Gas Quotes

#1. The guy said, "Hop in the back." He craned around in his seat and batted stray items aside. Reacher opened the door and slid in and used his hip to finish the job. He closed the door and the woman hit the gas and they took off, cruising easy through the last thirty-some miles of America.

Lee Child

#2. Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside.

Larry The Cable Guy

#3. I've almost got this fire lit," Duncan lied to change the subject.
"It's gas,Duncan," Willa told him. "You just turn a knob."
"Oh." Duncan did as she said, and a bright flame roared up through the fireplace.

Amanda Hocking

#4. For somebody for whom they're going to buy a certain amount of gas irrespective of the price, should they really spend so much time thinking about the price of gas? It doesn't affect anything they do.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#5. If you squeeze and squeeze, and you don't allow the Iranians to sell any oil, then what do they have to lose by shutting the Strait of Hormuz down? And if they do that, that's 35% of all the world's oil that comes through the strait and 20% of the liquefied natural gas in the world.

Steve Hanke

#6. Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.

Dan Millman

#7. After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:
... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.

Felix Alba-Juez

#8. The middle age pair lay in bed sans underwear and genetics played out to the fear of all. She had a hot flash and he passed the gas they both were incinerated in an instantaneous flash of thunder, lightning, motion and force. The needed dental records to identify the corpses.

Byron Haskins

#9. Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

John McCain

#10. I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Huey Newton

#11. My secretary stopped and got gas (Wednesday) for $2.67. (Yesterday at) the same gas station, she got gas again. It was $3.12, ... It has really gotten very, very restrictive to people. It's really hurting ... My impression, of course, is that they have certainly gone up more than they should have.

Andrew Spano

#12. Squirrels always eat nuts with two hands, always two hands, "arararar", and occasionally, they stop and go, oh, uh, ah, as if they're going, "Did I leave the gas on? No! I'm, no I'm a fucking squirrel!" And occasionally they go, "Fucking nuts! Fed up with them always. I long for a grapefruit.

Eddie Izzard

#13. He seemed like the kind of guy who'd need a rest after busily passing gas all day.

Anonymous

#14. I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today.

Bill Richardson

#15. In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

Gary Miller

#16. Perhaps I should notify Ms. Abernethy of a safety hazard in her chemistry classroom.Obviously I had inhaled hallucinatory gas just before she kicked me out.

Jennifer Echols

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!

Shandy L. Kurth

#20. Obama added, . . . So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all the greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

Mark R. Levin

#21. If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

Maria Bartiromo

#22. I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too.

Sandra Steingraber

#23. They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood. What made them amazing wasn't that they had miraculous powers; that they had escaped the ghettos and gas chamges was miracle enough.

Ransom Riggs

#24. In an agreement with China, President Obama has already pledged to reduce America's net greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 25% by 2025. In return, China has agreed to 'peak' its carbon-dioxide emissions in 2030.

John Barrasso

#25. Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

Michael Pollan

#26. We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

Tony Blair

#27. I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

Charles Bukowski

#28. President Bush spoke with the Amish. He didn't want to, but it was the only group he could find that wasn't upset about the high price of gas.

Jay Leno

#29. This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans.

Brian Swimme

#30. Do your analysis of energy costs. Either it comes from windmills and solar or things like nuclear and shale gas. You have to think about how you provide competitive energy for U.K. Ltd.

Jim Ratcliffe

#31. It's hard to store natural gas. And it does require big storage tanks. So it doesn't work very well on passenger cars.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#32. If he ever frosted his hair blue, he'd look like a gas burner.

Ilona Andrews

#33. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

John Hawley

#34. Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

Veerappa Moily

#35. Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

James Adams

#36. 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

#37. Data is just like crude. It's valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc., to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.

Michael Palmer

#38. Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.

Paul Gillmor

#39. They say the road to happiness is a long one, but I was afraid I'd run out of gas before I arrived.

Tina DeCoux

#40. National Democrats often try to pay for something with oil and gas taxes.

Mark Begich

#41. The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

Red Adair

#42. We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas.

Milton Friedman

#43. As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

Mike Rounds

#44. What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use.

Chris Paine

#45. If the gas pedal on your car is shaped like a bare foot, you might be a redneck.

Jeff Foxworthy

#46. From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

Heinrich Heine

#47. Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?

George Carlin

#48. One of the industries we follow very closely is the trucking industry. They would love if today there was an option for them to run their fleets on natural gas, because of the price disparity between oil and refined diesel - which they almost exclusively run on now - and natural gas.

Warren Stephens

#49. Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.

Alexandra Bracken

#50. I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

Esther Williams

#51. Nevertheless, he was already a sick man. He had gotten more than gas at Bill Hapscomb's Texaco. And he gave Harry Trent more than a speeding summons.

Stephen King

#52. Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.

Vladimir Putin

#53. One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much gold from straw as you can from this financial alchemy

Scott Simon

#54. Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.

Mitt Romney

#55. I can't summon anymore gas! Leo warned. The His faced turned red. 'Wow, that came out wrong. I mean the burning kind.

Rick Riordan

#56. Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

Martin Heidegger

#57. To be or not to be" was the telephone number of the municipal gas chambers of the Federal Bureau of Termination.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#58. I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.

Ron Ziegler

#59. Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete.

Rand Paul

#60. When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#61. When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

Laurel Lea

#62. To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.

Christina Baker Kline

#63. It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.

Nic Sheff

#64. My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

George S. Patton

#65. I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.

Alexandra Paul

#66. The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

Daniel Yergin

#67. Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.

David Dixon

#68. I'd love to fly, especially with the gas prices right now.

Joel Gretsch

#69. If we let all the negative roadblocks influence us then it's only a matter of time before we end up detoured, lost, or possibly stranded on the side of the highway. Our positive attitude keeps our battery powered and our gas tank full, so that we can make it in one piece to our destination.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#70. We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.

Woody Hayes

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

Young Jeezy

#72. When I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed
I've been dying all my life

Jenny Downham

#73. Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.

John Burnside

#74. The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.

Ruth Graham

#75. Instead of leaving on a gas-guzzling generator all night, Mama and Papa make a killing by making hard 'n fast love like a couple of blinded down-'n-out mixamatosis rabbits with nothing to live for.

Jonathan Dunne

#76. The future is a blue sky and a full tank of gas.

Neil Hilborn

#77. He's got gas," Aaron explained, his voice muffled by the hand still over his face. "It happens when he eats stuff he's not supposed to."
"It's vile," Camael said, glaring at the dog. "Something should be done so that it never happens again.

Thomas E. Sniegoski

#78. To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

Edith Wharton

#79. Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

Andre Leon Talley

#80. Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations.

Tim O'Reilly

#81. Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.

Frances Beinecke

#82. 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

#83. Oh for God's sake how divine can I be? My feet hurt, I have gas and I need to pee.

John Scalzi

#84. The message I am trying to get across is exactly this: Protecting the environment does not require us to be against large SUVs or trucks. Instead we should develop technology to cut down greenhouse gas emissions because that is where the action is - it's not about what the size of the car is.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#85. Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources.

Jose Angel Gurria

#86. Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation.

Vladimir Putin

#87. You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off - they're not going to miss it.

Kid Rock

#88. Fracking ensures that the age of oil-and it's princely hydrocarbon cousin, the natural gas molecule-will not end because we have run out of fossil fuels. But it may end because burning these wonderful fuels puts the planet farther down a path we don't want to head down

Russell Gold

#89. My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories of faith, hope, triumph, and love. They are stories of perseverance, loyalty, courage in the face of overwhelming odds, and of never giving up!

Livia Bitton-Jackson

#90. Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave:
(1.) I thought it wasn't loaded.
(2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank.
(3.) Killed over Ice Cream

Rachel Caine

#91. An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!

Jim Butcher

#92. My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

Augusten Burroughs

#93. I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

Peter Singer

#94. When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Truman Capote

#95. Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

Jeff Daniels

#96. Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#97. God is not going to send us a bill for solar energy, but the gas industry will.

Joy Baluch

#98. If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

Hollis Frampton

#99. When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

George Carlin

#100. Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.

P. J. O'Rourke