Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'.

— Joey Adams

When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the physical world, so you need some oil for alacrity, in order to get to your destination. The greater the quantity of your oil, the more you cover the distance, and the more you cover the distance, the closer you get to your success.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

— Peter DeFazio

By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation's prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant supply of cheap oil.

— Albert Marrin

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

— James Woolsey

The jar shall never ceased to be filled with oil.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't be discouraged when your life boils hot. With just a little more toil, you'll reap from the soil. More oil to your elbows. Stay awake and make it happen!

— Israelmore Ayivor

The ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.

— Cameron Conaway

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

— Al Gore

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

— Tony Snow