Edwin Drake Quotes

#1. Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

Edwin Drake

#2. I always wanted to rebel.

Kim Gordon

#3. Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

Paulo Coelho

#4. The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Jeff Goodell

#5. Whenever you move to a different team, it's really hard just to get to know each other. The best thing I've found is to just be yourself. They're people like any other people - you just have to get to know them and create that relationship.

John Wes Townley

#6. It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme.

Martin Rees

#7. Perceptions of black criminality aren't likely to change until black behavior changes. Rather than address that challenge, however, too many liberal policy makers change the subject. Instead of talking about black behavior, they want to talk about racism or poverty or unemployment or gun control.

Jason L. Riley

#8. Wavering isn't falling. Wavering and going on when you want to fall, when you want to run away and give up--persevering when everything looks hopeless and the odds seem insurmountable--that's what strength is.

Jane Kindred