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Quotes About Gas

GAS VERSUS PLASMA: In a gas (left), every electron is stuck to an atom. In a plasma (right), the electrons roam free, attracted by nuclei, but not attached to any single nucleus.
~ Charles Seife
Although the rig's crew had, in principle, shut down the flow of oil and gas to the platform, so much
~ Tim Harford
The whale meat was dire. In the end, we fed most of it to Mrs. Rochester. It gave her gas.
~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
a technology fair on cow dung gas stoves was being attended by delegates from all over the
~ Kiran Desai
But anyways I stopped to put gas in it, I haven't started it yet myself
~ Carpenter Greg Zanis
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
~ George W. Bush
Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.
~ George W. Bush
Qhuinn dived into the plane, pulled himself into the pilot's seat, and tried to make sense of all the…fucking hell, there were a lot of dials. The only saving grace he had was that he'd— Rat-tat-tat-tat! —watched enough movies to know that the lever with the grip was the gas and the bow tie–shaped wheel was the thing you pulled up to go up, and pushed down to go down. "Fuck," he muttered as he stayed in a tuck position as much as he could.
~ J R Ward
The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.
~ J.M. Coetzee
They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.
~ Jack Kerouac
We stopped for gas the other side of Sabinas Hidalgo. Here a congregation of local straw-hatted ranchers with handlebar mustaches growled and joked in front of antique gas-pumps. Across the fields an old man plodded with a burro in front of his switch stick. The sun rose pure on pure and ancient activities of human life.
~ Jack Kerouac
It's easier to get funding for a gas station than to start the next Facebook or Twitter in the Mideast.
~ Shervin Pishevar
All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.
~ Albert Speer
Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts
~ Steven Magee
It was stupid for a fugitive terrorist to go to a gas station, but in order to be a fugitive you have to fuge, and it's hard to fuge without gas.
~ Neal Stephenson
In some strange way she was able to ignore the atmosphere of self-satisfaction which poured from him like gas from a leaking pipe.
~ Nella Larsen
There are seven major theories. You want to hear about the underwater methane gas bubble theory?" I had this disturbing image of whales in an underwater locker room lighting farts. I said, "Maybe later.
~ Nelson DeMille
What I took away from my 'Flashforward' experience is that when you're doing a serialized mythology show, you put your foot on the gas, and you do not take it off.
~ Marc Guggenheim
Plath had gassed herself, but that was back before the days of natural gas. Then, stoves and household fires were fuelled by poisonous coal gas. People put their heads in the oven and turned on the gas and they died.
~ Val McDermid
locals' cheerful fatalism. "If you were to go to the gas station in the morning, that might be a good way to convince them to part with a little diesel." "Funny," she said, poking him a little harder
~ Kyle Mills
Clinton ficou desapontado, como é evidente. Julgava que doravante todos os presidentes russos não seriam mais do que uns bravos porteiros de hotel, a guardarem os mais vastos recursos de gás do planeta por conta das multinacionais americanas.
~ Giuliano da Empoli
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
The drivability of an engine is a big part of the setup on a road course. If you can't squeeze the gas down you can't go anywhere.
~ Michael Waltrip
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
~ Robert Ballard