Gas Quotes - Page 30

• I still have the mentality of someone who doesn't know where he's going to sleep and doesn't know if he has enough money for gas to get to the next job interview. I don't think that mentality ever leaves, you know?

  Richard Schiff

  Sleep, Thinking, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I thought I wouldn't enjoy the business side of music, but it's fun because it is completely - like running a DIY venue was the same exact thing but just on a smaller scale and a DIY tour is the same thing. You're just running a small business. Like we live within the paradigm of capitalism. Even if I'm going in playing these anarcho spaces, I still have to buy gas.

  Dan Deacon

  Running, Fun, Small Business

  Source: www.slate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sharia has a ruling system, an economic system, a policy and social system, a foreign policy and judiciary system to be implemented, you know, the whole package. Under the Sharia, food, shelter and clothing will be provided for all citizens in addition to basic necessities like gas and water as well. But, it's not like communism or socialism in the respect that you can work for the luxuries.

  Anjem Choudary

  Water, Socialism, Communism

  Source: www.yahoo.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It sucks to think about, honestly, but when you really consider the resources that it takes to press vinyl records, or the amount of gas that it takes to tour, it's really quite scary.

  John Flansburgh

  Thinking, Scary, Vinyl

  Source: www.mtv.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

  Leighton Meester

  Kids, Who Cares, Stuff

  4 Copy quote

• I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

  Heather Mills

  Mean, Want, Excuse

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Reality, Oil, Uranium Mining

  "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Responsibility, Reality, Car

  4 Copy quote

• I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

  Huey Newton

  Mean, Community, Patriotism

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Animal, Pigs, Years

  "Bill Nye on Sandy, Climate Change and the 2012 Election". Interview with Richard Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Kids, Cutting

  News conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.

  T. Boone Pickens

  America, Fuel, Gasoline

  9 Copy quote

• No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Believe, Army

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia" by Vladimir Putin, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Technology, Thinking, Oil

  27 Copy quote

• If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Feet, Relaxed, Dies

  4 Copy quote

• As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.

  Rick Renzi

  Summer, America, Energy

  60 Copy quote

• You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off - they're not going to miss it.

  Kid Rock

  Oil, Missing, Tanks

  "Kid Rock boycotts iTunes over pay" by Ian Youngs, news.bbc.co.uk. June 18, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.

  Mitt Romney

  Independent, Oil, America

  Mitt Romney's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 30, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

  Mitt Romney

  Fall, Government, Progress

  4 Copy quote

• I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.

  Ken Salazar

  Thinking, Oil, Economy

  "Could US gas prices reach $9 a gallon?". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 26, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Ambition, Men, Feet

  56 Copy quote

• If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

  Gus Van Sant

  Car, Stories, Unfolding

  7 Copy quote

• I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.

  Curt Schilling

  Senior, Jobs, School

  "MLB great Curt Schilling thriving in second career". "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

  Gene Simmons

  Mother, Book, Yesterday

  "Parker Spitzer" with Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2010.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stars, Son, Our World

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

  Show source