Browsing Topic Best Petrol Quotes

No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, ‘You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.’ He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.

Gerard Houllier’s thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you’re expected to be nice about it.

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 like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I’d only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.

Someone threw a petrol bomb at Alex Higgins once and he drank it!

Sex is like petrol. It’s a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship.

A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you’re going and that’s all you need.

I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn’t know there were service stations on the motorway. I pulled up on the hard shoulder and got my cans out. Then I filled up and set off again. That’s how naive I was – so much not a cosmopolitan girl.

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

I’m always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, ‘Oh, yes, there it is!’ It’s like petrol.

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.

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.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That’s what keeps me going.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

D’you know, I put so much petrol in me car the other day, I couldn’t get in!

The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

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.

I can’t go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It’s tough but I knew that was going to be the case.