Oil Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Oil
Oil Quotes & Sayings
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Oil is a very important component of economic growth.
— Maria Bartiromo
Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.
— Anzia Yezierska
We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.
— Erik Naggum
Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
— Henry A. Kissinger
I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't.
— David Letterman
I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start?
— Rush Limbaugh
The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.
— Les Dawson
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
— Dustin Hoffman
Until you change the way money works, you change nothing.
— Michael Ruppert
Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
— Vinod Khosla
I think attempting to sell people an easy fix for pain is the worst kind of snake oil.
— Brene Brown
The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.
— James Lee Burke
Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found.
— L. E. J. Brouwer
The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.
— Annie Jacobsen
We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
— Abdallah Salem El-Badri
I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.
— Dick Gephardt
In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.
— Paul Gillmor
To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.
— Bob Kane
People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
— Gary Wolf
A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.
— Sarah Palin
I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.
— Alice Temperley
In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV).
— Gary Chapman
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
— John F. Carlsons
Whaling was the oil business of its day.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
The flesh of her butt jiggled like water-filled beach balls, oil drops dangling from a soupspoon, oversized Jell-O dessert cups.
— Dennis Vickers
My hairdresser in the U.K., Adam Reed, has his own line, Percy and Reed, and it's really good. And I use Moroccan Oil and Kerastase as well.
— Ellie Goulding
We have a lamp inside us. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.
— Michael Lomenda
When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world.
— Harry Reid
It rolled over you like old oil from a fryer.
— Ilona Andrews
I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil embargo on Iranian oil.
— Claude Mandil
The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.
— Jimmy Carter
I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.
— William Shakespeare
Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.
— Jeremy Grantham
I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.
— Carly Fiorina
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.
— Anthony Bourdain
Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.
— Christopher Hitchens
Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.
— Emeril Lagasse
There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.
— Camille Flammarion
What the hell did we do to deserve this?
— Tony Hayward
There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
— Charles Saatchi
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
— John Betjeman
Beijing? Freedom? Oil and water.
— Victor Robert Lee
They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.
— Billy Nungesser
Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.
— David Dixon
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Texas's main exports are cotton, oil, and preachers.
— Sam Torode
Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.
— Richard Pombo
Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry.
— Stephen Kinzer
Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.
— Susan Rice
And oil's not supposed to mix with water. But then someone invented mayonnaise, and wham - instant mixing.
— Jackie Kessler
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.
— Nelson Shanks
Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil.
— Donella Meadows
Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats
— Honore De Balzac
The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.
— Ahmed Zaki Yamani
I put a drop of lavender essential oil on my pillow before I go to sleep.
— Melissa Joan Hart
The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.
— James Lovelock
There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
— Sam Richards
I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.
— Dolly Parton
The day that we've been fearing is upon us.
— Bobby Jindal
Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.
— Alexandra Paul
A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.
— Jane McGonigal
Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem ... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on crude oil.
— Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.
— Charles Dickens
The perfumes of lords and ladies tickled at my nose: lavender and orange oil. On the road, shit has the decency to stink.
— Mark Lawrence
At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income
— Anton Siluanov
I wouldn't kidnap a man for sex - I'm not saying I couldn't use someone to oil the mower.
— Victoria Wood
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
— Walter Savage Landor
Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.
— Jerome K. Jerome
