Oilers Quotes & Sayings

Trust was a word you couldn't translate. But the atevi had fourteen words for betrayal. — C.J. Cherryh

The worm does not his work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame. — Charles Dickens

My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. It reads, 'I'm With Her.' I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads, 'I'm with you - the American people.' — Donald Trump

All the sea-gods are dead.
You, Venus, come home
To your salt maidenhead ... — Allen Tate

Like a child at the cinema, we get caught up in the illusion. From this comes all of our vanity, ambition, and insecurity. We fall in love with the illusions we have created and develop excessive pride in our appearance, our possessions, and our accomplishments. It's like wearing a mask and proudly thinking that the mask is really you. — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York Yankees or the Houston Oilers, or what label "Hang On Sloopy" by The McCoys was on, you are capable of remembering the differences between a gerund (verb form used as a noun) and a participle (verb form used as an adjective). — Stephen King

Any place you don't want to stay becomes your prison! That's why there are many prisoners all around the world who look like free men! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers ... What for? Houston isn't on our schedule. — Bum Phillips

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team. — Bum Phillips

On his attempt at the Edmonton Oilers empty net: I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line. — Patrick Roy

I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless. — Harold Prince

I look at you and my heart beats faster and my stomach gets butterflies in that annoying teenage crush way. When you do nice shit for me, I want more. I'm selfish that way. — Bijou Hunter

Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys ... or Oilers. — Chuck Noll

As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight. — Jimmy Carter

A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation. — Edward McKendree Bounds