Spill Quotations

That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I get more creeped out than scared and spill popcorn all over the place.

In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer - giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

It would be nice if we didn't have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continental shelf on the west coast of Florida, and it would be a real disaster if we had a major oil spill there. It would be wonderful if we could find some other source of energy.

People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don't have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It's water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine.

No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.

There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.

There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.

We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.

We stopped the source of the spill and have deployed approximately 8,000 feet of boom to contain it. Our main goals are to protect people and the environment, so we're focusing our efforts on safely recovering the oil and minimizing impact to the environment and other businesses in the area. We're responding as aggressively as the weather conditions safely permit. No one has been injured, and we certainly want to keep it that way.

Work plays a significant role in the lives of working families, not only in the amount of time they spend at work but also with their attitudes toward work and how these attitudes and expectations spill over to the home, Overworking is very pervasive, but parents don't have the mechanisms to put the brakes on.

There is beginning to be evidence that high energy prices are starting to spill over into the rest of the economy.

Now the GI recovery patients spill over to the ER rooms. When we're all done, it will be on a different floor. There will be two GI suites, a special procedure suite and 11 recovery rooms, as well as a dedicated nursing staff.

Perhaps the single best piece of economic news in 2005 was that record-high energy prices did not spill over into the rest of the economy. While the Fed can be relaxed about inflationary risks in the U.S. economy, its role is to preempt.

I would be very surprised to see this spill over for a prolonged period of time.

If we fail to reach an agreement here, everything will spill out to the streets.

China A-share market just reopened and we've had a very strong rally, and some of the interest is beginning to spill over into H shares.

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,

Given the damage that just one oil spill could do to a coastal community, it seems to me that undoing the moratorium is just not worth it,

Fortunately we've never had a sewage spill so big, so we don't really have experience to predict with on that.

We can expect to see worse numbers to come. The simple reason is when there is a rise in oil prices that increase in oil price for a particular month does not tend to spill over into the trade deficit until the next month.

What we worry about is that some of the decline in the stock market can spill over and begin to erode confidence. If the stock market takes out Sept. 21 lows, people are going to worry that something's wrong -- I can see the headlines -- and I wonder what that will do to people.

We made the determination in the best interest of Indiana State University for us to be aware of the dynamics of what went on at the party and how it would spill on campus. We asked city police to allow us to take over the investigation.

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Record-high energy prices did not spill over into the rest of the economy.

Some have said that nominees who do not spill their guts about whatever a senator wants to know are hiding something from the American people.

We need somebody to accept responsibility for the damages here. We moved into this house, 14 hours later, we found an oil spill that could cost $100,000 to $300,000 to clean up.

Microsoft is the second-largest company in the world, so when its shares are seeing that kind of surge, it's going to spill over into all kinds of other companies.

You'll spill more on the ground than you'll get to the trough.

We've gotten ahead of ourselves for a couple of months now, ... Right now people are on hold because some of these valuations do look a little high. I think people are just waiting for further confirmation that things are going to spill out into the earnings field.

We can actually work out exactly where they're going, how they're moving, and how this movement is affected by bras. We have videos of women who, particularly if the cup is too low, spill all over the top.

What we have seen over time is a gradual pickup in underlying growth momentum. The strength we were seeing earlier in the year in the export side has started to spill over to investment.

We are looking at a number of treatment possibilities: filtration, ultracentrifuge, which is a big centrifuge to spill out the organisms, ozone and chlorine treatment,

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it.

This spill is such a large magnitude. We have never seen this before. It's pretty bad.

We view this as proof positive that spill helps fish.

We conducted this drill to make sure that our spill response contractor is familiar with the route to the installation. I also wanted to get the response team familiar with the procedures of getting onto the post.

This will be a real shot in the arm for an industry that hasn't been receiving a lot of investment. It's a real boon for business, and that will probably spill over into the attitude for overall investment in Indonesia.

When you don't have that bond, it's difficult to have any structure. You don't have that togetherness you yearn for, you don't want to spill blood, sweat and tears with your teammates. It makes for a much more difficult working environment.

We've noticed that with the 24-7 electronic-technological boom over the last several years, things have really accelerated. The pace of change, the learning curve on the job -- we're seeing some of that stress spill over and have a negative effect on employee attitudes.

Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.

But, of course, we're concerned about any spill scenario.

We were obviously inconsistent. Downers Grove South was a big reason for that. They challenged every cut offensively and those two big guys just limit your shots. To make matters worse, we allowed our offensive troubles to spill over to the defensive end.

What we are experiencing now is the best of all possible worlds, but it is an element of concern for the Federal Reserve that we don't spill over from inflation, moderate as it is, to outright deflation, which could be a very dangerous development.

Even if this spill doesn't get any worse, the damage from it -- and that's of course not sure -- a leading fishing industry executive says that the Christmas season is already ruined by this spill for several thousand fishermen and their families.

(Benefits) spill over into the classroom quickly, ... Especially equipment.

At the moment it seems like a pretty ring-fenced issue and it doesn't look like it's going to spill over into the market at large, but any risk aversion resulting from problems with trading would be dollar negative.

Computers have taken so much drudgery out of it. Just one to mention, painting the picture. It used to be that everything was wet, everything was with a brush. Everything was wiggle it in water, wipe out your brush, get a new jar of paint, spill the paint, mop it up.

Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot

Right now we don't know how big of a spill we have.

Prince William Sound is healthy. It's robust. It's thriving. There are no unanticipated harms that were caused by the spill that would not have been anticipated at the time of the (lawsuit) settlement.

Declines in the real estate activity will probably spill over into consumer confidence and eventually lead to slower spending.

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

That's like saying we can't have privacy laws for telephones to protect the privacy of telephone conversations because that might spill over into other areas,

That's kind of the way our season had been with us struggling in the last minute. But we were resilient. We didn't let the free-throw shooting problems spill over into other areas.

This is home to sea turtles, sperm whales, a number of charismatic species in serious jeopardy. The potential impact of a spill and the speed with which it would be brought to the southeast beaches is extremely alarming.

This is an unprecedented event in terms of devastation and scale. It's not like a spill on a river or a beach; you have small channels, canals, towns, levees. Everything here is complicated . . . and it's not a simple environment to assess damage in.

This is the amount of oil that would spill into the lake in the event of an accident.

This earnings season, instead of getting a ripple effect on positive news, you're seeing that particular company's stock react, but very little spillover, like with IBM today. The negative news has tended to spill over to the rest of that sector, and in some cases, the broader market.

A lot of people are afraid that increases in the PPI will eventually spill over to the CPI but it's important to put things into perspective. The majority of the average cost of goods is from labor and wages are still under pressure,

All preliminary data and test samples collected near the spill site indicated that there was no immediate public health concern.

It looks like the block is ending and warm air will soon spill into the northern Rockies and Plains. It will take longer for the warm weather to make it to the Midwest and Northeast. In about 10 days we may see above-normal temperatures throughout the Northeast.

It makes for an interesting three days. You can have a lot of emotion spill over. Really, it's going to feel like the start of a playoff series, and not that often do you get that situation in our league.

It shows quite clearly that Europe's benefiting from strong global demand, and there are now signs that maybe this is going to spill over into domestic demand.

It's potentially a good thing, if it succeeds in getting the public's attention on books and reading. We would hope some of the benefit would spill over to lesser-known titles.

It's possible that it's nothing but a prank, but also possible that it's more emblematic of a larger problem that the city's high schools are having. Who knows what the motive and thinking of the individuals involved in the spill might be? But it's impossible for me to think that students haven't noticed the quality of education they are receiving and the conditions of the buildings where they are expected to learn and are not frustrated by what they see.

Even with the court-ordered spill we still have plenty of surplus.

That's significant. It's something the Fed will be watching closely to see if that pipeline will spill over into finished goods prices.

That's OK. Just as long as they don't spill any of the beer.

It's clear the upward trend in German orders is still extremely strong. It's still based on foreign demand, but over time that's likely to spill over into domestic demand.

It used to be that a company could hide an oil spill in a distant land. Now the media and activists are quick to pick up and spread the news.

It took me about six months before I could get to where I didn't spill my coffee every time a plane came flying directly overhead.

The sewage spill that took place on the 16th of February is a possible source, but there are also private treatment plants in the area, there are septic tanks in the area, and the area is heavily used by boats.

This is consistent with the idea that slack resources have been taken up in the economy. There is considerable momentum and this is the sort of environment where inflation pressures can spill over and actually cause an increase in the rate of inflation, so it is a bit early for them (the Fed) to lay down their saber.

That sentiment clearly is going to spill over into Imperial Tobacco, despite the fact that (the company has) zero exposure to the U.S. market,

Expanding our portfolio to include the STI technology provides our customers with a new way to reduce their energy consumption and costs. The added benefit of being able to control light output to more accurately light the playing area as well as reducing unnecessary spill light and sky glow, is very compelling for our clients.

Their contention is any spill is a violation.

I kinda float through a nightclub, and that causes people to come up and spill their guts to me.

In higher-risk or more pristine areas, a spill means clean-up is short-term and residual effects are much less.

In 1989, the scientific community was completely unprepared to deal with an oil spill of such magnitude. There wasn't even a local veterinarian on site.

In real terms, all U.S. policy likely comes down to now is making sure the violence in Gaza does not spill over.

I love shopping at Zara or Topshop. I'm not going to go out and spend $1,200 on a Chloe top that I'm probably going to spill something on.

If you spill liquid bronze on the floor, it runs like water. You can't dance away from it n you have to keep going with the pour, even if it burns your boots.

If the liquid benchmarks continue to widen, eventually it will spill over into the less liquid names.

Because the population has such a small number of sexually active males in it, a catastrophic event -- an oil spill, a chemical spill -- could really make a huge difference in the population.

Hong Kong is tracking trends in the Japanese market. The market has had a very good run in the first four months of this year, will the rally spill over to May and June of this year is a very big question.

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

I can confirm it's the largest spill of crude oil on the North Slope that we have record of.

For the most part, we are still a service economy. But I see a lot of new businesses with a need for higher skills moving into the market, and I think that will naturally spill over into other applications and create more need for skilled workers.

These high energy prices are beginning to spill over into the rest of the economy. Finally, airlines are able to raise ticket prices and hotels are able to raise room rates and on and on.

The Europeans are concerned that should China allow more appreciation in the yuan that we could see an acceleration of dollar weakness, and that could spill over into major markets, and we could see European currencies strengthening.

The fossil fuel industry commands outsize sway over U.S. politics, markets, and democracy. I knew these companies were formidable, but when I served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, I got a close up view of how the industry disregards government safeguards.

The current status is we don't know what caused the spill right now. We don't know the size of the spill right now.

The first thing that happened leading up to such a large spill was that at about 6 or 7 in the morning the telephone alarm system crashed and we don't know why. It's operated by the phone company and we are working with them to understand why that happened. The telephone alarm system monitors about 20-plus self-operating pump stations west of the Long Beach Freeway.