Motor Oil Quotes

• Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  People, Patient, Speak

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• Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

  Jonathan Haidt

  Running, Car, Trying

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• For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Years, Feet, Tanks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.124, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

  Renny Harlin

  Real, Experts, Shells

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Thinking, Upset, Hollies

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• Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Skills, Oil, Necks

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.399, Vintage Canada

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• We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

  Ted Danson

  Organization, Together, Environmental

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• Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.

  John Lasseter

  Cartoon, Veins, Flood

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

  Warren Zevon

  Drinking, Sleep, Oil

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