Rock Oil

Rock oil can refer to either:

  • Naphtha
  • Petroleum, which literally means "rock oil"
  • Rock oil (Scotland) - a substance gathered off sea rocks and used medicinally

Famous quotes containing the words rock and/or oil:

    “So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can’t even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.”
    —Russell Baker (b. 1925)

    “I became increasingly anarchistic. I began to find people of my own class vicious, people in clean collars uninteresting. I even accepted smells, personal as well as official. Everyone who came to the studio smelled either of machine oil or herring.”
    —Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)