Oil famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.
-- Marty Meehan -
First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.
-- Marty Meehan -
For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.
-- Mary Landrieu -
pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
It's like pouring oil from one glass to another down a line - in the end, you don't have any oil left; it is all stuck to the inside of the glasses. This way, 1,000 dollars become 100 dollars by the time it reaches the people. Whereas if we get 10 dollars, we add our effort to it and the money multiplies.
-- Mata Amritanandamayi -
Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.
-- Matthew Henry -
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago), and is likely to go into decline in the very foreseeable future. There is only a small probability that Saudi Arabia will ever deliver the quantities of petroleum that are assigned to it in all the major forecasts of world oil production and consumption.
-- Matthew Simmons -
We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out there [developing new fields].
-- Matthew Simmons -
I've discovered the best skincare, MV Organic Skincare. I love their Energising 9-Oil Cleanser, Rose Hydrating Mist and Rose Soothing & Protective Moisturiser
-- Melissa George -
I put a drop of lavender essential oil on my pillow before I go to sleep.
-- Melissa Joan Hart -
In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.
-- Mercer Reynolds -
Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.
-- Mian Muhammad Mansha -
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.
-- Michael Eisner -
Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service.
-- Michael Klare -
...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage in world affairs, and explains to some degree why states like Japan, Britain, France, and Germany - states that are even more dependent on Persian Gulf oil than we are - defer to Washington on major international issues (like Iraq) even when they disagree with us.
-- Michael Klare -
A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as the oil industry hit geological boundaries, which meant that it could no longer maintain the historic growth rates in petroleum extraction.
-- Michael Kumhof -
The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.
-- Michael Mandelbaum -
We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a barrel of oil is going to be controlled by the Middle East for the next 10, 20, 30 years for sure.
-- Michael Mullen -
Until you change the way money works, you change nothing.
-- Michael Ruppert -
When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.
-- Michael Savage -
He's got lots of money and clearly has grandiose schemes, seeing himself as an important global player. There is a reality to it. Oil is at record prices, and he's willing to spend both in Venezuela and in the region. But the question is, how much influence is he gaining
-- Michael Shifter -
What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.
-- Michio Kaku -
Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best.
-- Mickey Duff -
We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil.
-- Midge Decter -
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.
-- Mike Love -
Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs
-- Mohammad Khatami -
If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
-- Mother Teresa -
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
-- Mother Teresa -
Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.
-- Muammar al-Gaddafi -
When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.
-- Myfanwy Pavelic -
The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies companies that were never started, masterpieces that were never painted… In the cemetery there is buried the greatest treasure of untapped potential. There is a treasure within you that must come out. Don’t go to the grave with your treasure still within YOU.
-- Myles Munroe -
Mixing oil and testosterone can be dangerous.
-- Myriam Miedzian -
I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.
-- Nadia Giosia -
I come back to the science that is in it to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and climate change. It's about science, science, science and science, innovation, as we rebuild America, create jobs, invest in our people and turn this economy around.
-- Nancy Pelosi -
Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.
-- Naomi Klein -
Had a filling done yesterday with no freezing, natural materials, essentials oils, and homeopathic remedies. We absolutely must push for more holistic biological dentistry ...
-- Natalie -
For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.
-- Nathan Oliveira -
I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.
-- Navid Negahban -
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.
-- Nelson Shanks -
We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof -
The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.
-- Nick Rahall -
Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.
-- Nigella Lawson -
Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.
-- Nikola Tesla -
Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole
-- Nnimmo Bassey -
Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement
-- Norm Coleman -
GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself. And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour. He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now. He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from.
-- Nuhu Ribadu -
I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.
-- Octavia Butler -
I would much rather end up a fertiliser under a sunflower which is eventually made into sunflower seed oil so that instead of nibbling me in her prawn cocktail, the pretty girl will rub me on her bristols as she suns herself on a beach in the Caribbean.
-- Oliver Reed -
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
-- Olusegun Obasanjo -
What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.
-- Olusegun Obasanjo -
We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.
-- Olusegun Obasanjo -
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations - whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction - has helped al-Qaida to achieve these enormous results.
-- Osama bin Laden -
In Nigeria, financial services, telecoms, and entertainment have driven growth more than oil.
-- Oscar N. Onyema -
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
-- Oscar Wilde -
You know just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't make it right. So, that is up to us, the people that see the wrong, that see the injustice, that stay educated, stay informed, stay involved. And there's an old phrase 'the squeaky wheel, gets the oil.' Right now, our wheels aren't very squeaky; the other side, they're the ones making all the racket...We just have to get up, stand up, speak out, and don't be silent.
-- Otep Shamaya -
First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore...
-- Ottmar Edenhofer -
Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
-- Otto Wallach -
One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
-- Otto Wallach -
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
-- Ouida -
An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.
-- Padma Lakshmi -
Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned close. "Sadna once risked herself and the rest of her crew to help me escape from an oil fire... Your father commands fleets. And thousands of half-men, I am sure. But would he risk himself to save a single one?
-- Paolo Bacigalupi -
We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'
-- Pat Buchanan -
Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.
-- Patience Gray -
The export of oil, the export of minerals, will for many decades continue to be a critical part for the growth of African economies. The emphasis is on diversification. We have for many years - not just in South Africa but in many parts of the continent - spoken about beneficiation. And I think part of the secret, in relation to beneficiation, is you have got to make it attractive, profitable for the private sector - and it will take off. You may have to look at mechanisms like tax concessions... You will not have to worry about beneficiation if it makes commercial sense.
-- Patrice Motsepe -
During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.
-- Patrick Stewart -
As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.
-- Paul Gillmor -
In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.
-- Paul Gillmor -
Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.
-- Paul Gillmor -
Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.
-- Paul Hawken -
There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.
-- Paul R. Ehrlich -
Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it became a fuel
-- Paul Romer -
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 -
The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.
-- Paul Theroux -
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
-- Paulo Coelho -
There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.
-- Pete Domenici -
There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.
-- Pete Domenici -
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
-- Pete Domenici -
In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.
-- Peter DeFazio -
About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.
-- Peter DeFazio -
Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.
-- Peter DeFazio -
The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
-- Peter DeFazio -
But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.
-- Peter DeFazio -
...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon...
-- Peter Lesley -
Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same,
-- Peter Morgan -
Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.
-- Peter Schiff -
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
-- Peter Shaffer -
Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.
-- Peter Welch -
Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford.
-- Phil Gramm -
Peak oil: The over-populated UK's ability to feed and supply itself for our privileged lifestyle requires the land and resources of other nations. Against a background of depleting oil resources, this is a dangerous strategy
-- Phil Harding -
Natural beauty products are a must! I use coconut oil-based RMS makeup, and I slather almond oil on my hands to soak while I watch a movie.
-- Phoebe Tonkin -
The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.
-- Phyllis Chesler -
The light is really the most important thing, so if you don't have skylights and if you don't have north light, this is like having a natural skylight. Light is the crucial factor. With wet oil paints, you don't want any hot spots or bounce.
-- Pierre Coupey
