Petroscape Quotes

#1. Back above ground, like robotic versions of the mosques and minarets that grace the shores of Istanbul's Bosphorus, Houston's petroscape of domed white tanks and silver fractioning towers spreads along the banks of its Ship Channel.

Alan Weisman

#2. Life chucks a bunch of stuff at us, stuff we have no control over, but we can decide how to handle it all. We shape our lives with the choices we make.

Cathy Cassidy

#3. I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.

John Oliver

#4. To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

Richard P. Feynman

#5. The Jewish culture - people that are Jewish have a certain cultural habit that they've formed and one of those habits is an appreciation of theater and music - these are cultural things one does associate with values that are promulgated by Jewish families. I think that's a good thing.

Woody Allen

#6. The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

Sherry Argov

#8. Your mind ... can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

Demi Lovato

#9. It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. I stop in front of Olivia and cup her face in my hands, kissing her sweetly on the mouth. She looks up at me with her liquid eyes and something in me melts away. I think to myself that I hope it wasn't something important. Something that I needed.

M. Leighton

#11. You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

Philip Dunne

#12. I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

Jacqueline Novogratz