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  • Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. -- J. Paul Getty
  • I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world. -- Harry Reid
  • Oil runs America and it's the sad reality. -- Cristian Machado
  • Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan. -- Christopher Buckley
  • Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? -- Edvard Munch
  • Oil is dead, on its way to extinction. -- Ian Somerhalder
  • Oil is a very important component of economic growth. -- Maria Bartiromo
  • Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. -- J. Paul Getty
  • If Love Were Oil, / I'd Be About a Quart Low. -- Lewis Grizzard
  • Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy. -- Rodrigo Rato
  • Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement -- Norm Coleman
  • Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out. -- T. Boone Pickens
  • Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. -- Berthold Auerbach
  • Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile. -- Abu Bakar Bashir
  • If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. -- Mahmoud Darwish
  • Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere. -- Bill McKibben
  • Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil. -- Jeff Goodell
  • Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree! -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • Water. Oil pales beside it, and the value of the land itself is measured by it. -- Larry J. McKinney
  • Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs. -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found. -- L. E. J. Brouwer
  • It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone. -- Dennis Weaver
  • Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market. -- Vinod Khosla
  • It became clear when I got in my car that Persians are only really good for two things. Oil and hummus. -- Chelsea Handler
  • There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good. -- Charles Saatchi
  • After a bath, I like to use Jo Wood Organics Usiku Body Oil. It mositurises my skin without leaving it greasy. -- Jessica Alba
  • You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years. -- Will Rogers
  • I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start? -- Rush Limbaugh
  • The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil. -- Ahmed Zaki Yamani
  • Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written. -- Alex Morritt
  • I use Rodin Luxury Face Oil at night, and it keeps my skin hydrated and refreshed for the day - not tired from all the makeup. -- Erin Heatherton
  • Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Friendship and money: oil and water. -- Mario Puzo
  • Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. -- Peter Shaffer
  • To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. -- Mother Teresa
  • Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal. -- Lamar S. Smith
  • Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. -- Ralph Nader
  • The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two. -- Tony Snow
  • Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. -- Joan Rivers
  • It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas. -- George W. Bush
  • The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. -- John Milton
  • We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources. -- Ron Kind
  • A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. -- James Buchan
  • In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways. -- Virgil Goode
  • 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
  • Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. -- Washington Irving
  • I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one. -- George Galloway
  • Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to. -- Dan Aykroyd
  • Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! -- Golda Meir
  • Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat. -- Bill Nye
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  • Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil." -- Daniel Yergin
  • A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched. -- Jane McGonigal
  • Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil. -- David McCandless
  • To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. -- George MacDonald
  • One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil. -- James Lovelock
  • We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically. -- Ron Kind
  • The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. -- Bono
  • I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum. -- Wole Soyinka
  • I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. -- Smedley Butler
  • An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. -- Washington Irving
  • There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources. -- Bill McKibben
  • I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. -- Emeril Lagasse
  • I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark's largest company, its sales equal to 20 percent of Denmark's GDP; its ships use more oil than the entire nation. -- Rose George
  • In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades. -- Gary Miller
  • Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil. -- Noam Chomsky
  • By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf. -- Noam Chomsky
  • If you are going to wrestle a bear, try to stay away from all fish oil products, you know. I mean it's tough for me, because I love to rub myself with salmon oil every day - it's a great conditioner for the hair, skin. -- Will Ferrell
  • In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. -- Warren Buffett
  • 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
  • The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore. -- Fareed Zakaria
  • Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy slip. To open the box of pearls and put them on. To crack open the bath oil beads before they shrivel up in a bowl on the toilet tank. -- Regina Brett
  • I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta. -- Giada De Laurentiis
  • When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption. -- Rex Tillerson
  • The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced. -- Elon Musk
  • One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
  • Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer. -- Jeff Bridges
  • Iraq is not about oil. -- Bobby Ray Inman
  • Some people are oil and water. -- John Christopher
  • Forgiveness is the oil of relationships. -- Josh McDowell
  • Some people find oil. Others don't. -- J. Paul Getty
  • You can't have oil without oil spills. -- Markwayne Mullin
  • pretense is the oil that lubricates society. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • a little oil makes machinery work easy ... -- Fanny Fern
  • Mixing oil and testosterone can be dangerous. -- Myriam Miedzian
  • Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting. -- Robertson Davies
  • Whenever we defend democracy we find oil. -- Peter Gabriel
  • All that foreign oil controlling American soil. -- Bob Dylan
  • oil paints...the look of licked lips. -- Margaret Atwood
  • God pours His oil into clean vessels! -- Jentezen Franklin
  • The wheel that squeaks gets the oil. -- Tracey Emin
  • Evil alone has oil for every wheel. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • The oil and wine of merry meeting. -- Washington Irving
  • The Iraq War is largely about oil. -- Alan Greenspan
  • There is no free market for oil. -- T. Boone Pickens
  • There is no free market in oil. -- Peter DeFazio
  • It'll all end in tears and oil. -- Gail Carriger
  • Love your skin, give oil a go. -- Shu Uemura
  • Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself. -- Jerome K. Jerome
  • Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period. -- Ted Allen
  • Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. -- Gerald R. Ford
  • Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil. -- Bonaventure
  • I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil. -- William Shenstone
  • We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil. -- Jon Corzine
  • Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity. -- Vandana Shiva
  • Tibet is not like Kuwait. Kuwait has oil. -- Dalai Lama
  • Coconut oil is the healthiest oil on earth, -- Bruce Fife
  • We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway. -- Erik Naggum
  • The oil can is mightier than the sword. -- Everett Dirksen
  • It takes oil to keep the lamps burning. -- Mother Teresa
  • There could be oil coming up until August. -- Carol Browner
  • All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil. -- Nelson Mandela
  • Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century -- Mark Getty
  • Olive oil is a bang for your buck oil. -- Vinnie Tortorich
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