Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Youkilis

The only time it hurt was when I hit it off the end of the bat. It doesn't matter if you have 10 broken fingers ... it's going to hurt off the end of the bat. It's a little discomforting with the grip of the bat, but I have to just keep taking good cuts. Whole trick in baseball is to barrel it up. If I can do that, I'll feel good.

The organization is now producing 2 million barrels a day over its official production ceiling of 28 million b/d.

What is in a barrel will not go sour.

There has been a rising floor underneath oil prices, ... Last year we were worried about $40 a barrel oil, and now $60 a barrel is the worry.

There is a consensus with the member countries to maintain the current quota as there is enough oil in the market. I expect a barrel at US$50 at least for the second quarter of the year.

We think this site is much larger than just the holes that they are digging right now, and that it probably extends up and down Newell Street. ... There could be huge amounts of barrels and maybe even capacitors and transformers under the ground.

We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.

Dennis Johnson

We consume about 20 million barrels a day in the U.S., so this is about 2 percent of daily usage.

Claude Mandil

We have 4 billion barrels in strategic stocks.

To get to those last few barrels out there is more expensive than the easy ones. They're all looking for the giant fields because mature fields are declining.

He reaches into my holster and pulls my gun out. I'm looking in the barrel of my own gun - he's got it in both hands one foot away from my stomach.

Our decision is in place, up until now we will still increase by 500,000 barrels a day from August. This decision is still valid.

The move up in crude oil price from $12 a barrel to nearly $31 a barrel has been really positive for oil stocks, ... The Fund that we manage has responded well to that. Every time oil prices fluctuate - retreating, and then moving back up --- that helps oil stocks.

The oil prices will break through 80 U.S. dollars per barrel recently.

Oil prices are high at $30 a barrel. The U.S. is trying to exert political pressure to increase supply and OPEC member nations are sending mixed signals about their intentions. We have a very volatile market here. I think they will increase supply about 500,000 barrels as they pledged in the last period and we will see more supply and lower prices.

Oil, oil, oil, the price of oil fell back below $US60 a barrel after some bearish inventory numbers. That was the catalyst that spurred some buying in the stocks.

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.

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.

Abraham Lincoln

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

It was a little cutter that was up and out over the plate. I just tried to get the barrel on it and put it into play.

A year ago we thought $70 (for a barrel of oil) would be the death knell for consumers. It wasn't.

As long as the prospect of sanctioning 4 million barrels per day of Iranian oil is out there, the Iranian situation, in our view, will be the front and center issue that will command market attention.

There isn't the spare capacity to make up for the missing production in the Gulf of Mexico. OPEC used to have 4 to 5 million barrels of spare capacity. That's down to about 1.5 million barrels a day this year.

As a unit we have to try and find ways to make things come together. We try to have fundraisers and whatever money we raise, we save because every penny counts. We seem to always be scrapping the bottom of the barrel but the bottom line is that we want to make sure that we represent the country well, competing internationally.

They make oil and they own oil, and the price of oil has gone up. Every barrel of oil they make is worth more.

They are extracting 500,000 barrels per day, but plan on reaching 2 million barrels in 2008.

This move will not solve the real problem - the oil cannot be refined. Even before the loss of 1.8 million barrels per day of output refineries were struggling to keep up with demand. So increasing the crude supply will not overcome this bottleneck.

I can only say we've got 1,335 barrels of liquid, and I can't tell you how is much is oil and water.

Crude stocks fell by 0.749 million barrels per day, which disappointed some traders who were looking for the SPR releases to have a positive impact on inventories.

Crude stocks are misleading. Yes, they are the highest since 1999 but keep in mind that we are now producing 1 million barrels a day less in the U.S. and refinery runs are up by 1.2 million barrels a day. In that context crude stocks are not high.

Crude stocks are expected to have fallen by 600,000 barrels over the week while distillate stocks are expected to be up by 1.7 million barrels.