“ True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 2.8K
“ What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations. ”
- Charles Abrams- Copy
- 2.9K
“ How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing. ”
- Neville Chamberlain- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I have been trying to find gas masks for dogs. I have a vet friend who said that somebody in his office got some. ”
- Shannon Elizabeth- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. ”
- Jane Fonda- Copy
- 1.5K
“ In Maidanek, Poland, there was only one place where the children were treated kindly; at the entrance to the gas chamber each one was handed a sweet. ”
- Gideon Hausner- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Hydrogen is a colorless, odorless gas which, given enough time, turns into people. ”
- Henry Hiebert- Copy
- 1.1K
“ If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas. ”
- Gus Van Sant- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now. ”
- Grant Show- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. ”
- Joey Bishop- Copy
- 779
“ God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months. ”
- Bill Tammeus- Copy
- 671
“ I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. ”
- Harrison Ford- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. ”
- Earl Wilson- Copy
- 757
“ No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined. ”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 2.4K
“ When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 44
“ The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand. ”
- Joan Baez- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
- 2.8K
“ You must remember to compare benefits versus costs. For the foreseeable future, the only affordable alternatives are coal, natural gas, oil or nuclear. Renewable sources - solar, wind, etc. - so favored by the left remain prohibitively expensive. A nation becomes weaker, not stronger, by artificially overspending on costly, inefficient alternatives to fossil fuels. ”
- Larry Elder- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Prevarication is the absolute essence of any endeavour, but it's not just writing novels, it could be the situation of paying a gas bill. People will basically do anything to avoid doing the thing that they're supposed to be doing. ”
- Ben Elton- Copy
- 2.5K
“ To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothing with him, then that's boyfriend material for me. Like if we're able to have fun at a gas station. I've had some really good times at gas stations. ”
- Alyson Hannigan- Copy
- 234
“ I don't see myself as an international megastar. I still put the rubbish out late at night-sometimes in only my underpants. Mind you, nowadays I have a good look around to make sure there is no one there. I just think this whole star thing is a gas and I think the neighbors think it's pretty funny as well… ”
- Damon Hill- Copy
- 532
“ Plans are being discussed as to who will replace Dick Cheney if he has to resign for health reasons. It's not easy for President Bush, he can't just name a replacement. He would first have to be confirmed by the oil, gas and power companies. ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
- 3K
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