World Oil

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or oil:

“Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don’t get on very well with the world.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“As artists they’re rot, but as providers they’re oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter. And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)