Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Stone

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

Ronald Hill

A deficit of only $8.4 billion in fact is not as much of a drag on GDP growth. It keeps things faster and also means that American exports continue to remain competitive in a market where the world is growing generally slower than we are.

Russell Baker

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

John P. Kotter

The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.

Elon Musk

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Ken Kiarash

So if this case, and even many cases like this that are either in court or would potentially be filed in the next several quarters, actually do succeed and Microsoft ends up paying a few billion in damages ... it will have a minimal impact on the company's bottom line.

Chris Warner

PG&E has been paying out tremendous amounts of dollars for power costs to out of state generators and we have undercollected over seven -- nearly seven -- billion dollars compared to what our ratepayers are paying. And for our financial survival, we need simply to be able to finance the costs of that power,

Jeremy Cox

That was a concern of mine (playing zone) because I thought they were great shooters as well. They shot less than 25 percent (from 3-point range), so it worked for us.

Maureen Dunn

Our concern is primarily that it's a safe environment.

Bob Doyle

Our concern is Nicholas' safety and where he is at this time,

Kurt Faust

Our concern is making ourselves a better team. We've had some cracks in the wall, and we want to eliminate those cracks.

Stephanie Green

Our concern is it's already a flood zone, so why would FEMA want to pay the owner of the trailer park so much money a month to house people in a zone that could be flooded again?

Ron Gardenhire

Our concern is, how many guys are we going to have to throw our games? We've got two split-squad games early, and now we're losing another pitcher.

Wendy Gibson

Our concern is for the safety of boaters in New York.

Thomas Streicher

of great concern to us as an agency.

John Hughs

Oil is out there, and any time it rallies, it's a concern to stocks,

Rick Mueller

As long as crude oil is still up in the high $50s, gasoline at the retail pump can't come down too much,

Bob Yawger

To a large degree, it's a result of the oil market. Crude oil is approaching all-time highs here. That should support natural gas.

Dan Vaught

It's very simple. The energy market was up real strongly. That's part of it, as people consistently make the link between crude oil prices, inflation and gold.

Jan Egeland

It is the first, crude way to get food there. It is not, however, a good way to get water and medicine distributed.

Don Bowers

It's all supply and demand. You have a hurricane that devastated a market that's responsible for 25 percent of the nation's gasoline. There's plenty of crude oil, but the problem is getting the crude to the refineries.

Phil Flynn

We had a big spike early last week with crude at a record and the heat in Texas. It shows that even with this huge supply, people are still feeling pretty vulnerable about things like heat and hurricanes.

Michael Lynch

There is plenty of crude oil around, which makes geopolitical problems a lot less pressing.

Gary Ross

There is plenty of crude but this will stoke fears of a supply crunch. There is no doubt prices will go higher.

Simon Wardell

The particular type of oil being lost, light sweet, is much in demand. So we're actually seeing a real impact from the loss of that crude. Having said that, there is actually plenty of crude around. But a lot of it is heavy and sour.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Chuck Jordan

The thing that separates him from a lot of linemen is his mobility. He's got real good feet for a tall guy.

Daniel Kerr

Now I've got 3 feet of water, so I can't plant.

Ben Crenshaw

But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.

Richard G. Scott

Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.

E. B. White

Don't put your feet on the table, ... You know better.

Phil Boyer

Enough is enough. What does one mile around his house and 1,500 feet do anyway? It is just nonsense.

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.

Alice Cooper

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

Andy Partridge

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

Michael Rose

There's still a lot of gas in storage.

Robert A. Heinlein

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

River Phoenix

I remember we'd roll into gas stations in our beat-up van and I'd tell the attendant, 'I'm going to be an actor!

Bill Engvall

Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I swear he said, Tire go flat? I couldn't resist. Said, Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here's your sign.

Bill Richardson

We do think prices will go up a little bit, but in the end we do think gasoline prices will stabilize,

E. O. Wilson

I think we kind of ran out of gas at the end.

Erica Garcia

The gas does have a lot to do with it, but we're hear to learn real excited, hope to be on the road soon, I want to be one of those girl's on a bike.

Jerry Lucia

You can shut a valve off as tight as you think it can be, but when they're old like that, you don't always know for sure. I would say the gas line is at least 50 years old.

Barney Bishop

It's not a short-term answer, it's a long-term answer. It would help over the long term to stabilize (prices) for natural gas and oil.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Benito Mussolini

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

Bryant H. McGill

When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Charles Colson

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

Jane Austen

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Renee Fleming

I'm not a reactionary.

John Street

I don't think he had an idea that all of this would result from it,

Mr Bush

Ahmadi-Nejad is a result of all this appeasement,

Pat Barker

The result was I went nowhere.

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Charles Baudelaire

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

Izzat Ibrahim

This result is real, whether some like it or not.

Hermann Maier

To score a Top-3 result will not be so easy. I'm skiing better on soft snow now than in the past, but other racers do it better than me.

Brad Williams

Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.

Russell Dynes

We really haven't had a situation like this.

Ice Cube

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. You have to get it out in the open. You have to talk about it.

Tracy McGrady

I know I have to keep up my image. It's all about how you handle the situation.

Jose Vidro

I haven't had an MRI yet, so I don't know what the situation is.

Bobby Bowden

This is one of those situations where we don't have a lot of experience. But they sure are talented.