Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyndon B. Johnson

There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

Gail Carriger

It'll all end in tears and oil.

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.

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.

John Hoeven

The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.

Edgar Allan Poe

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

Edvard Munch

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

The oil question is as much geopolitical as scientific.

The oil prices are really a bugaboo on the market.

Even her oil paintings aren't ordinary by any means.

Jamie Court

This is a staggering profit and proof that we are being gouged by the oil industry.

Gordon Brown

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

Gordon Brown

I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.

Herman Cain

If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.

Jeremy Grantham

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

Gore Vidal

Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.

Gina McCarthy

States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.

Jeff Bingaman

I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

Jerry Pournelle

...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.

Jerome K. Jerome

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

Jim Elliot

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

James Buchan

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

James Buchan

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

Christopher Hitchens

It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque.

Frank Murkowski

Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.

Christopher Flavin

Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing to a decline in oil consumption in the United States in particular starting in 2006... The 93 billion liters of biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68 billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5 percent of world gasoline production.

Christopher Flavin

The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.

Christopher Dodd

As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.