Gasoline Quotes

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Maggie Stiefvater
“The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.”
Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

Robert A. Heinlein
“ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.”
Robert Heinlein

Carl Sagan
“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives.”
Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

A.J. Darkholme
“Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.”
A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

Edward Abbey
“Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.”
Edward Abbey, Down the River

Francisco X. Stork
“God's love descends on some like dew on a flower, blessed be He, but sometimes we trudge along our comfortable lives and bam, He descends on us like a splash of gasoline... and then He strikes a match.”
Francisco X. Stork

Sarah J. Sloat
“God have pity on the smell of gasoline
which finds its way like an arm
through a car window,
more human than kerosene,
more unctuous, more manly.”
S. Jane Sloat, In the Voice of a Minor Saint

Jarod Kintz
“Gasoline-scented soap is a great idea that’s a terrible idea. Plus, if I made soap that smelled like petroleum, The US Military would invade my shower and kill me.”
Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

Luke  Taylor
“The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.”
Luke Taylor, Shatterpoint Alpha

Jarod Kintz
“Cars have run on gasoline for over a century. It’s time we get advanced and start powering them with Duck Soup.”
Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

Jarod Kintz
“Everyone loves the smell of gasoline, but do you think it would make a good scent in a soap?

Gasoline-scented soap is a great idea that’s a terrible idea. Plus, if I made soap that smelled like petroleum, The US Military would invade my shower and kill me.”
Jarod Kintz, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

Philipp Meyer
“The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when they got home their houses would be cold and they'd press a button on a wall to get warm, the whole time complaining about big oil.”
Philipp Meyer, The Son

“We don't need Water, we need Fuel " for the future”
Napolean Rajendran

Steven Magee
“President Trump is pouring gasoline onto the fire of George Floyd.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“Gasoline became a prized commodity after hurricane Ian.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“The hurricane Ian recovery was fueled by fossil fuels!”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“Flooding does not appear to be making the gasoline cars go on fire like the electric cars do.”
Steven Magee