Gas Quotes - Page 22

• I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can't remember the intricate decision tree I had to climb in order to determine which one to drive to work on any given day - it probably had something to do with the weather, or which car had more gas in the tank, or upholstery that best matched whatever shirt I happened to throw on that morning.

  Michael J. Fox

  Morning, Order, Weather

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• A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?

  Roald Dahl

  Giants, Ears, Littles

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.63, Penguin

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• He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

  Michael J. Fox

  Simple, Oxygen, Ideas

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• My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories of faith, hope, triumph, and love. They are stories of perseverance, loyalty, courage in the face of overwhelming odds, and of never giving up!

  Livia Bitton-Jackson

  Loyalty, Perseverance, Giving Up

  Livia Bitton-Jackson (2011). “I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

  S. E. Hinton

  Fun, Men, Cities

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.109, Penguin

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• I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

  Frank Miller

  Sin City, Wire, Cuffs

  "Sin City". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out of the car and showing her which was the Men's and which was the Women's, so I let her pick them herself. I worked out a system. The law of averages. I laid money on her and she came out about fifty-fifty.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Tired, Men, Average

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.284, LSU Press

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• Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded," Shane said. Second finger. "Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank." Third finger. "Killed over ice cream. Basically, any death that requires me to be stupid first.

  Rachel Caine

  Stupid, Tombstone, Ice Cream

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• Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

  John Green

  Loneliness, Coffee, Drunk

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.22, Penguin

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• Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, Running, Orange

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• As the great poet wrote, ‘To thine own self be true.’…What? You don’t think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to love Shakespeare. Hamlet is one of my faves. (Zeth) I’m not touching that one with tongs and a gas mask. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Self, Touching

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• Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Running, Business, Entrepreneur

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• My father looked like he was having a stroke— not that Mel seemed to notice because he just kept talking. “Patrick needs a ride. No car, you know, and so I figured, hey, I can pick up some gas money.” He laughed. No one else did, and now Patrick looked like he was trying to push himself inside the door and hide.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Father, Doors, Talking

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• Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.

  Libba Bray

  Sound, Gonzo

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.313, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her.

  Steig Larsson

  Clouds, Poison, Matter

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• Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Suicide, Gun, Drug

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.223, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.

  Rachel Caine

  Water, Temptation, Example

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• What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?

  Sarah Dessen

  Buying, Crime, Said

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.78, Penguin

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• I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Light, Car, Steps

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Aug 24, 2012

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• Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top don’t stop a bomb or you’ll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if I’m killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Wise, Baby, Sleep

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.189, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

  Stephen King

  Loyalty, Running, Art

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• The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact." THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... "Really? Then what would have happened, pray?" A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Balls, World

  "Hogfather". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1996.

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• Leo: I'm almost out of gas! Woah, that came out wrong. I meant the burning kind!

  Rick Riordan

  Burning, Kind

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• I named my camel Katrina. She was a natural disaster. She slobbered everywhere and seemed to think the purple streak in my hair was some kind of exotic fruit. She was obsessed with trying to eat my head. I named Walt's camel Hindenburg. He was almost as large as a zeppelin and definitely as full of gas.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Hair, Purple

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.190, Penguin UK

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