Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greenspan is trying to be cautious by tapping the brakes ever so lightly, which I think will mean another quarter-point increase soon. This thing has so much momentum that, even though we've raised the speed limit, we're still going a little too fast.

What we have here is a dangerous mix of fast-growing debt and fast-rising unemployment that could quickly put the brakes on consumer spending.

Here at build-out, we've got to put the brakes on.

It is a challenging place to start the year because the circuit is probably the hardest for brakes of the whole season. The circuit is surrounded by sand and it can also get very hot, which can pose problems with the cooling of a new car. So reliability will be key, especially with this year's switch to (2,4-litre) V8 engines.

Robert Heller

What is called for at the present time is prudence in fiscal policy and a continued application of the brakes in Federal Reserve policy. That's the policy that will get us into a future that where we see continued growth and very moderate inflation.

Joe Nemechek

I think a tire was going down on Hamlin's car. He slammed on the brakes and I ran into him hard and smashed in my grille pretty good. That made the car real tight for the rest of the race.

He doesn't have to win the whole game by himself. The offense like a finely-built car. The steering wheel's have to work, the brakes have to work, the wheels have to work. He's sitting in the driver's seat. He just has to drive the car and let everything work for him.

Robby Gordon

He got away because he stabbed the brakes then took off. He's a great racer, but second is just first loser.

Reducing the weight of the race cars makes it a lot easier for the tires to work, makes it easier on the brakes and just makes the car overall much better for racing.

In a flash, people ran from his left to his right. He hit the brakes as fast as he could ... and tragically these people were killed.

Canadian consumer spending is finally poised to hit the brakes after a spectacular run earlier this year,

Ryan Newman

I locked the brakes up and got into the wall, but there was no way to miss the crash. It's typical Phoenix off Turn 4. When one car gets spun, everybody does.

Elliott Sadler

I just got on the brakes way too hard and locked it up. I could have just sat there and rode third and thought that was cool, but I want to give my guys a win.

Petter Solberg

I'm quite happy actually. The car feels good and we have improved many things. We lost maybe seven seconds towards the end of the first stage as it was hard on the brakes and they seemed to go off. However they seemed fine by the next stage.

I had my Class B license but had to go back and be certified in power brakes and driving with passengers.

The Fed now has limited leverage over the housing market. It has been unable to tap the brakes on the housing market.

Jay Watson

It's clear that there will always be roads in national forests. But it is a welcome change that the forest service has put the brakes on what has been a massive road-building system. Any new road building will have to meet rigorous testing and that's a positive change.

They've released the brakes on the Kyoto process.

Steven Barnes

It was like trying to drive in the Indy 500 with your brakes on. You burn up.

It looks like the brakes locked up, and he slid under the pickup truck.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective.

Mel Gibson

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

The lead up to the Fed meeting was that we are going to be done soon, they are going to put the brakes on, and that fueled the momentum. But now people are realizing that they aren't done yet, and that's shifted the psychology.

It?s a great car, easy on brakes and tires. It?s extremely surprising.

Jamie McMurray

This is the hardest place, I think, to qualify because you can have a good car and it's so easy to lock the front brakes up or overdrive the corner. It's one of those places where you can be in the top five in practice and qualify 20th. It's so close.

With those long straights and tight corners, Martinsville is a tough track on the brakes and the motors. It really puts a lot of it on the driver too because it is so mentally exhausting to go run around for 500 laps on those tight turns. We had a good run going in the spring here before we were wrecked, and Kurt has taken the car to victory lane here before. We all know he knows how to run short tracks, so we'll see if he can keep the fenders clean and get a good finish.

David Lereah

The slowdown amounts to a tapping of the brakes on a hot market.

Then all of a sudden brakes get slammed on. Then we hit something and go off the side of the road and tip over,

After about 35 laps, the tires and brakes started to go. We're lucky we lasted as long as we did.

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

Current conditions in the euro zone are looking quite healthy, and that is bullish for the euro. For the time being, this puts the brakes on euro weakness.

We wanted to put too many cars on the wrong freeway. The system put the brakes on.

As soon as she hit the curb, she panicked. She misapplied hitting the brakes and hit the accelerator.