Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

Barack Obama now says he is open to offshore oil drilling. So, apparently, when he promised change, he was talking about his mind.

Jay Leno

American forces in Iraq found $650 million in American cash sealed in a hidden cottage. See, this is why President Bush wants to invade Iraq, the whole place is oil and cash. It's like Republican Disneyland.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

Milton Friedman

It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.

For oil markets, it's all about the weather.

Ilka Chase

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

J. Paul Getty

Some people find oil. Others don't.

J. Paul Getty

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

Ivan Krastev

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

George Herbert

Truth and oyle are ever above. [Truth and oil are ever above.]

Gary Kovacs

The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.

Jerry Brown

Were I to stop oil production, we`d have to import it from Iraq and from Caracas, Venezuela or from North Dakota where the environmental standards are much lower, on trains that have already proven themselves unsafe, or by more ships that are causing significant pollution in the world. It`s just really dumb.

Jerry Brown

California is the third largest oil producer. More importantly, California burns more oil, consumes more oil than any state or collection of states in America.

Jerry Brown

I understand we have to keep a significant amount of fossil fuel in the ground. I`m committed to that. But I`m not going to just all of a sudden try to stop the cars of California or to increase dramatically the number of ships carrying oil into the state when we already have our own production.

Francis Quarles

When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess thyself with true fear; when the devil brings thee oil, bring thou vinegar. The way to be safe is never to be secure.

Hunter S. Thompson

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

Neale Donald Walsch

You take your car in for checkups more than you take your body in for checkups. And you change the oil in your car more than you change some of your habits, and some of the things you're putting into your body. So, for heaven's sake, take better care of your body.

Mike Love

I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.

Jimmy Carter

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

James Surowiecki

The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.

Emeril Lagasse

Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.

Hassanal Bolkiah

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

Henry Paulson

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

Olusegun Obasanjo

We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

Michael Moore

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

Michio Kaku

Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.

Michio Kaku

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Markwayne Mullin

You can't have oil without oil spills.

James Lovelock

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

James Lovelock

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.