Gas Quotes - Page 16

• Life is not a tour of gas stations.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Gas Stations, Life Is, Stations

  Tim O'Reilly (2017). “WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us”, p.360, Random House

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• If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

  Cory Doctorow

  Math, Doors, Car

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.119, Macmillan

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• You might be a redneck if getting a package from your post office requires a full tank of gas in the truck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Office, Tanks

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• If the gas pedal on your car is shaped like a bare foot, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Feet, Car

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• I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, Years, Wings

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• It is critical that the world captures every last bit of energy efficiency, if we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep below dangerous rises in temperature. I am pleased that this important new study shows how information and communication technology can play an essential role in saving energy. Now we need more and effective government policies that reward such action and penalize delayed responses.

  Christiana Figueres

  Communication, Technology, Government

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• When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Car, Energy, Pay

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to the food on our tables and the gas in our cars. There is always a price to be paid, she reminds us, for the pleasures and comforts of this day.  If you read only one memoir this year, this is the one to read and pass along.

  Jonis Agee

  Book, Kansas, Years

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• With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

  Donald Sadoway

  Wind, Giants, Batteries

  "The missing link to renewable energy". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

  Carlos Mesa

  Government, Issues, Challenges

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• I'm trying to set out the passion and complexity of this sport. Many people think it's a dumb activity: stand on the gas and turn left. In fact, it's probably one of the most complex sports in existence.

  Janet Guthrie

  Sports, Passion, Thinking

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• I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.

  Alfred Kastler

  Wall, Relaxation, Molecules

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• The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it.

  Gene Spafford

  Nerves, Safe, Bunkers

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• The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.

  Ernest Moniz

  Clock Is Ticking, Greenhouses, Emissions

  "Secretary Moniz Emphasizes 'Innovation Agenda' To Stop Climate Change". "All Things Considered", wamc.org. December 7, 2015.

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• If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we are fossil fuel, that is modernity, modernity has two elements: individualism and oil. Now to move toward a more enlightened sustainable world, we have to transform with lots of technology, with even differences in the way we see the world and how we live in the world. That`s going to take decades.

  Jerry Brown

  Moving, Technology, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The government taxes you when you bring home a paycheck.
  It taxes you when you make a phone call.
  It taxes you when you turn on a light.
  It taxes you when you sell a stock.
  It taxes you when you fill your car with gas.
  It taxes you when you ride a plane.
  It taxes you when you get married.
  Then it taxes you when you die.
  This is taxual insanity and it must end.

  J. C. Watts

  Home, Phones, Light

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• Some ladies got the shower massager. Oh, man, you better buy her a diamond 'cause if she got a shower massager, she don't really need you anymore. That shower massager makes a woman shake like a car on bad gas going up a hill.

  Jay Mohr

  Men, Car, Causes

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• He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

  Hillary Clinton

  Leader, Gas Stations, Century

  "MEANWHILE: Gandhi, for one, would have found it funny". Salil Tripathi, International Herald Tribune, January 21, 2004.

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• No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Army, Weekend, Night

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• So I was at the gas station the other day, and I saw that there was braille on the pumps. I don't see how they can cater to blind drivers. I mean, there are certain rights you should lose once you lose what makes you a person.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Rights, Gas Stations

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• Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I swear he said, Tire go flat? I couldn't resist. Said, Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here's your sign.

  Bill Engvall

  Lasts, Sides, Gas Stations

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 12, 2013

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• You can't be bad ass in a car that kills gas like I kill tacos.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Bad Ass, Car, Tacos

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• Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope here at home!

  Dana Gould

  Home, Rope, Pilots

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• I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for a privileged view of nature. But my daily life very rarely took me to Point Lobos or Yosemite; it took me to shopping centers, and gas stations and all the other unhealthy growth that flourished beside the highway. It was a landscape that no one else had much interest in looking at. Other than me.

  Lewis Baltz

  Views, Shopping, Growth

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• I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.

  Winston Churchill

  Mean, Eye, Men

  Winston Churchill's statement as President of the Air Council in War Office Departmental Minute (the original document is in the collection of Churchill Papers 16/16 at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge), May 12, 1919.

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