Liquid Quotes

• The past is solid, the future is liquid.

  Jean-Louis Aubert

  Time, Past

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• When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.

  Jesse Ventura

  Drinking, Water, Doe

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• In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth the brain and heateth and helpeth digestion' is made muddy and ill-flavoured! ... You may roast the berries 'to the queen's taste,' and grind them fresh every morning, and yet, if the golden liquid be not prepared in the most immaculate of coffee-pots, with each return of morning, a new disappointment awaits you.

  Janet McKenzie Hill

  Morning, Queens, Disappointment

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• If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

  Caprice Crane

  Glasses, Alcoholics, Ifs

  Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.20, Bantam

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• There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form.

  Thomas Andrews

  Science, Pressure, Temperature

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• You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to a wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide.

  Dorothy Draper

  Wall, Color, Judging

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• Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Maturity, Age

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.91, Knopf

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• I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  Ralph Ellison

  Men, People, Black History

  Invisible Man prologue (1952)

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• From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

  Janet Frame

  Memories, Darkness Within, Light

  Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

  Aristotle

  Sweet, Wine, Science

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.582, Princeton University Press

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• Money: power at its most liquid.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Money Power, Saving Money

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• Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Glasses, Expression, Break Out

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.9, Random House

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• Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.

  John Mica

  Tsa, Shoes, Diapers

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• Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Past, Reality

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• Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Time, Important

  "Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988)". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1987.

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• I can't live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it's easier on my eyes.

  Heather Morris

  Eye, Dark, Plums

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• I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.

  Cat Cora

  Home, Ice Cream, Iron

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• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  Sally Schneider

  Vegetables, People, Water

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• Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.

  Colley Cibber

  Running, Food, Fall

  Colley Cibber (1777). “The Dramatic Works of Colley Cibber ...: In Five Volumes : Volume the Second”, p.211

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• The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Stronger, Skins

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• She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Music, Singing Songs, Voice

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Little Masterpieces”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

  Calvin Trillin

  Jewish Tradition, Giving, Vampire

  Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.64, Random House

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• Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

  Fred Rogers

  Funny, Music, Humor

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• Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Play, Cities

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• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  Quincy Jones

  Frozen, Architecture, Ifs

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