Oil Quotes

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

If you go into the Ecuadorian Amazon and you stick your hand in the ground, what you get is oil sludge. The oil companies continue doing whatever they please.

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US gallons) of oil a day.

The Palestinians don't have oil. If they were the Saudis, they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But they have the power of being able to upset the imperial order in the Middle East.

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

There is no free market in oil.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]

India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.

In Nigeria, financial services, telecoms, and entertainment have driven growth more than oil.

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have.

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.

American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.