Famous Quotes & Sayings

If something is wrong, it is like locking the barn door after the horse is stolen, ... But we are still going to pursue it. I want to know what they bought with the money.

Del Shannon

If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like Disneyland, I'll just do mainly hits. That's what they want to hear. I don't want to bore people. If I wanted that much to play nothing but 12 new songs, then I should go do it in a bar somewhere for peanuts.

Ruth Rendell

I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.

We are trying and we continue to try. We have increased oil production to over 10 million barrels a day.

We played pretty well in spurts. It was a game of spurts, and I guess our last spurt was just barely good enough to win.

Mark Johnson

Well, we've been pretty consistent with our statements and what we want to do as a group, and that gets better each weekend. We've certainly made some strides in the early part of September to where we are now, but now it's time to elevate the bar a little bit more. The team has done some real nice things up to this point, and we've won a lot of hockey games, but now you got to keep watering it and put a little fertilizer on it and grow with it.

George W. Bush

We must work together in the Doha (WTO) negotiations to eliminate agricultural subsidies that distort trade and stunt development, and to eliminate tariffs and other barriers to open markets for farmers around the world,

We believe this move undermines the integrity of the collective bargaining process and denies IAM-represented employees the right to exercise their vote,

John Gage

We had hoped that Judge Collyer's decision would bring all parties involved to the bargaining table.

We had a lot of close goals that barred out so we've been working on shooting a lot. So those opportunities we can put away this time.

Lara Spencer

It's not a bargain if it has bedbugs.

Kurt Braunohler

All the great game show hosts have a signature 'look,' from Bob Barker's year-round Brazil Nut-hued tan to Monty Hall's oversized lamb chop sideburns. As the host of IFC's new comedy game show 'Bunk,' I, too, have worked to develop a style signature by being the first man or woman in TV history to host every show in my bare feet!

Kurt Eichenwald

By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.

Kyrsten Sinema

I have great respect for Sandra Day O'Connor. She has broken so many barriers for women in the law, and was a master negotiator and pragmatist in her days on the Supreme Court.

John Wycliffe

Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.

We're going after the full 650 million corporate e-mail in-boxes. We want to knock down the barriers to mobilizing the entire corporate e-mail market.

We're setting the bar high, but we think we need to do that.

We're competing now. (The seniors) are trying to set the bar as high as we can,

Robert Reich

During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced.

Malcolm McDowell

You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

Marc Faber

The Federal Reserve - all of them - could be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, and then pouring gasoline on top of it, and then light a cigar with matches, throw the match into the gasoline, and then not notice that there is any danger.

We're not chasing new barrels through wildcatting. But we are chasing more of the discovered barrels.

Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing

Light sweet crude is over $45 a barrel now, and that's a big drag on various parts of the economy. I think at some point, the price of oil falls and that sets off a rally in the market.

Let me underscore that the U.S. will not enter into dialogue in response to threats or broken commitments and we will not bargain or offer inducement for North Korea to live up to the treaties and commitments it has signed.

Piper Perabo

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

Larry Coker

LSU met their part of the bargain and we didn't.

Waylon Jennings

Mainly what I learned from Buddy, ... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

Don Knotts

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

Making bottles to meet Americans' demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 U.S. cars for a year.

Ben Folds

Life barrels on like a runaway train where the passengers change, they don't change anything, you get off someone else can get on.

Lowering the bar creates a novel theory of impeachment, ... It would permanently weaken the presidency.

Losing to Columbia and barely beating a few other Ivy teams is unacceptable, so we are all a little upset with the finish. Still, the scores were bunched and we were only 12 shots out of first, so it's not like we are too far off.