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 .

Yakov Smirnoff

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

Wolfgang Schauble

The significant collapse of oil prices shows that it was previously way too high.

Ronnie Dunn

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

Woody Guthrie

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

Reba McEntire

I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

Gary Blair

Oklahoma played excellent. We played pretty good. We've got to raise our standards a little bit.

N. Scott Momaday

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

Kristin Chenoweth

I love eating at Sonic with my family in Oklahoma. And no, I'm not kidding.

Alan Jackson

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Edna Ferber

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

Paul Lefebvre

I showcased Oklahoma and not the people, unless it was the people who had contributed to the state, but not politicians.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

Robert Duvall

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Wil Wheaton

I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.

William H. Wharton

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

Henry Rollins

Texas is as odd as it is vast.

Jon Meacham

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

Pierre Salinger

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

Molly Ivins

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Molly Ivins

Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.