Top 1200 Peak Oil Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When my mind is operating at its peak, it should depress me to think that this is the best I can do, because it's not very good at all. When my mind is operating normally, I should be even more depressed.

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.

A superhero represents infinite possibility. It represents the peak of aspiration and courage. And if you see yourself reflected as a superhero, you will give yourself permission to dream anything.

Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.

The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing.

When people say, 'Your music was the music of the Seventies,' I say, 'So was discoteque.' The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]

Far from environmental prophet, he is a foreign oil profiteer. That is the inconvenient truth of Al Gore.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

Winning the World Cup is definitely the highlight of my career. I thought the gold medal at the Olympics would peak it, but winning the World Cup, the reception... it's what we all dreamed of when we were little.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

We are now living through peak stupid with the left, and this 'toxic masculinity,' 'white patriarch' nonsense, where they've now devolved to judging people exclusively by their gender and their skin color is a marker of the total intellectual collapse of the radical left.

Beetroot, garlic, lemon ... and buy a bottle of olive oil. All these things are very critical.

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

I fell in love with the idea of writing songs when I was a child. I thought I was going to be a journalist at first, but I gradually fell in love with all these great writers like Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, who were at the peak of their powers then.

At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.

I do not understand players going to China at the age of 27 or 28. Those guys are at the peak of their career. That is a waste, really. You only get one career. I sort of understand players who are already in their 30s.

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.

I was banned when I feel I was at my peak, and anyone in my shoes would feel the same way I did and would also have gone through the whole range of emotions that I did.

If we made an income pyramid out of a child's blocks, with each layer portraying $1,000 of income, the peak would be far higher than the Eiffel Tower, but almost all of us would be within a yard of the ground.

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

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

A guy my size needs a tremendous amount of protein on a daily basis, just to maintain peak size, strength, and performance. Basically, that means six or seven small meals a day, so I depend on protein supplementation.

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Sadly, I've seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change.

It's intimidating when you have to stand onstage amongst a bunch of men who are dedicated to maintaining peak musculature and athleticism, and they're six-five, 240 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal. It's a lot to stand up to... My goal is to not look like Chris Farley.

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

I'm half Italian, and on my mom's side, they've aged amazingly, and all they've put on their faces is olive oil.

I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.

The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is.

I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry.

I like to put coconut oil in my hair if it's looking dry. It's so unruly. It has a mind of its own.

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.

We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.

There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

Raj Kapoor started directing and producing movies while he was at the peak of his career. Aamir Khan has also directed a movie while his career graph was soaring.

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.

Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.

Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change.

There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue.

The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.

I think sometimes with new characters, you can kind of hit a creative valley, and it's important to recognize when you're in that valley so you can get back out and get back to that peak.

If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.