28 Drilling Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. Ernest Hemingway

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Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos. Frances Beinecke

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The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows. Josh Fox

I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an expected part of the game, but I've also heard of the way that safety violations, human and environmental laws, and a concern for the local culture are flaunted in pursuit of money. Alexandra Fuller

Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline. Allyson Schwartz

Maybe this isn't a common thought that goes through one's mind when considering children, but I think about the ramifications of climate change and how the extreme weather conditions will only get worse as we keep drilling for oil and fracking for natural gas. Do I want to bring a little human into that mix? Ana Kasparian

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If I'm coaching at my academy, and we were drilling the front headlock, we don't just say, 'OK, now go five-minute goes,' because how many tries are they gonna get at going at the front headlock position? Ben Askren

Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else. Carl Safina

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Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic. Frances Beinecke

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Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. Gloria Swanson

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In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. Jeff Goodell

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If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, oil is traded on a global market. Jennifer Granholm

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I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Jim Ramstad

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But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. Jonathan Kozol

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With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience. Kara Swisher

I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day. Kate Beckinsale

Day You Noise People Pet Rude All Day Eating More Drilling Could Outside Like Supposed Noises Talking Making Loudly Than Anybody Being Movie Theater Movie Theater Asleep Here

America's neighbors are not drilling for fun or for sport; they've chosen to proceed to create new jobs, generate new revenues, and increase the energy supply and prosperity of their citizens. Lisa Murkowski

Prosperity Energy Increase Neighbors Jobs Citizens Drilling Generate Supply New Sport Revenues New Jobs America Proceed Energy Supply Create Fun Chosen

We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it's too risky to develop our own resources while the world around us does exactly that. Lisa Murkowski

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis. Lois Capps

Reality Energy Our Way Crisis Solve Drilling Dirtiest Most Expensive

Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes. Lydia Millet

Wilderness Wildlife Mining Corridor Drilling Area Rivers Over Most Blocking Endangered America Oil Polluting Creating Landscapes Coal Treasured

I'm so glad I'm not a dentist. How many times does someone say, 'Oh, Doc, it felt so good when you were drilling my teeth'? Never. But when you give someone a wonderful cookie, you put a little of yourself in, and you see someone's face light up - that's immediate approval. Paula Deen

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The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. Sarah Palin

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