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.

Brigitte Bardot

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Elie Wiesel

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Edward Abbey

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Donald Cargill

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

Don DeLillo

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

Doyle Brunson

May the flop be with you.

Dr. Seuss

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

Bobby Darin

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting

Charles Spurgeon

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Artie Lange

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

Aristotle

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

Dave Mustaine

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

Duncan Sheik

I actually am always a music first person

Anais Nin

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Seth Godin

By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.

Slavoj Zizek

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?