Oil Field Roughneck Quotes & Sayings

I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance. — Marcel Duchamp

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power. — Ambrose Bierce

Practice is the path of mastery. — George Leonard

High end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude. — Tom Peters

When we open our hands and take that which is offered to us, we are not only receiving the thing offered, but we are receiving the person. — Emily P. Freeman

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature. — Carlo Petrini

But in all times men have been prone to believe that their happiness and well-being were to be secured by means of institutions rather than by their own conduct. Hence the value of legislation as an agent in human advancement has always been greatly over-estimated — Anonymous

Never despair. Never surrender. — Alan Moore

Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it. — Jonathan Winters

More than once Nynaeve had been shocked at her own cruelty, even while she was delighted at her inventiveness. — Robert Jordan

The story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all — Frederick Buechner

I do believe, especially with the character of Batman, that the tone and the mood of the book is 80% of the job right there. And the more control I had over the story, the more control I had over the tone and the mood. — David Finch