Penetrating Oil Quotes & Sayings

I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow. — Bryce Anderson

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. — Julia Child

You see, Adrian, we do many things. We assign meaning to some, and think of others as lacking it. But who's to tell when we're right - and when we're wrong? — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

A human being is like a television set with millions of channels ... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel. — Jack Gleeson

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet. — Wernher Von Braun

To recover from the current economic downturn, it has been estimated that we need to create on the order of 17 million to 20 million new jobs in the coming decade ... And it's very hard to imagine where those jobs are going to come from unless we seriously get busy reinventing manufacturing. — Susan Hockfield

But of course he knew, all of them knew. There is only one kind of a person a wizard can marry, and that is a witch. — Eva Ibbotson

Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole. — Michelle Obama

Peale was a lover of birds, and yet did not hesitate to kill them in large numbers for no better reason than that it interested him to do so. — Bill Bryson

There is nothing missing. — Alan Cohen

I revise my suicide plan to slow death by morphling. I will become a yellow-skinned bag of bones, with enormous eyes. I'm a couple of days into the plan, making good progress, when something unexpected happens. I begin to sing. At the window, in the shower, in my sleep. Hour after hour of ballads, love songs, mountain airs. All the songs my father taught me before he died, for certainly there has been very little music in my life since. What's amazing is how clearly I remember them. The tunes, the lyrics. My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in. Days pass, weeks. I watch the snows fall on the ledge outside my window. And in all that time, mine is the only voice I hear. What — Suzanne Collins

You have the potential to make healthy choices and balance your priorities no matter where you are on your life journey. — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices. — Andrew Davies