#ted

The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent. ↗

— Gary Miller

#crude #crude oil #demand #depends #driven

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries. ↗

— Mark Crispin Miller

#distorted #industries #marketplace #our #pressures

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#down #had #hard #hard time #kept

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details. ↗

— Joan Miro

#appear #been #characters #colors #details

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#compliment #exactly #fan #filmmaker #frustrated

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. ↗

— John Morley

#because #converted #him #man #silenced

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before. ↗

— Rick Moody

#because #before #big #big deal #character

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat. ↗

— Glenn Turner

#anti-virus #breed #change #combat #conceived

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#career #far #happen #i #knew

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#avert #believe #committed #committing #doubt