Top 1200 Peak Oil Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

Wrap the turkey up In aluminum foil My brother likes to masturbate With baby oil.

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.

You only have to see the rate of divorce in cricket. You're away so much and then 18 months later, you're around all the time and not sure what to do with the rest of your life. You go from being at the peak of your powers to being at the bottom of the food chain.

I don't go there thinking I'm going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I'll do the best that I can. I need to be at my peak and my best is holding up the trophy. Anything less I wouldn't be really excited about. So that's all I can focus on.

Venezuela is supporting tens of thousands of poor families in the United States with heating oil.

Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career.

Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete... they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.

Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette, and Mumbai - that teeming 'maximum city', with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling and killing for success - is his brush.

Cougars are all the rage! I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture. That's when a woman's in her peak. That's when she's hot. She's already been through all of the junk. She's confident. Secure with who she is.

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and the 3rd ascent of the mountain as well. Waddington is one of the more beautiful peaks in all of Canada and it's only 175 miles north of Vancouver. B.C.!!

Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.

If you want to continue to be good and perform at a high level and be deep in all areas, you still have to hit on some undervalued players, too. You can't just go out and sign marquee free agents or trade for players when they're at the peak of their value. That's not a formula for long-term success.

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

Any sustained rise in the price of oil will hit the Indian economy hard.

Leadership is less about the position you hold than the influence you have. It's about doing world-class work, playing at your peak, and leaving people better than you found them. It's about Leading Without a Title.

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

You might be a redneck if you refer to the time you won a free case of oil as the day my ship came in.

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

I'm no mechanic but I can change my oil and I know what to do when I get a flat tire and I can hot-wire it in an emergency.

Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself.

You can use melted butter instead of oil, but your cake may be a little denser.

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.

Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she's walking over. It just amused me.

Every dollar added to the price of oil weakens America and strengthens her enemies.

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet.

Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?

Every dollar cut from the price of oil weakens the enemies of freedom and strengthens America.

I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring.

Even if you are at the peak of your career, and almost everyone is on some type of ladder to success and waiting to get to the top of their profession, but even if you get there is it enough? So think of this now rather than when you get there and not have thought about it before.

I love fresh-from-the-vine summer tomatoes almost more than any other food I can think of, and when I come home with a big haul from the farmers market, I'd like those tomatoes to be at peak flavor and texture for the whole week, until I can replenish them.

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.

In Nigeria, financial services, telecoms, and entertainment have driven growth more than oil.

I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.

A great trick for frying is to put a popcorn kernel in the oil, and when it pops, you're ready to fry.

The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.

Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

I don't try to get all the meat off the bone. When I get a good figure, I just move something. Too many people try to hit the peak price, and they hold on until it is too late.

[Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.

Neither solar nor wind are actually substitutes for coal or natural gas or oil.

A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this.

People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay.

The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

No matter what time I return home, I make it a point to remove my makeup with baby oil.

Lil Wayne would probably be a big musical inspiration for me, because growing up I was just the biggest Wayne fan and being able to be signed to him and watch his whole journey to the peak of his career is great.