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He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.Collection: Oil
Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.Collection: Oil
It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States.Collection: Oil
And oil's not supposed to mix with water. But then someone invented mayonnaise, and wham - instant mixing.Collection: Oil
A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.Collection: Oil
A little oil makes machinery work easy.Collection: Oil
Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their motive is to attain the appearance of virtue without having actually done anything virtuous.Collection: Oil
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.Collection: Oil
If you had to choose an oil...it would have to be lavender essential oil, because it is antibacterial and antiviral. So, it's great to have when people around you are sick; it can also be used to relax.Collection: Oil
Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.Collection: Oil
Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.Collection: Oil
I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade.Collection: Oil
The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.Collection: Oil
The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.Collection: Oil
Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like ChinaCollection: Oil
A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulationsCollection: Oil
I really wanted to do my own perfume because I mix my own oils, so it just made sense.Collection: Oil
The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and the United States wants to make sure that its own population is kept supplied. The principle effect of this will be for the United States to control large parts of the oil which the world possesses.Collection: Oil
Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it...our psychological beings resonate with it.Collection: Oil
The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil.Collection: Oil
The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that there are at least 5 trillion barrels of petroleum resources, of which 1.4 trillion is sufficiently developed and technically and economically accessible.Collection: Oil
According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development.Collection: Oil
Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.Collection: Oil
We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.Collection: Oil
Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.Collection: Oil
I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil embargo on Iranian oil.Collection: Oil
Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.Collection: Oil
The big risk in Saudi Arabia is that Ghawar's rate of decline increases to an alarming point. That will set bells ringing all over the oil world because Ghawar underpins Saudi output and Saudi undergirds worldwide production.Collection: Oil
Until you change the way money works, you change nothing.Collection: Oil
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 things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is.Collection: Oil
Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor.Collection: Oil
The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.Collection: Oil
We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.Collection: Oil
The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally.Collection: Oil
It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.Collection: Oil
Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.Collection: Oil
Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.Collection: Oil
Had a filling done yesterday with no freezing, natural materials, essentials oils, and homeopathic remedies. We absolutely must push for more holistic biological dentistry.Collection: Oil
We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'Collection: Oil
Every day we hear about a new invention here and there and they are reducing considerably their consumption of oil. But the day they use hydrogen for transportation, this is the day that oil disappears.Collection: Oil
A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this.Collection: Oil
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow.Collection: Oil
The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something - oil, coal, or natural gas - leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.Collection: Oil
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.Collection: Oil
Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.Collection: Oil
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.Collection: Oil
Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.Collection: Oil
Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.Collection: Oil
... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.Collection: Oil