Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia Earle

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

Aldous Huxley

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

Richard Dawkins

The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.

Charles Krauthammer

The only reason the president insists on raising [tax] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause a complete fracture of the Republican majority in the house, it will hand him a Congress that he can then manipulate for the next two years at least because the Republicans will be neutered. ... This is entirely a political action, a way to get a surrender from the Republicans.

Dick Cheney

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

Walter Benjamin

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

Banksy

It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.

Banksy

Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots

Ludwig von Mises

Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.

Dogen

When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.

Jimmy Carter

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

William Shakespeare

And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

Jesse Jackson

We're not going to have an oil war.

Dick Cheney

Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

Dick Cheney

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.

Dear Abbey

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

David Sowerby

We're long on autos, short on oil stocks.

Roland Guidry

We still have a lot of oil in the water.

Lynn Reaser

Today was a relief rally; it was an oil price relief story,

Richard Bove

Treasury prices have been rising and oil is up and down,

Mike Erfert

You do know you've got a vehicle down there, so you know there's oil and gasoline.