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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

Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices. — Peter Schiff

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source. — Rick Perry

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

The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot burning oil. You burst into flames. — Diana Nyad

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'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead. — Warren Zevon

Erik choked back the insult he'd been on the verge of uttering. Judging by his expression, it was viler than a castor-oil purgative. — Juan Filloy

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

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

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

The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. — Jonathan Swift

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

Decades of Saddam's rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one. — Chris Kyle

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

Her oil-black hair's sort of punky. She must use gel. I'd love to gel her gel in for her. — David Mitchell

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

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. — John D. Rockefeller

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

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout. — Carl Safina

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

Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on. — Tim McGraw

Whaling was the oil business of its day. — Nathaniel Philbrick

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

When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company. — John D. Rockefeller

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors. — Jimmy Carter

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms. — Robert Kiyosaki

The flesh of her butt jiggled like water-filled beach balls, oil drops dangling from a soupspoon, oversized Jell-O dessert cups. — Dennis Vickers

It rolled over you like old oil from a fryer. — Ilona Andrews

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

We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed — Janet Chapman

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world. — Harry Reid

I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back. — Lee Labrada

Regret has a purpose. It's like the oil light on the dashboard of your life, telling you something needs to be fixed. So fix it. And feel better. — David D. Burns

I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum. — Wole Soyinka

If Love Were Oil, / I'd Be About a Quart Low. — Lewis Grizzard

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. — Ralph Nader

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it. — Red Adair

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

pedimented doors to right and left, an oil painting of the — P.D. James

If you are so inflamed that you can't train, and ibuprofen and fish oil help with inflammation, maybe you'd better take the ibuprofen and fish oil. — Mark Rippetoe

Using coconut oil is a great way to regulate your blood sugar levels and keep you balanced and productive throughout the day. — Ben Night

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska. — Amory Lovins

If entertainment ran grocery stores, we'd NEVER get oil cured olives or blue cheese, it would be JUST Coke. — Penn Jillette

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand? — Golda Meir

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire. — William Shakespeare

What the hell did we do to deserve this? — Tony Hayward

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

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

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile. — Abu Bakar Bashir

I just don't like the word 'fun'
it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts ... it rubs me up the wrong way. — Tom Waits

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

You wouldn't hurt a virgin, would you? Where do you think they get virgin olive oil, huh? Don't you think we're pathetic enough as it is? — Italy

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

If Europe's example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don't drive them too much. — Paul Krugman

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent. — Susan Rice

National Democrats often try to pay for something with oil and gas taxes. — Mark Begich

Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable. — Ed Rendell

After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are. — Jose Andres

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

Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the darkness closes in ... I love you — Steven Strait

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

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

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction. — James Buchan

I don't get why arabs are so pissed off at us. I mean they have enough oil for all of them to drive a hummer at what, maybe 1.50 a gallon? — Zach Braff

Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil. — Charles Dickens

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico. — John Amos

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

I was in the oil business for a while
gas and oil, check the tires. — Mike Love

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

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. — Jay Leno

Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry. — Josh Fox

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself. — Jerome K. Jerome

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems. — Pete Domenici

If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us. — Dan Seals