Billy Nungesser quotes

“They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.”
-- Billy Nungesser

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“We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all over your face?”
-- Billy Nungesser

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“We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.”
-- Billy Nungesser

Source : "Gulf oil spill: 'Everybody's lost hope'". usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 31, 2010.

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“If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.”

“I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata.”

“Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.”

“I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.”

“I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.”

“Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!”

Source : Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

“I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.”

“Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.”

“Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.”

“They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.”

Source : Iris Johansen (2003). “Dead Aim”, p.186, Bantam