Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Thomas Friedman

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

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.

George Packer

Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

George Osborne

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

George Orwell

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

Christopher Buckley

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

Jim Costa

Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

David Cutcliffe

That's probably the one position that has stayed the same the most over that period of time.

Javier Solana

We would like very much to support President Abbas at this period of time. This is what we are going to do today.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Jeff Berliner

The upside to the disk problem was that we recovered the old system to the SAN.

Eric Lyons

Zach and Ryan really didn't have much problem with their opponents,

Ben Feldman

Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in... unless you let me take your problems with me.

Elie Tahari

Don't bring me problems. Bring me solutions.

Roger Rosenblatt

The problem with death is absence

Tony Fadell

It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it's hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.

Tom Holt

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem

Tina Fey

Whatever the problem - be part of the solution

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Colin Wilson

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Dalai Lama

The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.

Dodie Smith

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

Desmond Tutu

Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

Debbie Reynolds

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

Dawn Ostroff

The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Jane Smiley

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

bell hooks

In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

Diana Vreeland

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.