Words matter. These are the best Petrol Quotes from famous people such as Alycia Debnam-Carey, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Joanna Lumley, Ashley Roberts, Susan George, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Once electricity and petrol and facilities and food stop, society stops. It’s crazy.
When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.
In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.
Actually going to the supermarket to get my own groceries was a revelation. I’d never had to fill the fridge before, do my laundry, put petrol in my car. It was scary – but there was a kind of joy about it, too.
I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.
We want to encourage a move away from polluting vehicles, aiming to ban new diesel and petrol cars by 2030, and expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It’s just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway’s postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she’s got oil-based Tourette’s.
If cars and buses were attacked daily by petrol bombs or stones for 16 months in Washington, could you imagine it would be tolerated? It would not, because in the name of democracy, to preserve democracy, steps would be taken.
As I can testify, living in a foreign country takes you way out of your comfort zone. It’s the little things, like ordering food in a different language, buying petrol or learning to drive on the other side of the road, but they all add up to making you a more rounded, educated person.
Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.
I’ve been recognised in garages. I’ll be paying for my petrol, and I’ll see this guy looking at me, thinking, ‘Is it him?’ Then he’ll be looking at my car: ‘No, he couldn’t be driving that car.’ I’ve actually had two people say to me:,’Hello Dominic, I thought you might have a better car than that, mate!’
The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did.
When it comes to watches, it’s ironic that you can spend thousands on an exquisitely made mechanical watch, and yet it will be less accurate than a five-quid digital bought from a petrol station.
Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.
Driving a car is no longer about zooming down clear lanes, the joy and freedom of the road flowing through your hair like a fine westerly breeze. It’s about solid traffic, petrol fumes, spy cameras, eco-guilt, and simultaneous social media.
I ask myself, ‘Why can’t a truck driver have the right to carry a gun?’ Just think about it; put yourself in the shoes of a truck driver. He nods off at the petrol station… and when he wakes up the next day, his spare tyre has gone.
Once electricity and petrol and facilities and food stop, society stops. It’s crazy.
The town I grew up in, there were no musicians to play with; it was just me. The town I grew up in, there was two shops: like, a paper shop that sells confectionery, sweets and stuff, and, like, a farm supplies and a petrol station. That was literally it.
Saving petrol is saving India’s money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That’s what keeps me going.
Actually going to the supermarket to get my own groceries was a revelation. I’d never had to fill the fridge before, do my laundry, put petrol in my car. It was scary – but there was a kind of joy about it, too.
Driving a car is no longer about zooming down clear lanes, the joy and freedom of the road flowing through your hair like a fine westerly breeze. It’s about solid traffic, petrol fumes, spy cameras, eco-guilt, and simultaneous social media.
When I was busking, when I was paying for petrol with silver coins or when I was sneaking into hostels so I could park my van up and sleep in it, I had the best time of my life.
We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.
I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That’s what keeps me going.
Reliance has built a refinery-led energy business and a materials business. In the energy business, we give 2% of the world’s petrol, diesel, and aviation fuel.
Saving petrol is saving India’s money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
I’m an adrenaline junkie but also a petrol head.
As I can testify, living in a foreign country takes you way out of your comfort zone. It’s the little things, like ordering food in a different language, buying petrol or learning to drive on the other side of the road, but they all add up to making you a more rounded, educated person.
Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.
The town I grew up in, there were no musicians to play with; it was just me. The town I grew up in, there was two shops: like, a paper shop that sells confectionery, sweets and stuff, and, like, a farm supplies and a petrol station. That was literally it.
When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.
We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.
The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world – the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states – was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don’t waste petrol.
I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.
When it comes to watches, it’s ironic that you can spend thousands on an exquisitely made mechanical watch, and yet it will be less accurate than a five-quid digital bought from a petrol station.
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway’s postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she’s got oil-based Tourette’s.
I ask myself, ‘Why can’t a truck driver have the right to carry a gun?’ Just think about it; put yourself in the shoes of a truck driver. He nods off at the petrol station… and when he wakes up the next day, his spare tyre has gone.
I remember a picture on the front page of the ‘Sun’ during the Brixton riots: a rasta guy with a petrol bomb, and a headline saying something like: ‘The Future of Britain.’ And I thought: ‘Wow! Look at the power of that image,’ and I wanted to get behind the camera to make these people three-dimensional.
The cost of motoring is a massive issue at the moment, there’s no question. The price of petrol goes up every time you go to the petrol station.
The cost of motoring is a massive issue at the moment, there’s no question. The price of petrol goes up every time you go to the petrol station.
In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.
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