Gas Quotes - Page 21

• His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

  David Morrell

  Military, Kids, Kentucky

  David Morrell (2011). “First Blood”, p.13, David Morrell

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• Gas Attendant: "Thata ain't no etch-a-sketch. Thats one doodle that can't be un-did home skillet.

  Diablo Cody

  Home, Etch A Sketch

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• They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Sleep, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.279, Penguin

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• A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Depression, Men, Melancholy

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.126, The Floating Press

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• Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.

  Frank Herbert

  Numbers, Space, Molecules

  Frank Herbert (2011). “Dune Messiah: The Second Dune Novel”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?

  Amy Jenkins

  What If, Everyday, Pay

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• Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Rocks, Brave

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• when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life

  Jenny Downham

  Holiday, Car, Dying

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken Catastrophe and Eggs Overwhelming and a tall, cool Janitor-in-a-Drum. I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station.

  Tom Waits

  Eggs, Oil, Personality

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• He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Two, Knowing

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.510, Pan Macmillan

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• You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

  Bob Dylan

  Writing, Artist, People

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.

  James Patterson

  America, Looks, Arrogant

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• I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.

  John Waters

  Moving, Cities, Style

  "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, 1981.

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• You know what this is?" Lula said. "This here's plane rage." Plane rage isn't allowed. It got taken off the allowed activities list along with eating. If you make a scene they'll hual you off in leg irons." Stephanie said. I'm tired of being stapped in here, too," Lula said. "This seat belt's too tight and it's giving me gas." Anything else?" There's no movie.

  Janet Evanovich

  Taken, Tired, Iron

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “To the Nines”, p.160, St. Martin's Press

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• Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]

  Terry Pratchett

  Pie, Meat, Hot

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• I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas.

  Judy Blume

  Baby, Strong, Nice

  Judy Blume (2012). “Forever . . .”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons.

  Naomi Klein

  War, Army, Cowboy

  "The Real Blackwater Scandal: Build a Frontier, You Get Cowboys". Interview with John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2010.

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• Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Prayer, Men, Our Generation

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• I don't understand why they trippin', If you ask me, Flow is just as nice as, I admit the propane, I just spit, probably, Just raise the gas prices, Everybody in the club, Try and get as fresh as me, What you want dog, Trying to stay recession free, And spit, refreshly.

  Kanye West

  Dog, Nice, Trying

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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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