Famous Quotes & Sayings

We will see some run-up in the spring and summer. I wouldn't be surprised to see a swing of 10, 20 or even 30 cents from where prices are at now.

Many people are choosing this winter to replace their older furnace and invest in a high-efficiency furnace. Some of today's furnaces have an efficiency rating of 94.2 percent. That means, for every dollar you spend on gas, nearly 95 cents worth is heating your home. If you furnace is15 to 20 years old, the efficiency could be as low as 65 to 70 percent.

Now, they're making about 70 cents a pound, and most are pleased with that. They're not making a lot of money now, but they're making enough to make a comfortable living and not worry about losing the farm.

I don't think we're going back to 50 cents a pound.

Stephen Moore

For those who are counting, that's a steep four-and-a-half-fold increase in 16 years. When state and local gas levies are included, motorists in many states now pay 40 to 50 cents a gallon. It's hard to say where all the money has gone. Clearly, the nation's roads aren't four and a half times better today than they were 15 years ago. In fact, it seems that there are more watermelon-sized potholes nowadays than ever.

James Mitchell

Go and see the quality of life of the people on the Chiquita plantations. People living in shacks, people living with tin roofs held on by stones and with earthen floors, people working for 20 U.S. cents a day.

James Mitchell

Go and see the quality of life of the people on the Chiquita plantations, ... People living in shacks, people living with tin roofs held on by stones and with earthen floors, people working for 20 U.S. cents a day.

If the high-grade gas commands 20 cents more per gallon, ... he can pocket $200 for selling 1,000 gallons of regular at the higher price.

Joseph Wright

I would be more than willing to pay the extra 10 cents per container with my food to make up for that extra cost.

Larry Ellison

If we had made less than 12 cents in operating income, we would have had to warn. We didn't warn.

If we can get two-thirds of our product development at one-fourth the cost, we come close to cutting our overall costs in half, ... Put another way, if I have 25 cents of every dollar this company takes in to spend on product development, getting more engineers working is how we can develop faster and how we win.

Simple. I grew up a field-worker. My dad made 50 cents a day picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley. I never thought I'd get to teach, never thought I'd get to coach, never thought I'd have an NCAA champion, never thought I'd get to see the world. This university has done more for me than I could ever pay back. But I can do this -- and I want to.

Marilyn Monroe

Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

Most of the time, ethanol-blended fuel is usually a couple of cents or as much as five cents to eight cents less.

may just be a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that 90 cents a share was so much better than expected.

I think everyone knows it's not a huge incremental piece of information when oil's up another 25 cents or so, even when it's near another record.

Local plants have netted most farmers between 10 and 15 cents more a bushel.

Chuck Phillips

We now expect EPS of 15 cents a share, excluding amortization and charges. Our previous consensus level EPS estimate was 55 cents a share.

I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.

Most of the places around town already went up about 20 something cents a gallon so we happened to find this which is still around about $2.50.

I think everybody's looking for gas to drop 20 cents a gallon. It's not going to do that. It's going to slowly go down as things get back to normal.

I don't let the 20 cents or 30 cents really effect me. I'm going, no matter what. I'm putting a lot of money into it.

George Foreman

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

Harold Urey

In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.

Yeah, but it costs 17 cents a bushel to truck the wheat from the field to Collins (the nearest 110-car loader).

The only consolation is that prices in North County tend to run about 3 cents cheaper (than the rest of the county).

Three cents sounds good. We do have a surplus and we should do something about the surplus and this is a way of giving something back to the taxpayers.

Susan Molinari

We have an opportunity in going through our daily lives and sending out letters to our loved ones, or paying bills, to also contribute a few of our cents toward research and finding of a cure for breast cancer.

We're using the new ultra-clean diesel which is 20 cents more a gallon to start, It's worth it for the kids.

We're up 500 percent in bioheat sales over the last heating season, ... Bioheat is working from a pricing standpoint. It's 6 to 8 cents less per gallon than conventional heating oil.

James Hill

Fifty cents of every $4 will go back to the family.

Spencer Tracy

This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?

Chuck Grassley

We need to get the price of wind energy down to 3.5 cents per kilowatt,