Bitumen Quotes

#1. Twelve barrels of water are required to make one barrel of bitumen. This produces 400 million gallons a day of toxic wastewater at the tar sand mines.

Samuel Avery

#2. We are but older children, dear,
Who fret to find our bedtime near.

Lewis Carroll

#3. Sailors approaching the coast in a fog can recognize the Santa Barbara Channel by the smell of bitumen which floats on the water.

Caroline C. Leighton

#4. Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

Stanislaw Lem

#5. With men one could have clever, uplifting conversations, and men understood the work of an artist; but everything else-idle talk, tenderness, playfulness, love, contentment unmarred by thought-did not flourish among men; for that there had to be women and new places and constantly new impressions.

Hermann Hesse

#6. The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

Geoff Mulgan

#7. Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.

Andrew Nikiforuk

#8. I need a dose of the natural environment on a regular basis. It balances the bitumen and high rises of Collins Street.

Simon McKeon

#9. WL's [White Liberals] think all the world's problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don't believe that. There's a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It's what separates us from roaches

Paul Farmer

#10. It looked like I'd sold my pottage for a mess of afterbirth, as the saying is. I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped on.

Jim Thompson

#11. Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?

Andrew Nikiforuk

#12. Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"

"My favorite character died.

Joyce Rachelle

#13. Today I will focus on priorities and ignore the unimportant crap

Jayne Ann Krentz

#14. Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

Alanis Morissette

#15. The whole of life, its masters, its adventurers, then appeared in long ranks of magnificent human beings behind me; and I was the inheritor; I, the continuer; I, the person miraculously appointed to carry it on.

Virginia Woolf

#16. Get your ass over here right now, you motherfucking scary movie pusher.

Alice Clayton

#17. It doesn't have to be pretty, as long as it's good.

Tyffani Clark Kemp

#18. It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find.

Laura Dave

#19. From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can create jobs in value added, in tax revenues for all Canadians.

N. Murray Edwards

#20. I actually think there is hell because we see hell every day.

Rob Bell