Gas Quotes - Page 20

• You know what, I think maybe it's because men like to fart, and the host wants to be able to sit in his writers' room and just pass gas freely. Me, I'm a lady. I'm dainty. I know to get up and leave the room and go to my office.

  Wanda Sykes

  Men, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For those people who are going to tune in strictly for the pyrotechnics, we have better and bigger explosions. That's a prerequisite of any sequel. But in terms of this, what we're really monitoring is watching the gas industry light our institutions, light our regulatory agencies, light our democracy on fire.

  Josh Fox

  Fire, Agency, Light

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• I like to take folks back to the turn of the century when people said 'gas cars can never replace horses because you can feed horses at your house, you get along with them, they're nice.'

  Chris Paine

  Horse, Nice, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You take the huge income that comes with a big gas tax, and you use it to pay off regressive taxes like the FICA [Federal Insurance Contributions Act] tax. You can help the poor in other ways besides giving them cheap gas. You want to send the message that people want to be as efficient as possible using gasoline until we can transition away from that need entirely.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  People, Giving, Transition

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Love Is, Needs, Calling

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “Bertie Wooster Sees It Through”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

  Charles Bukowski

  Knives, Jam, Use

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• But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Blood, Leaving, Despair

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• Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Jobs, Today, Liquid

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “The Kite Runner”, p.250, A&C Black

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• Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Rain, Acres, Forests

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• I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Men, Waiting, Tables

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can't remember the intricate decision tree I had to climb in order to determine which one to drive to work on any given day - it probably had something to do with the weather, or which car had more gas in the tank, or upholstery that best matched whatever shirt I happened to throw on that morning.

  Michael J. Fox

  Morning, Order, Weather

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• A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?

  Roald Dahl

  Giants, Ears, Littles

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.63, Penguin

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• So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

  Barack Obama

  Energy, Coal, Want

  "Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry". www.newsbusters.org. November 2, 2008.

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• But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you're looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to pay attention to these. This is what they should be designing new facilities toward as soon as this proposal hits the streets.

  Gina McCarthy

  Design, Needs, Attention

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• People are not running to build coal facilities because of the price of natural gas, but we do see them being constructed, and there is an interest in fuel diversity, so we took the exercise pretty seriously.

  Gina McCarthy

  Running, Exercise, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Natural gas is a bridge fuel. But it's not a bridge - it's a gangplank. It's either a bridge in space or a bridge in time. The bridge in time we don't need. We have renewable technology right now.

  Josh Fox

  Technology, Bridges, Space

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• I already tried that. Something heavy metal like. And sunglasses. But it didn't work; I went to the gas station and when I left the guy at the counter said, 'bye Mr Schumacher

  Michael Schumacher

  Bye, Guy, Gas Stations

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• The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts depending on the size of the container.

  John Sayles

  Size, Contracts, Be Careful

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• You're also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.

  Chris Cuomo

  Europe, Ideas, Innovation

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• The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers' encouragement, I tried shooting a couple of shorts of my own. Directing was stressful, it was not my strength. But writing the scripts and helping others with their scripts - that was a gas. Making stuff up the way I wanted to see it was the biggest kick I ever experienced.

  Karen Walton

  Summer, Encouragement, Art

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Obviously the horse can still do things that the gas car can never do, and the gas car will always be able to do things the electric car can't do. But they have really different uses and advantages.

  Chris Paine

  Horse, Car, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use.

  Chris Paine

  Oil, Car, Energy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage.

  Chris Paine

  Marketing, Pushing, Hell

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it.

  Martin Winterkorn

  Russia, Iron, Long

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• When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.

  Josh Fox

  Doors, People, Focus

  "“Gasland Part II”: The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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