Gas Quotes - page 12

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station. (Bill Cosby)
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. View quote
Gus Van Sant
If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
Don't let yourself fall into 'empty.' Keep cash in the house. Keep gas in your tank. Keep an extra roll of toilet paper squirreled away. Keep your phone charged. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
Pay your utilities, gas and other basic needs before paying on your debts. View quote
Dave Ramsey
I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things. View quote
Jack Canfield
I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want? View quote
Janet Evanovich
When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents. View quote
James Surowiecki
Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly. View quote
James Surowiecki
All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them. View quote
Gerald Scarfe
And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks. (Gerald Scarfe)
I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter. View quote
Joe Cocker
Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas. View quote
Don Tapscott
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. View quote
Don Tapscott
There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology. View quote
Evangeline Lilly
Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
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. View quote
Leighton Meester
Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world. View quote
Joan Jett
The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure. View quote
Richard Hammond
Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing! View quote
Don Garlits
The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change. (Yann Arthus-Bertrand)
It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79. View quote
Barbara Castle
It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies. View quote
Naomi Wolf
Robert Parish and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are the two reasons I became a vegetarian fully in the first place. They where the first ones I saw and I was 27 at the time and there was an article about Robert Parish and one of his martial art forms and I remember playing against this guy and asking him how he was running up and down the court with me and I was in my twenties. He said, "you have to learn to pace yourself young fella". ... Then I would go, "well then your car has no gas" and I thought about that. So at 27 I made the change. ... I had a good career but Robert Parish had a view to look at stats and a better career. If I would have known how to take care of my body ... then I would have played until I was 40 as well. View quote
John Salley
The big mistake most commonly made today is that when we speak of transportation we think only of persons and goods. We forget the existence of water, clean or otherwise, moving in pipes, of gas, oil, electricity, messages, the telephones etc. The result is that we waste a lot of space and Networks. View quote
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis