Oil Quotes - Page 23

• I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

  James Rosenquist

  Simple, Museums, Hair

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• Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see yourself being sad and feeling deprived for having to gather all your resources and sacrifice them in order to buy that property? Hardly. Now you know what it is like to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Order

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• My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Adventure, Years, Effort

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• Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

  Paul Strand

  Order, Drawing, Important

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• The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have hitherto read your Bible to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a keystone, a compass without a needle, a clock without a spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you; it will not deliver your soul from hell.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spring, Heaven, Soul

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• Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Clouds, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.2014, Library of Alexandria

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• If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

  J. Paul Getty

  Up Early, Pay, Get Up

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• Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.

  Paul Newman

  Agreement, Ideas, Giving

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• When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.

  Martin Cooper

  Phones, Talking, Scarcity

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• If your body is crying out for a change, or crying out that it's unhappy, for goodness sake listen to it. Our bodies aren't machines that get by with a grease and oil change every 50,000 kilometres. Stress is part of life but if prolonged stress is in our life, we have to ask ourselves if we are in the right place, right frame of mind, or doing the right job.

  Simon McKeon

  Jobs, Stress, Men

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• If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Ideas, Lazy

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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

  Asbestos, May, Spirit

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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

  Motor Oil, Cartoon, Veins

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• I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria.

  Andrew Weil

  Fighting, Essential Oils, Essentials

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• There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?

  Robert Redford

  Pay The Price, Made, Should

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• We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

  Van Jones

  Global Warming, Plant, Form

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• I'm not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It's just a bit wrong! I don't find it sexy. I prefer essential oils - patchouli is nice.

  Eva Green

  Sexy, Nice, Men

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• I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.

  Billy Campbell

  Hair, Tree, Tea

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Running, Islands, Ozone

  "Top Gear", October 31, 2004.

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• Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, Hey, come see my play, hed say, Sure. Hed see one, Oh, good play - you know, very typical dad reaction.

  Eric McCormack

  Growing Up, Dad, Father

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• Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, America

  "White House, Saudis: No election deal on oil". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.

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• We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil.

  Jello Biafra

  Sports, Military, Law

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• I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.

  Hans Blix

  Thinking, Competition, World

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• Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

  Peter Gabriel

  Democracy, Politics

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• Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Hands, Important, Politics

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