Tar Quotes
41 Tar quotes by 37 unique authors
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Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over…
— Sean Covey
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The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these…
— Rudolf Diesel
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Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green,…
— Ernest Hemingway
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And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the…
— Stephen King
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the…
— Unknown Author
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We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny…
— Sol Saks
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... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market…
— Unknown Author
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Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
— Jeff Goodell
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Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form…
— Thomas Homer-Dixon
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[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not…
— George Berkeley
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The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would…
— James Hansen
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Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and…
— Bert Campaneris
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Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low energy. Low calories.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at…
— Margaret MacMillan
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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes…
— Eric Hoffer
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Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.
— Bill Geist
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Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline…
— Jeff Goodell
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The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They…
— Martin Caidin
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I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day.
— Mitch Hedberg
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I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar…
— Chris Isaak
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Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.
— David Lynch
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There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time.…
— T. Boone Pickens
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Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we,…
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar
— Melvin Burgess
Who Wrote These Tar Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 41 Tar Quotes, led by these top contributors: