Tanker Quotes

#1. If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.

Kurt Cobain

#2. On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.

Annie Jacobsen

#3. I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!

Abraham Polonsky

#4. In dire times of survival it's not uncommon for people to turn to their faith and that was also true for the men on the oil tanker Pendleton, which was cut in half by 60-foot waves during the hurricane.

Jim Whittaker

#5. Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

Roald Dahl

#6. do not fear the tanker but the fuel that is in the tanker

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. A couple of days ago, I saw a rig big enough to haul that tanker. You wanna get outta here? You talk to me.

Terry Hayes

#8. Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.

Rose George

#9. Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.

Pete Gill

#10. This means the last few years of hard-drive production - which, thanks to increasing size, represents the majority of global storage capacity - would just about fill an oil tanker. So, by that measure, the Internet is smaller than an oil tanker.

Randall Munroe

#11. Ah, Jenks? It's not a lake, it's a friggin' freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we came into town? The wake from it could tip us. I'm not canoeing it unless your name is Pocahontas.

Kim Harrison

#12. And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.

Benjamin Kane Ethridge

#13. By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

Dave Barry

#14. When you grow up around people who don't speak very much, what they do say to you is indelible.

Hope Jahren

#15. Everything I've set out to do, I've achieved, and all the praise goes to God.

Tyson Fury

#16. Deal. Mrs. B belongs in the Guinness Book of World Records on many counts. Signing a non-compete at 99 merely adds one more.

Warren Buffett

#17. A writer is someone who has no choice

Andrew Updegrove

#18. Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

Richard John Neuhaus