Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

The $100 barrel price is very much wishful thinking on Venezuela's part.

We believe the equilibrium price of crude oil has risen from about $20 per barrel during the 1990s to at least $30 during the current decade. The fundamentals are solid for the energy sector. Energy represents 6 percent of the S&P 500 market cap -- in our opinion it should be double-weighted.

Today there is a very thin layer of insulation in the oil market amounting to approximately one million barrels a day, meaning that every small disruption, be it a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico or riots in Nigeria or instability in the Middle East, immediately creates a rise in prices. This situation will be with us for a long time because there is no new spare capacity. Building spare capacity requires an investment of billions of dollars to create infrastructure that may sit idle most of the time. Nobody will invest on those terms,

Kyle Cooper

We've lost 450,000 barrels a day of production, which is significant. Shell hasn't given us much of an idea of when they will be able to restore output. This is a pretty reasonable reaction given that we don't know how long it will be before the production is back to normal.

Charles Schumer

We have more oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve than we've ever had. It's full. And using about 30 or 40 million barrels for a few months to get the prices down will not hurt us strategically,

We're working to put those barrels in place in the shortest time possible

We have all the usual events like bull riding, steer riding and barrel racing. But we also have the camp events, that are just fun, like a Wild Drag Race and Goat Dressing.

When the barrel prices go up, the prices at the gas stations go up. And you know the fuel at the tank was not purchased at the higher price.

You don't burn a barrel of oil. You burn the products that it makes.

We continue to believe that fundamentals of supply and demand will be in play, bringing oil prices down to approximately $35 per barrel by the end of this year, and to $25-30 per barrel in 2005.

Jim Jackson

I'm still in a state of shock. And now we're staring down the barrel of condemnation.

The push-up (in oil) was enough to scare some people with geopolitical unrest overseas, but it's a long day. Sixty-two dollars a barrel is probably the level where you start to see some effects on equities.

I was the only one working at the time. I was changing a tire when the man started cursing. The next thing I knew, he was up on me and I was looking down the barrel of a shotgun. He demanded us to empty our pockets on the ground.

I was evicted from my property by the city of Norwood and Rockwood Partners to build a Crate & Barrel and some rental apartments.

Hideki Matsui

It felt pretty good. I didn't hit it on the barrel but I got a pretty good swing on it. I feel pretty happy in a situation like that, to be able to come through with a hit like that. And it essentially became the difference in the game.

Eric Williams

We provide 50,000 barrels of oil a day to the region and it is unclear how Trinidad and Tobago will fit into this agreement. We have been having cordial discussions with other member states and will continue these discussions at the meeting.

We estimate that 1.8 million barrels per day of consumption must be squeezed out next year through the impacts of higher prices.

Claude Julien

We really scraped the bottom of the barrel with our short bench. We needed a win to make our week a little happier.

We are removing two million barrels a day from the market and we will make it clear that this is the first step to another possible reduction,

On the last at-bat, he threw quite a bit of changeups and a good slider that fell off. On the 3-2 count it was a fastball that got up, and I tried to put the barrel on it and not do too much, and it worked out.

Amy Grant

One of the great things about being older is you can be a sounding board, a good listener. But to be honest, I'd just as soon look down a loaded shotgun barrel than snap my fingers and suddenly be 94 today! Growing old isn't for the the weak at heart. The hardest thing would be to see your body backfire. And the whole wrinkle thing is really odd.

Fundamentally, the prices don't belong at these (mid-20s) levels. This is a $20 a barrel market. The rest is speculative fluff.

If anything is going to trigger an increase in prices down the road, it's $65 a barrel oil.

I expect we can do it by the middle of next year. We can increase by 500,000 barrels quickly if we de-cap the capped oil wells,

Giving people opportunity to taste wines in barrel versus in the bottle.

GM's promotion of E-85 fuel is helping to build the infrastructure needed for the ethanol industry to continue growing and replacing millions of barrels of non-renewable oil. The ethanol industry is committed to meeting the demands of millions of American consumers who want to choose cleaner-burning ethanol.

His timing is great. He's putting the barrel of the bat on the ball. He's laying off tough pitches off the plate.

I think it's going to be the earnings, I see that as probably on everybody's minds this morning. I'm probably more concerned with oil at around $67 a barrel than I am about Japan.

I think it's interesting that on a day when crude oil closes over $50 a barrel for the first time, the market is flying.

We expect to get back to 125,000 barrels per day quickly.

The people here have a tremendous interest in team roping, barrel racing and the youth rodeo.

What I hear from chief information officers from all over the world is that $70 a barrel for oil is having an impact on their business,