Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gerald R. Ford

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

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.

Jasper Fforde

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

Hillary Clinton

Indeed one streak in our economy, we're missing the big oil companies. We're missing other big energy companies. We're missing the big picture, and I have a record of trying to go at the problems that actually exist, and I will continue to do that.

Herbert Hoover

I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil.

But if the situation changes, we will have to review our oil policies.

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.

Gwyn Morgan

Peter Tertzakian's analysis of world oil is a fascinating reminder that history often foretells the major turning points of the future.

Gwyn Morgan

If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even

Gwyneth Paltrow

I use omega-3 oil. I love light oil on my skin. It's one of my favorite feelings in the world.

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

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.

John Gerard

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.

Marty Meehan

First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

Pete Townshend

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

Pete Domenici

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

Pete Domenici

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

Pete Domenici

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

Plutarch

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

Midge Decter

We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil.

Mother Teresa

It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.

Jim Ramstad

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Ellie Goulding

My hairdresser in the U.K., Adam Reed, has his own line, Percy and Reed, and it's really good. And I use Moroccan Oil and Kerastase as well.

Lady Gaga

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

Karl Rove

We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.

Molly Sims

Fish oil is a great protein for your hair.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Who on earth do the Americans suppose their allies are amongst the Arab world? Even Saudi Arabia they seem to regard as nothing more than a resevoir of oil and money.

Peter Gabriel

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.