Fuel Oil Heat

Famous quotes containing the words fuel, oil and/or heat:

    I had an old axe which nobody claimed, with which by spells in winter days, on the sunny side of the house, I played about the stumps which I had got out of my bean-field. As my driver prophesied when I was plowing, they warmed me twice,—once while I was splitting them, and again when they were on the fire, so that no fuel could give out more heat. As for the axe,... if it was dull, it was at least hung true.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
    Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    I have a blood bolt
    and I have made it mine.
    With this man I take in hand
    his destiny and with this gun
    I take in hand the newspapers and
    with my heat I will take him.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)