People Sniffing Petrol

Famous quotes containing the words people, sniffing and/or petrol:

    ...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.
    Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)

    On her headstone you’ll find this refrain:
    ‘She died as she lived, sniffing cocaine.’
    Unknown. Cocaine Lil (l. 27–28)

    What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
    Simone Weil (1909–1943)