necessarily where we wanted them to be at, but at the same time, we competed and finished hard.

Jason Lawson

Our effort wasn't as good as it could have been. I expect more out of our guys.

Roma Downey

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.

Tim Buckley

Dennis is the heart and soul of our team. We are extremely disappointed for him, however his health and future is important. Time is the major ingredient in his recovery.

Kevin Evans

The staff has been extremely professional and extremely helpful,

Gary Woods

The shrimp love the heat; they do extremely well here.

John Ovink

The Tampa office has always been extremely helpful in emergencies. It shows that immigration has a friendly face.

Harry Groves

The throws were extremely bad. They had the discus, but it was too dangerous, so we didn't even throw. It was one of those days.

Melissa Bane

The suit that Barnes & Noble filed was extremely poorly timed.

Mary Archer

I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to protect it.

Wellington Mara

I wanted a football man. Now I'm extremely happy the way it turned out.

Sylvia Plath

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

Richard Hulbert

It's likely that we will find over 100 individual skeletons. No fossil site in the world has ever been like that.

Lee Iacocca

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

Jan Schakowsky

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

Larry McKibben

We have a real opportunity on renewable fuels to take this to a whole new level in Iowa.

Robert Kiyosaki

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

John Wayne

There's just sand. There's no fuel for it to burn.

Richard Branson

There's obviously ... pressure on yields because of the fuel prices.

Jed Connelly

The timing is good because, while fuel prices have stabilized, it's still on people's minds.

Mark Savage

We had that load in a locked position. It was in a safe condition. The fuel was always in a safe condition. Safety was never compromised.

Fred Smith

We'll take those (surcharges) down if and when there's reduction in fuel costs,

Steve Bryant

We'll take it day by day (after the holiday) and see how the fuel situation looks. (Canceling games) might be a possibility, but hopefully we'll see some relief.

Chris Mennis

The most temperature-sensitive products are the gas and the heating oil and that's what's moving the market.

Debra Moore

The way gas is today, wooh! ... Maybe you should ride the bus.

Ethan Harris

You've had obviously a rise in gasoline prices, which is the visible price in the economy, ... There's (also) a tendency of the public to look at the unemployment rate that actually rose in March, while Wall Street looks at payrolls (which showed a large jump in the number of people working.)

David Carter

The price of gas was still around $2.75 in Murphysboro, and in Carbondale it was $2.99, ... In Carterville it was $3.59, and with my Sam's discount, I'm paying $2.96 before it goes up.

Jeff Lenard

As the price of gas climbs, people's values decline.

Michael Rose

There's still a lot of gas in storage.

Irv DeGraw

What's going on is the market running out of gas at the end of the week.

Robert A. Heinlein

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

Jonathan Field

Right now, my going rate is $30 an hour, and for me to start getting back to where I was, I am going to have to raise it to $45. Right now I am in the red. Gas has a lot to do with it ? it is just so high.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

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.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

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.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

Ally McBeal

Sometimes...when you hold out for everything, you walk away with nothing.

Nykesha Sales

Sometimes in this league you have some weird personalities, and he is the type who doesn't hold his tongue. It could get pretty ugly with players not liking him for the wrong reason.

Sue Trinh

Rates are pretty much on hold for the foreseeable future.

Mike Silver

It was ugly. We didn't play very well, but we did enough at times to do what we needed to do. When we get the lead, we've got to learn to hold onto it.

Kristin Armstrong

It was a long time in the hot seat and I was hopeful that I might hold on,

Rainer Maria Rilke

These soft nights hold me like themselves aloft and I lie without a lover.

Dave Esquer

Thinking of the long season, it's better to hold him out than to risk injury. I don't know if (his absence) was a factor, but obviously not having one of your starters out there can hurt you.

Ed Perlmutter

This is a personal issue because it holds out hope for a lot of people.

Rick Carrillo

This is real big and we couldn't hold everyone in our gym.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Tai Hui

Quality property at the top-end of the market is still pretty scarce,

Mark Goodstein

These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?

O. J. Simpson

The stock market is very jittery because of the hurricane. Any positive news in regards to the storm will push the market up.

Michael Polk

Is it a big market today? Maybe not. Could it be? Perhaps over time.

Tomi Taterka

Things are still very complicated and the market remains nervous and should stay that way for some time.

Desmond Soon

The worry is the shortage of dollars. The market is watching their reserves position.

Jerome Hauer

Nothing indicates that this was anything other than a natural outbreak.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

Bill Cunningham

He's talked about it for months, I think this is the natural progression whether or not he runs for mayor.

Ross Lynch

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!

Michelle Turner

I didn't think homosexuality should be taught as something that is natural or the same as heterosexuality.

Meseret Defar

My speed is natural and I have been training very hard.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Michael Fincke

Space has shown us over the past years that things aren't always what we expect, and that we need to be ready.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Demis Nikolaidis

The work we have done the past two years is now visible and we will play to win.

Jay Shows

This is something we've been working toward since the past year. It's not really much of a change.

Stuart Sternberg

This is the day we pointed to. It's optimistic. It's enthusiastic. It's exciting. Really, on a scale of 1-10 of expectations, it's past a 10. It's just great, just wonderful.

Robert Esche

That's in the past. I don't really want to talk about that.

Jaret Wright

You're going to think about it. Once you're out there, you've got to play the game. Everything is in the past after that.

Brett Favre

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

Aditya Mittal

As our stock price improves, so does the value of the offer.

Andrew Harrington

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

Kristine Fauerbach

The sticker price is not going to shock you.

Al Gore

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Paul Walker

As things stand at the moment, I would have said a realistic rally in the price is up to $500.

Janet Ray

The record price we see today, I believe, is not the end.

Matthew Alexy

Everything is going down: the price of the dollar, the price of stocks, the price of bonds.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Andrew Harrington

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

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.