Welcome to our collection of drilling quotes, where the words of industry experts, innovators, and leaders in the field resonate with the power, precision, and persistence required in drilling operations. Drilling, whether in the context of oil and gas exploration, mining, or construction, demands a unique blend of technical expertise, ingenuity, and unwavering determination. These quotes encapsulate the essence of this demanding yet essential practice, offering insights, motivation, and reflections on the challenges and triumphs inherent to drilling endeavors.
From the depths of the earth to the heights of technological advancement, drilling has played a pivotal role in shaping civilizations, extracting vital resources, and driving progress across various sectors. As you explore the wisdom shared within these quotes, you’ll gain a deeper appreciation for the complexities and nuances involved in drilling processes. Whether you’re a seasoned professional seeking inspiration or a newcomer curious about the intricacies of the field, these quotes serve as a source of enlightenment and encouragement. Discover the voices that echo through the annals of drilling history, illuminating pathways to success, innovation, and excellence. Embrace their wisdom, and let it guide your journey in the realm of drilling.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. Ernest Hemingway
I support an all of the above energy policy, so that’s not only just Keystone, that’s not only just drilling, that’s clean coal, that’s safe nuclear. Fred Upton
Deep ocean drilling is not new. Phil Gingrey
In Louisiana, we are very familiar with the potential risks associated with offshore drilling and we have not forgotten the lessons learned from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon tragedy. John Bel Edwards
My husband is a natural gas drilling foreman, so I know how important energy jobs are, and I am working hard to protect them from President Joe Biden’s job-killing policies. Lauren Boebert
I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an expected part of the game, but I’ve also heard of the way that safety violations, human and environmental laws, and a concern for the local culture are flaunted in pursuit of money. Alexandra Fuller
If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they’ll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they’ll go drill there. Woody Harrelson
I am committed to working with industry leaders, environmental advocates, and the people of Louisiana on a robust plan that provides much needed protection for our coast and environment and that meets the needs of offshore drilling. John Bel Edwards
Grief, like Covid-19, mutates and escapes the inoculation of both time and the reassurance of loving friends. It is less sledgehammer and more screwdriver, drilling little holes in your head and heart, leaving you haunted by the ifs and buts of your decisions. Barkha Dutt
In D.C., I’ve passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration – our natural storm protection – and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently. Cedric Richmond
Offshore drilling is not the solution to U.S. energy independence, and I am against opening parts of the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans to oil and natural gas production. Deb Haaland
I’m still a reservist. We have three drilling reservists in the Senate. Senator Graham serves in the Air Force, Senator Brown serves in the Army, and I serve in the Navy. Mark Kirk
Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline. Allyson Schwartz
I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies. Lois Capps
To survive in Mumbai, I worked in a drilling firm where I was paid Rs 200, and to earn some extra money I used to do overtime. Dharmendra
Lindsey Graham has wavered on this, but I won’t: We need to ban offshore drilling. A spill off our beaches would destroy jobs and harm the coastal environment that makes South Carolina beautiful. Jaime Harrison
If we don’t act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida’s east coast beaches. Ric Keller
We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas. Mac Thornberry
The fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. Sarah Palin
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Jim Ramstad
The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows. Josh Fox
Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos. Frances Beinecke
It is time to get rid of the harmful and dangerous practice of offshore drilling once and for all. Jeff Van Drew
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills. Sylvia Earle
The United States is deeply concerned by Turkey’s announced intentions to begin offshore drilling operations in an area claimed by the Republic of Cyprus as its Exclusive Economic Zone. Morgan Ortagus
We’re very interested in seeing what science Exxon has been using for its own purposes because they’re tremendously active in offshore oil drilling in the Arctic, for example, where global warming is happening at a much more rapid rate than in more temperate zones. Eric Schneiderman
With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience. Kara Swisher
Offshore drilling is not the answer, it is not going to get us anything. Laurie David
If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I’m worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, ‘cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface, and that could be causing earthquakes. It’s like we’re giving the earth arthritis. I don’t know if that sounds crazy. Debbie Harry
I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you’re supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day. Kate Beckinsale
At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast. Frances Beinecke
We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it’s too risky to develop our own resources while the world around us does exactly that. Lisa Murkowski
Ramesh Ponnuru and others say Obama is a conventional liberal. But conventional liberals don’t come out for the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Conventional liberals don’t return the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. Conventional liberals don’t block oil drilling in America while subsidizing oil drilling in Brazil. Dinesh D’Souza
Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can’t buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can. Frances Beinecke
Eight-man teams drilling expansion bolts in rocks? Sorry, that’s not climbing – that’s engineering. Jeff Lowe
No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric. David Pratt
Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources. Robert Zubrin
America’s neighbors are not drilling for fun or for sport; they’ve chosen to proceed to create new jobs, generate new revenues, and increase the energy supply and prosperity of their citizens. Lisa Murkowski
My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That’s what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget. Herman Cain
Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil. Tahl Raz
Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America’s most treasured landscapes. Lydia Millet
Scientists have suggested that some whale deaths could be a result of marine noise, often a result of military activity, offshore drilling or exploration, which can disorient the animals and send them in the wrong direction, possibly toward beaches where they get stuck instead of into the deeper ocean. Tatiana Schlossberg
If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that’s because, of course, oil is traded on a global market. Jennifer Granholm
Shell Oil’s decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic. Frances Beinecke
The ocean is loud: Ship propellers, sonar, oil and gas drilling and other industrial work make sounds, even if, like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, no one can hear it. Tatiana Schlossberg
I strongly support the construction of the Keystone Pipeline and favor expanding offshore drilling to make our nation less dependent on foreign oil. Thom Tillis
From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we’re gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We’re willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems. Carl Safina
I’ve coached a lot of athletes over the years and it’s not new to me to work with people and create drilling structure and things for them. Josh Barnett
When I finish as the host of ‘Jeopardy!’ I’m going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling. Alex Trebek
But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid. Jeff Goodell
What’s a space elevator? Simply described, it’s a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight. Seth Shostak
If I’m coaching at my academy, and we were drilling the front headlock, we don’t just say, ‘OK, now go five-minute goes,’ because how many tries are they gonna get at going at the front headlock position? Ben Askren
I think… all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can’t really build back doors in crypto. That it’s like drilling a hole in the windshield. Alex Stamos
Politicians of all kinds think there’s some running in talking tough about children’s reading. They think that if they announce to the public that some kind of daily drilling on sounds and letters is to be brought in, the problem of children’s reading will be solved. Michael Rosen
Cargo shipping, cruising, mining, oil drilling, fishing – all these industrial activities could expand to the Arctic, one of the last remaining wild places, and with potentially devastating consequences. Tatiana Schlossberg
Why would even I say we can’t stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else. Carl Safina
In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis. Lois Capps
We’re not building a nuclear reactor here. We’re not drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean with no plan in case something goes wrong. This is making music, this is melodious air and people can hear what goes into it. Gord Downie
I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That’s one of the tax breaks for oil companies – the subsidies – they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill. Dan Benishek
Between my freshman and senior years of high school in the late ’90s, my father spent his evenings, weekends and vacations drilling my best friend and me for our SATs. Thomas Chatterton Williams
I’ve been in a few fights where I keep drilling guys – Carl Froch, those sort of people – and they just keep coming. George Groves
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you’re sparring or drilling techniques, you can’t think of anything else. Joe Rogan
The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’ Robert Greenwald
First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil. Sherwood Boehlert
The fossil fuel industry commands outsize sway over U.S. politics, markets, and democracy. I knew these companies were formidable, but when I served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, I got a close up view of how the industry disregards government safeguards. Frances Beinecke
I’ve often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state’s rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores. Jeff Miller
Our daily habits of driving, drilling, buying and supporting all of the economic benefits a free economy demands has cost us dearly, but none more so than for the people of Shishmaref. Amy J. Berg
I’m so glad I’m not a dentist. How many times does someone say, ‘Oh, Doc, it felt so good when you were drilling my teeth’? Never. But when you give someone a wonderful cookie, you put a little of yourself in, and you see someone’s face light up – that’s immediate approval. Paula Deen
In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. Jeff Goodell
The American Dream is alive and well for some, but not all Americans. Here in South Carolina, rural hospitals are closing, schools are underfunded, and our coasts are threatened by offshore drilling. We need a Senator who’s fighting to improve the lives of South Carolinians rather than focusing on interests in Washington D.C. Jaime Harrison
But for the children of the poorest people we’re stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We’re not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. Jonathan Kozol
The fact that this is what John McCain is suggesting – more offshore drilling and more nuclear power plants? I don’t think so. Not even close. Not even in the ballpark of what we need. Laurie David
I will fight special interests in Washington who exploit Native, rural, and low income communities for the purpose of fracking and drilling that pollutes our environment. No short or long term gain is worth polluting our water. Water is life. Deb Haaland
You learn from your mistakes at the end of the day. We don’t got to keep drilling on the past, things like that. You live and you learn. Dion Waiters
Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. Gloria Swanson
Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a ‘bubble’ brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy? Jeff Goodell
I didn’t understand anything about fracking or horizontal drilling until about 2010, when I first learned about the Eagle Ford. Porter Stansberry
Drilling in the refuge will not solve America’s energy problem. The Energy Department’s own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now. Lois Capps
Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we’re in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks. Sascha Radetsky
There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling. Elizabeth Dole
My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits. Amy Chua
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth. Bono
Maybe this isn’t a common thought that goes through one’s mind when considering children, but I think about the ramifications of climate change and how the extreme weather conditions will only get worse as we keep drilling for oil and fracking for natural gas. Do I want to bring a little human into that mix? Ana Kasparian
A democratically governed national fracking fund should be set up, perhaps similar to what Norway and Alaska have. Areas of drilling should be rented to companies through public tender, with or without subsidies, and a rising share of profits beyond a negotiated upper limit should be deposited in the national capital fund. Guy Standing
There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities. Jack Dangermond
Genomics are about individuals. It’s about what’s specific to you, not your siblings, not your parents – each of us is totally unique. We will only see that uniqueness by drilling down to the genetic code. Craig Venter
Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow. Dan Lipinski