Oil Quotes - Page 36

• Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.

  Mark Getty

  Moving, Men, Years

  "Blood and Oil". The Economist, March 4, 2000.

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• Geologists claim that although the world is running out of oil, there is still a 200-hundred-year supply of brake fluid.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Running, Years

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• Evil alone has oil for every wheel.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Evil, Wheels

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

  James Fallows

  Technology, Assessment, Office

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• I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.

  Fergie

  Eye, Thinking, Wrinkles

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• Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop playing footsie with the oil companies and take steps to protect the American people.

  Ron Wyden

  Gasoline Prices, People, Steps

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• I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Divorce, Disagreeable

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2008). “When A Man Marries (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

  Grace Paley

  War, Wind, Important

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• A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

  S. J. Perelman

  Pale Yellow, House, Gold

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  To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Mean, Light

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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• If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from?

  Jane Wagner

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

  Lee Iacocca

  Car, House, Guy

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.319, Bantam

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• Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm that will supply the owner with oil, wine, fruit, and flowers for the house.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Flower, Wine

  Mary McCarthy (2016). “The Stones of Florence”, p.222, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

  Neal Barnard

  Heart, Animal, Vegetables

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• I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.

  Don DeLillo

  Country, Fall, Cutting

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.58, Vintage

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• I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fall, Men, Ice

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• No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

  Daryl Hannah

  Kids, Want, Dies

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• As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They are totally painting (whatever that may mean). On the other hand, they are so like the photograph that the thing that distinguished the photograph from all other pictures remains intact.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Hands

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• Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, America

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• Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Trust, Anxious Thoughts, Two

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• There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Cartels, Opec, Free Market

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• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  Hu Shih

  Light, Vegetables, Chinese

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• It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

  T. Boone Pickens

  New York, Looks, Stock Exchange

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• There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Jobs, Wind, Sun

  "Climate Choice" by Evangeline Lilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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• I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

  Alexa Chung

  Obsessed, Decided

  "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

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