#oil

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

#being #big #big companies #companies #garbage

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#behind #flush #get #go #high

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil. ↗

— Peter Brook

#big #bit #boil #cauldron #coming

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#common #common sense #dependent #effort #foreign

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#concludes #fame #life #much #pursuit

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#basic #floors #how #i #i can

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce. ↗

— David Byrne

#emotional #go #lot #obviously #through

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike. ↗

— James Cagney

#because #bike #cars #especially #i