Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Ferguson

Sarah Palin is speaking out about the oil spill. She said, I'm not kidding, we should ask the Dutch for help with the spill because the Dutch have the world's best dikes. So let me get this straight. It is OK to cover lesbians in oil but you just can't let them get married.

Armand Hammer

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's...

Armie Hammer

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Water will be more important than oil this century

Sydney Smith

You will find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence.

Ed Markey

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Dizzy Dean

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

To produce this oil efficiently and quickly, you need people who've done it before.

Ahmed Chalabi

American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil,

Dick Cheney

Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

Dick Cheney

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

We're long on autos, short on oil stocks.

We still have a lot of oil in the water.

Alexander Theroux

The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.

George W. Bush

When will oil start running out? Experts: now or 30 years away.

Adolf Galland

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

Jesse Jackson

We're not going to have an oil war.

You do know you've got a vehicle down there, so you know there's oil and gasoline.

Alfred Marshall

I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata.

Abbie Cornish

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

Jared Bernstein

What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

I am telling the oil sector that it must provide strong and intelligent responses,

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Carol Browner

There could be oil coming up until August.

Al Gore

The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.

Al Gore

The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.

Al Gore

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

Bono

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

Anzia Yezierska

Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

Conan O'Brien

A Saudi Arabian prince has said that oil may never again rise above $100 a barrel. He said it's gotten so bad he can't afford to buy his wife her own car that she's not allowed to drive.

We shouldn't have oil in the Hackensack if the permit was doing its job.