Oil Quotes - Page 42

Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development

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

Dead or not, you must be bored with women telling you how you look like the hottest, most exotic wet dream they’ve ever had. No wonder the thought of you, grapes, and some scented massage oils crossed my mind – and if you drop that towel again, I’m going to need a cold shower.

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.

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

We once installed a $1.49 trap in a woman's toilet and she never had ghost problems again.

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

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

Spoilt is a euphemism for loved.

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

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

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

Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.

Really. I'd love to be spoiled on by others.

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

Very little makes me feel vulnerable these days. I hit my absolute apex of vulnerability when I returned to my home state of Louisiana, during the Gulf oil spill disaster, and witnessed mass devastation to every demonstration of life surrounding me - from grass, trees, bayous, insects, to animals and people - we all felt demolished.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

We also exchange oil for software technology. Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade. We believe in fair trade and exchange, not competition but cooperation. I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

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

Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.

O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!