Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Sarah Palin

Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

Rodrigo Rato

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Veerappa Moily

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

Van Jones

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

Rodney Dangerfield

People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon .

Tracey Emin

The wheel that squeaks gets the oil.

Wade Davis

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel

William Robertson Smith

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

P. G. Wodehouse

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

Terry Tempest Williams

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

Madeleine L'Engle

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Henrik Ibsen

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

Carl Sagan

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

Carl Sagan

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Paul Friel

He's drilling him with all kinds of questions.

Jeff Goodell

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Robert Adair

The next few months should prove very interesting with the drilling programme about to start in Bulgaria. In Egypt, I am excited about the El Tamad oil discovery.

Chris Zwettler

They were drilling us. We clamped down in the third quarter. The press helped us pick up our energy level.

Nick Davis

There was no drilling involved because it was above- ground. Most of the guys would not even qualify for 250 straight days.

Elmore Lockley

The prices have gone down because the prices we purchase natural gas have gone down. There also has been increased drilling and increases in storage capacity.

Arthur Mitchell

But it's being abused by the oil lobby and proponents of drilling to try to get the legislation through a back door.

Russ Halverson

Because we've been drilling, drilling and drilling them (in practice), there's only so much you can do.

Travis DeWalt

I don't think there's a day that goes by that we don't talk about his situation. When he's drilling in the room, he's not drilling moves. He's wrestling a state tournament match every day in the room.