Oil Slick

Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or slick:

“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)

“Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)