Gas Quotes - Page 35

• You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner.

  Keiichi Tsuchiya

  Car, Waiting, Wheels

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• Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

  Frank Zappa

  Suicide, Cracks, Stuff

  Song: Stuff Up the Cracks

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• All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

  Dionne Warwick

  Art, Stars, Media

  Song: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?, Album: Dionne Sings Dionne

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• Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.

  Waylon Jennings

  Brother, Musical, Tanks

  Song: Armed And Dangerous, Album: Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A.

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• In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that the aether cannot be molecular. If it were, it would be a gas, and a pint of it would have the same properties as regards heat, etc., as a pint of air, except that it would not be so heavy.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Knowing, Air

  James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, C. W. Francis Everitt (1986). “Maxwell on Molecules and Gases”, p.132, MIT Press

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• I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

  Patti Smith

  Sky, Poetry, Storm

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm so in love with the United States. Not as a patriot. I'm in love with America like it's my first girlfriend. The geography, the people, the smell, the touch, the taste, the gas stations. I'm madly in love with America.

  Vincent Gallo

  Girlfriend, Smell, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Oil, Nuclear, Coal

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Lying, Fall

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• I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.

  Young Jeezy

  Pay

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• My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.

  Jon Stewart

  Two, Rocks, Hands

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• Men really disgust me if they don't have a nice smile, nice lips and nice teeth...They have too many disgusting habits - like scratching themselves all the time. And it's really weird how guys think that passing gas is the funniest thing in the world. They love to do that thing in front of girls and laugh about it.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girl, Nice, Men

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• We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

  Gale Norton

  Country, Air, Quality

  Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

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• I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

  Adam Oates

  School, Hockey, Years

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• I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

  Lionel Richie

  People, Gas Stations, Fame

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.

  John Slattery

  Limos, Used, Lost

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hydraulic fracking is very much a necessary part of the future of natural gas.

  Ken Salazar

  Fracking, Natural, Natural Gas

  "Mark Ruffalo: It’s Time To Move On From Fracking And Fossil Fuels" by Tom Zeller and Annie Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Our country has suffered from an on-again, off-again energy policy that has failed to get us to energy independence. As President Obama has said, we need a comprehensive energy plan for the country that includes conventional resources like oil and gas, but that also takes advantage of wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and other renewable resources.

  Ken Salazar

  Country, Wind, Oil

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• We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

  Don Tapscott

  Running, Age, Punctuation

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• Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.

  Rachel True

  Mcdonalds, Choices, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.

  Fred Upton

  Past, Discovery, Years

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• First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

  Daniel Yergin

  Vocabulary, People, Firsts

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• We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!

  Frederick Lenz

  Opportunity, Thinking, Self

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• During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took their victims to the incinerators, those who possess and threaten to use nuclear weapons plan to take these weapons - these portable incinerators - to the victims.

  David Krieger

  War, Nuclear, Use

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• States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.

  Gina McCarthy

  Oil, Regulation, Gains

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