Crude Oil Spilled

Famous quotes containing the words crude, oil and/or spilled:

    “On the pavement
    of my trampled soul
    the soles of madmen
    stamp the prints of rude, crude words.”
    —Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)

    “Is a park any better than a coal mine? What’s a mountain got that a slag pile hasn’t? What would you rather have in your garden—an almond tree or an oil well?”
    —Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)

    “At bottom there is in Joyce a profound hatred for humanity—the scholar’s hatred. One realizes that he has the neurotic’s fear of entering the living world, the world of men and women in which he is powerless to function. He is in revolt not against institutions, but against mankind.... Ulysses is like a vomit spilled by a delicate child whose stomach has been overloaded with sweetmeats.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)