Rig Quotations

I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by the MTV artists of the '80s and started putting on 'shows' in the apartment, most of them set to Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album. In my mind, there was a full lighting rig behind me... but it was just a couch.

By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies.

Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them.

When it comes to the form the narrative will take, whether first person, third person, or Aunt Grace's cat, I usually find that the story tells me which voice it prefers, and that often changes as I go along. And in the end it really doesn't matter as long as the author can rig those voices all in harness to pull the same load.

I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.

We are pleased that we obtained a rig and drilled this initial well with no problems. Should this well be productive in commercial quantities, we will exercise our option to obtain a 100% working interest in approximately 7,600 acres in this prospect.

This project has previously been delayed based upon rig availability but we are now excited that we have a rig secured and should begin drilling within the next thirty days. If successful, this project matches our goals of producing cash flow and enhancing shareholder value.

We've never experienced the amount of damage to the rig fleet we've experienced from these two storms.

Rig availability is a bigger issue for them.

Based on what we have right now, it appears that drilling contractors and rig owners took a big hit from Rita, Rita came to the west where there is a lot of (exploratory) rig activity.

China Black Oil Well Services moved a work-over rig on the leasehold and began working today. We hope to have several more wells producing oil in commercial quantities in the next sixty (60) days.

Given the damage that just one oil spill or wrecked rig could do to shore communities that are heavily dependent on clean beach and ocean environments, it seems to me that undoing coastal moratoria is simply not worth it,

If a guy called up (partners) Joe Roper or Tom Brown and said, 'I need a rig on location next Monday,' it would be there.

L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.

It is apparent that few used pumping units are available in the oil patch. This leads to a pumping unit demand that outstrips that expected from the analysis of rig counts and wells completed.

Over the years, I don't know how I did it and didn't hurt anybody. I drove a big rig snorting coke and smoking dope; I drove my kids around smoking dope; I would drive through our neighborhood drunk and stoned with my kids out there playing.

Rip Rig & Panic was a milestone for me, and I've always been really thankful that I did that when I was 16. It saved me for when I suddenly became really successful later on. So even when my head's been spinning like a banshee, my feet still feel held down to the ground.

You can have a network of 20 or 30 clubs across different continents, all of which have a corrupt element. It sounds a bit like science fiction. It would involve agents, owners, sponsors. ... They would not just rig the results of one or two games, but 15 matches or a series of results.

We have confirmed at least 20 rigs or platforms missing, either sunk or adrift, and one confirmed fire where a rig was,

This rig is obviously a lemon, and to keep putting it back in service is not doing the public any good, any help.

We've decided to reject the two new commissioners who have been appointed to execute the government's ploy to rig votes in the next general election.

We will be aggressive in exploration, but it depends on rig supply.

We were out there in the Southern Ocean, feeling very insignificant in a big part of the planet, ... At any minute, another storm would sweep in. We hatched a plan: Spike and I would climb up and jury-rig the fitting. As we started the climb, I told the crew that they must helm the yacht very carefully on the opposite tack, as the rigging was only holding up one side of the mast. If the helmsman made a mistake while we were up on the mast, we'd crash down over the side with the entire rig on top of us.

used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the election and distort the results.

Every resident of Malibu should be horrified about the BHP Billiton oil and gas rig in the Gulf of Mexico that was lost during Hurricane Rita, ... Not only did the supposed foolproof precautions taken by BHP Billiton fail, but according to their own spokesperson, they do not even know why they failed.

CUF has reason to believe the governments of Zanzibar and Tanzania are planning to rig or to spoil the election in Zanzibar using the security forces.

The rig is operating 24 hours per day, seven days per week, until we get down to our total depth.

These were sold as safe systems. They passed tests as safe systems. But?there is a way to rig an election. It's not a bunch of guys stuffing ballots in a precinct. It's possibly one person acting in secret changing thousands of votes in a second.

That's what we do - when they call us, we go, ... We all have a bag sitting in our locker, shoved with clothes. We got in the rig and we were out of town in less than 30 minutes.

You're in the back of a rig bouncing up and down. It was easy to get a needle stick.

This is an unfortunate sequence of events but also part of the business. Rig failures do occur at times and are out of our control, we don't know at this point how long the delay will be until we resume drilling operations but we are not expecting it to be too long. The positive news here is that the logs show us encouraging evidence that we are in a good reservoir that needs to be exploited and we plan on doing so once this issue is resolved.

They're very organized and the equipment moves in a hurry. They may hit a rig here and the equipment ends up in Houston.

There's a ham rig on the ISS, and the astronauts love talking to students when they pass over schools.

They're massive. They're about six, seven feet tall and about 31 inches deep. It's an active rig so the amps come up to about six feet. You can give them as much as you want and you're not going to kill them at all.

They have no clue. They don't realize that that 80,000 pound rig cannot stop in 20 to 25 feet. They don't realize it takes a few hundred feet to stop.

Stoddard, while passing a slower moving truck to the left, failed to yield the right of way to an oncoming tractor trailer rig hauling dirt.

The authorities in Belgrade used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the election and distort the results, ... In so doing, they have fooled no one. Milosevic has been repudiated and claims by his regime to the contrary are laughable.

I've heard that if you rig the numbers in the beginning, you won't have to do a recount.

In 1969, Hurricane Camille produced a 44-foot wave by an oil rig near the storm's center,

In too many countries, leaders speak of democracy, yet rig elections, suppress dissent, and shackle the press.

High oil prices are kind of benefiting Singapore in a way. We're seeing some increase in the order books of all these companies, the oil rig manufacturers.

This is natural further step in our growth strategy. Having built a large portfolio of development and exploration opportunities and secured drilling rig capacity through our contract with Dolphin AS, we have now secured the necessary funding to adequately finance our planned projects.