Quotes About Gasoline

What a shame to convince these flames they are only sparks; what a misfortune to say this fire is a flame. You, have always been gasoline, stop pretending I haven't always been the match.

I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.

I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back.

The only human beings in the neighborhood who were not looking forward to a happy day were members of the local constabulary, for it seemed pretty certain that a good many otherwise law-abiding people would come in motor cars, burning gas that had been allotted them for domestic purposes only, and the English bobby does not fancy himself in the role of Gestapo official.

So we get a plan, I said. Any suggestions? Blow up the building, Kincaid said without looking up. That works good for vampires. Then soak what's left in gasoline. Set it on fire. Then blow it all up again. For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite.

The gasoline at the two pumps is an overpriced brand he's never heard of, and the building housing the store is fissured pale-yellow stucco with a blue ceramic-tile roof.

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated cows floating by, survivors huddled on rooftops. Thousands have drowned. Global warming is held accountable: People must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual.

Come here and look out this window. You see that contraption down there?" Frank pointed at an automobile sputtering down the street. "I think people are going to buy quite a few of these new buggies and they need gasoline to make 'em go. It may be the thing of the future. There might only be a few gas wagons now, but someday there will be millions of the things. Oil is only twenty-eight cents a barrel right now. But what will it be in ten years?