Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Davies

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

Rosa DeLauro

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

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.

Peter DeFazio

There is no free market in oil.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

Michio Kaku

Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.

Michio Kaku

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Maeve Binchy

I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.

William Scranton

The public schools, trade schools and research schools, these are the coal mines of the 21st century,

Seth Godin

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

Mark Harmon

But at the same time, it is a lovely place to work. I never lose perspective. You want to talk about hard work, let's talk about working in a coal mine.

E. Helm

He worked so hard so I wouldn't have to set foot in a coal mine.

Gerhard Schroeder

Such a coalition is completely out of the question,

Bruce Nilles

Whatever problem we are trying to fix, a lot of it is attributable to coal plants.

Sanjaasuren Oyun

It was more or less a grand coalition up till now.

Kelly Ward

This is to prove to us that you are volunteers working with the coalition forces,

E. Helm

People are looking at everything from coal to uranium to oil and natural gas. When you include wind and ethanol, things look even better.

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

Veronique Keyser

The death of millions of Jews, homosexuals, Roma, is in no way comparable to cartoons or the burning of flags. We cannot talk to you if you deal with this in this manner.

Rip Hamilton

You know you're doing it right when you feel burning in your hips and nothing in your groin. It gets my hips and my groin all on one page. I had groin trouble early in my career. I was using too much of my groin because my hips were tight.

Sylvia Plath

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

Theodore Roosevelt

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

Wilferd Peterson

Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.

John Tierney

Someone needs to rescue France from its self-proclaimed malaise. Close to a quarter of its young people are unemployed, but they're too busy burning cars to look for jobs.

Sydney Smith

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble