Oil Quotes
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The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
E. B. White -
Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
Leontyne Price
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My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.
Jim Elliot -
Those high oil prices are a burden on U.S. families, on firms' production costs. But the good news is that at least so far the U.S. economy has not been slowed by the high energy prices.
Ben Bernanke -
Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found.
L. E. J. Brouwer -
... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.
Samuel Alexander -
Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.
William Randolph Hearst -
Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.
Bonaventure -
I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky -
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 -
Oil, Jews and Germans, are our most important export commodities.
Nicolae Ceausescu -
Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
Willem de Kooning
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I believe that data is the new oil. I am saying it in this country because I believe that the prosperity that oil brought in the last 50 years, data will bring in the next 50, 100 years if you use it the right way.
Ajaypal Singh Banga -
I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.
Barack Obama -
We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.
Barack Obama -
To fight, we must have oil for our machine.
Adolf Hitler -
I'm saying you should have the right not only to be an energy consumer but an energy producer. Follow the money to understand why my message keeps getting drowned out. Big oil and big coal are terrified by the green jobs message.
Van Jones -
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.
Banksy
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I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.
Lynn Barber -
We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.
Jon Corzine -
Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.
Armand Hammer -
I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.
Lakshmi