Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brenda Ueland

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.

Jane Hirshfield

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Dennis Kucinich

We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

William Shakespeare

Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

Charlie Crist

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

David Suzuki

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

David Suzuki

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

Chris Chocola

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Chloe Bridges

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

Chinua Achebe

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

Cheryl Strayed

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Bob Brown

Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it...our psychological beings resonate with it.

Bob Beauprez

Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!

Bill McKibben

Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and everything changed. We're reaping the result of that, both ecologically and socially.

We're sort of in an oil price bubble.

Bill Gates

American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.

Bill Gates

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

Bernard Ingham

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year. We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year, ... We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

These two (gas and oil markets) should be doing their own thing. It hasn't been that way of late.

Oil seems to be a tad off today. One of the reasons yesterday sold off so much was having that surge in oil. We're getting a little respite from that this morning.

Oil seems to be a tad off today, ... One of the reasons yesterday sold off so much was having that surge in oil. We're getting a little respite from that this morning.

They have to prove in their results that they can overcome the problems of oil and steel prices. The sentiment has been too optimistic. I don't see much potential.

Jay Nixon

There's not a lot we can do about the big oil companies, refineries and pipelines,

Peter Bergen

We're paying some kind of 'fear premium' for the price of oil right now.

This is unlike Standard Oil or AT&T, where there were physical assets. This is an intellectual property-focused case, so it's about people and software.

Donald Rumsfeld

The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

In terms of any macroeconomic shock, it is all going to come through the oil price.

If Ronald Reagan were here today, he'd say that importing oil must become a vestige of the past.

If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutesstop boring!

Harry Browne

Insurance is meant for extraordinary circumstances. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or gasoline; you have it as protection in case you have a terrible accident or your car is stolen. You don't use homeowners' insurance to pay your electricity and water bills; you have it as protection in case a fire or other catastrophic event produces a large expense. Obviously, any insurance policy that promises to cover every small, ordinary expense is going to be much more expensive than one that covers only extraordinary expenses.

Harold Hamm

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.