Liquid Quotes - Page 2

• Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  Langston Hughes

  Rain, Kissing, Water

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy.

  Gabrielle

  Prayer, Healing, Past

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• It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

  Erica Jong

  Mirrors, Air, Cities

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• Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

  Satish Kumar

  Water, Three, Dry

  "Walking The World For Peace". Interview with Robert Gilman, www.context.org. 1987.

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• Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

  Georges Cuvier

  Long, Water, Mountain

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• To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Flames, Together

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.41, 谷月社

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• It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.

  Shannon Lucid

  Hair, Eyebrows, Use

  ""Living on Mir: An Interview with Dr. Shannon Lucid". Interview with Patrick Meyer, www.encyclopedia.com. March 1998.

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• It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

  Helen Keller

  Women, Sky, Flying

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• I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.

  Paul Lynde

  Couple, Glasses, Vegetables

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• We have the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world.

  John W. Snow

  World

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• On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

  Peter Straub

  Afternoon, Bedtime, Desks

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• Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  Langston Hughes

  Rain, Best Kiss, Kissing Him

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum, strontium, yttrium, and, more recently, of xenon and caesium. It can be shown by simple considerations that this type of nuclear reaction may be described in an essentially classical way like the fission of a liquid drop, and that the fission products must fly apart with kinetic energies of the order of hundred million electron-volts each.

  Lise Meitner

  Xenon, Science, Simple

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• Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

  John Clare

  Air, Gold, Hot

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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• I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odors good or bad, the rainbow of colors; the gleaming vessels of every size, shape and purpose.

  Robert Burns Woodward

  Science, Color, Rainbow

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• Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

  Alan Watts

  Reality, Play, Ideas

  Alan Watts (1999). “Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion”, p.29, Tuttle Publishing

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• We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.

  Lennart Nilsson

  Heart, Technique, Use

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• If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it!

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Buddhist, Drinking, Glasses

  "Real Magic : Creating Miracles in Everyday Life" by Wayne W. Dyer, (p. 123), 2001.

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• Being a mother is the perfect experience for any writer. You learn how to not waste time. The writing hours become incredibly precious and concentrated because the rest of your day is completely packed with diapers, edible liquid foods that look like pooh, tiny bathtubs, and unconditional love.

  Chiara Barzini

  Mother, Writing, Unconditional Love

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• Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Blood, Names

  "Wine Buyers Guide".

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• Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.... Drink some, a little time before or after a meal.

  Ellen G. White

  Water, Littles, Meals

  Ellen G. White (1994). “Healthful Living”, p.226, TEACH Services, Inc.

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• Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Jobs, Today, Fart

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “The Kite Runner”, p.250, A&C Black

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• And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).

  Guy Deutscher

  Animal, Vegetables, Two

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• Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.

  Wendy Doniger

  Mother, Wine, Understanding

  Wendy Doniger (1988). “Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism”, p.135, Manchester University Press

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• Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.

  Edwin Land

  Photography, Years, Cameras

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