Oil Quotes

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.

Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance

We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

Some people find oil. Others don't.

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground.

A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

I take a multivitamin, vitamin D, and omega-3 oils every day, and if I'm stressed or run- down, I bulk up on vitamin C and zinc.

It became clear when I got in my car that Persians are only really good for two things. Oil and hummus.

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.

Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)

Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are right now.

Python - why settle for snake oil when you can have the whole snake?

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

You can behead people, you can crucify them, you can cut their hearts out and eat them on YouTube...but, don't screw with the place where God hid America's oil.

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.