Oil Quotes - Page 34

• Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

  Jeff Goodell

  Political, President, May

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• Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

  Jeff Goodell

  Long, Keystone Pipeline, Mexico

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• Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

  Paul Stamets

  Impact, Volcanoes, Pigs

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care.

  John Dryden

  Hair, Care, Barbers

  John Dryden (1837). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.379

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• Peter Tertzakian's analysis of world oil is a fascinating reminder that history often foretells the major turning points of the future.

  Gwyn Morgan

  Analysis, World, Peter

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• An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Real, Promise, President

  "Obama's oil flimflam". jewishworldreview.com. March 15, 2012.

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• We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Uncles, Energy, Nuclear

  Gerald R. Ford's speech as Vice President to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in West Palm Beach, Florida, January 26, 1974.

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• Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Real, Wine, Water

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2243, Simon and Schuster

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• Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint.

  Cy Twombly

  Hands, Use, Paint

  "I work in waves". Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• Olive oil is a bang for your buck oil.

  Vinnie Tortorich

  Bangs, Bucks, Olives

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• So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when
  the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes
  greater than the energy content of the oil, production
  will cease no matter what the monetary price may
  be.

  M. King Hubbert

  Long, Energy, Cost

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• Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

  M. King Hubbert

  Husband, Virtue, Resources

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• The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil…. We [will] start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century.

  David Goodstein

  Running, Fuel, World

  David Goodstein (2005). “Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Greatness, Flames, Shining

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.

  Al Gore

  Giving, Energy, Use

  "Energy crisis threatens U.S. survival, Gore says", www.cnn.com. July 18, 2008.

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• There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.

  Diet Eman

  Girl, Mother, Pain

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• Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Spring, Wine, Affliction

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• Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

  Austin O'Malley

  Photography, Color, Painting

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• If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.

  Chinua Achebe

  Land, Punishment, Wrath

  Chinua Achebe (1992). “Things Fall Apart”, Everyman's Library

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• Below -60° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the slightest breeze, you can hear your breath freeze as it floats away, making a sound like that of Chinese firecrackers. As does the morning dew, rime coats every exposed object. And if you work too hard and breathe too deeply, your lungs will sometimes feel as if they were on fire.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Morning, Fire, Chinese

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.77, Island Press

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• To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.

  James Elkins

  Memories, Artist, Breathing

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.2, Routledge

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• A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.

  James Elkins

  Mixtures, Looks, Brushes

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.8, Routledge

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• As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

  James Elkins

  Doe, Stories, Painting

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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• To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating, and ravishingly beautiful that it makes it worthwhile to go back into the studio every morning, year after year, for an entire lifetime.

  James Elkins

  Beautiful, Morning, Blood

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.4, Routledge

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• The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

  James Elkins

  Discovery, Brilliant, Unexpected

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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