"Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction."

--

James Buchan

#Oil Quotes #Addiction Quotes #Facts Quotes

“I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.”
“Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.”
“As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.”

Source : Andrew O'Hagan (2010). “The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America”, p.16, Faber & Faber
“To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?”
“What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
“If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.”
“It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.”

Source : Michael Connelly (2003). “Lost Light”, p.142, Hachette UK
“Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.”

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