Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oil, oil, oil, the price of oil fell back below $60 a barrel after some bearish inventory numbers. That was the catalyst that spurred some buying in the stocks.

Oil below $60 a barrel grabbed folks' attention.

Oil at $75 a barrel implies a lot of geopolitical risks and we're probably getting back to something a little more supply-and-demand oriented, which is healthy for the market.

Mike Matheny

Once we get in here, we start getting ready for the game. Barry is the exact same way. He comes in and gets himself ready. What the fans and what the media make of him as a person, that becomes a distraction. It doesn't influence what I do on the field, so I don't spend much time thinking about it.

Bruce Miller

The money we get from Waterford just barely pays for insurance and officiating costs.

Monica Crowley

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates, Mr. Obama was 'light-skinned' and lacked a 'Negro dialect.'

Jon Daniels

Coco had a good year for us last year. But he had set his own bar so high the year before, that's why some people may have been looking for more.

Detroit's always Detroit, but we're going to have a lot of new faces that weren't there for the rivalry. There's always that little edge going into that barn because of the fans, and there's always a little bit of a hatred.

Willie Roaf

Detroit needs to go sign Barry Sanders for just one more week. It's going to be tough.

Despite this latest boost in confidence, holiday spending will be driven by the bargains consumers have come to expect.

Anymore, people are not inclined to go to a small bar and listen to the blues from 9:30 at night until 1 in the morning especially during the week. Fans are not as likely to go to a local blues joint and stay late anymore.

Sam Rayburn

Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.

I've always liked P.F. Sloan's 'Eve Of Destruction.' It's the performance by the singer, Barry McGuire, and, um, I would say it's also the chord progression and melody.

Scott Smith

I used to go in with my bare hands, but I won't do that anymore.

I've always been for raising the bar for entry into the industry.

I've always enjoyed it as a football fan. But as a market analyst, I always turn to our January barometer .

Max McGee

I waddled in about 7:30 in the morning, and I could barely stand up for the kickoff.

I wanted to go soft in that situation, give him a different look and then get right back to it. But he was feeling good with the cutter. It jammed (Lee) pretty good. I don't think he had a real great swing on it. He just happened to get the barrel on it.

Some travelers are such bargain hunters, ... that if the price is $25 different between Paris and Rome, they change their destination.

Sooner or later, foreigners will stop financing the deficit. But at this point they show no signs of slowing down. If there were trade barriers that caused Americans to buy significantly less imports, production here would go up a little, but the thing that would take the brunt of the reduction is that our spending would go down as prices went up. We would have less of everything.

Technology was way oversold. This is some bargain hunting,

Techs have been underperformers during the month of December, especially the second half, so I think we're seeing some bargain hunting within technology.

Abraham Lincoln

Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

Technically, gold prices could also go higher because all historical barriers have been broken.

Aristotle

Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life

Brandan Wright

Tennessee is on the rise. It's been known for football, but basketball is also very good. I think we set the bar really high.

Chris Coleman

Sometimes when he comes off the pitch, he looks like he's been in a bar brawl with cuts and bruises everywhere, but that's the way he plays.

Seek a sanctuary, Respect it, as it is holy, Walk into it with a bare mind, bare feet and plain clothing, Nurture your body, mind and spirit through a healing ritual, Leave it with a pure heart until you find your way to it again.

Scores have declined the last two years, ... We have got to get kids to take the more rigorous courses and raise the bar for them.

Rubens is not only an excellent driver but he has the experience of building a race and championship winning team and these skills are very important as we work to take BAR Honda to the next level.

Kofi Annan

Sadly, the reality of the international trading system today does not match the rhetoric. Instead of open markets, there are too many barriers that stunt, stifle and starve,

Santa Barbara is a very good team. They are currently ranked No. 10, and more than anything, we will expect them to be really physical. This will be a good opportunity for us to see if we learned and improved upon some things from playing Davis because it will probably be a similar type of game.

Jean Baudrillard

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.