Liquid Quotes - Page 8

• ... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

  Adrienne Rich

  Spiritual, Aquifers, Voice

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Beer, Politics

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.151, Xist Publishing

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• Dark the Night, with breath all flowers,
  And tender broken voice that fills
  With ravishment the listening hours,--
  Whisperings, wooings,
  Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
  In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
  Dark the night
  Yet is she bright,
  For in her dark she brings the mystic star,
  Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,
  From some unknown afar.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Stars, Flower

  George Eliot (19??). “The Complete Works of George Eliot in Eighteen Volumes: Poems”

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• I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black.

  Olivia Wilde

  Cat, Eye, Makeup

  "Olivia Wilde: Jason Sudekis Loves My Hair When It's". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I like to start off my day with a glass of champagne...I like to wind it up with a glass of champagne, too. To be frank, I also like a glass or two in between. It may not be the universal medicine for every disease, as my friends in Reims and Epernay so often tell me, but it does you less harm than any other liquid.

  Fernand Point

  Wine, Glasses, Wind

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• Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Maturity, Age

  Julia Child “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, Рипол Классик

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• Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Angel, Kissing

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• Let the rain kiss you.
  Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
  Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
  The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
  The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
  The rain plays a little sellp-song on our roof at night-
  And I love the rain.

  Langston Hughes

  Running, Song, Spring

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

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• Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Art, Food, Wine

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• Whisky is liquid sunshine.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sunshine, Whiskey, Drink

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• A long-dead angel who thought to own me,” was his enigmatic answer, the silver in his eyes almost liquid. “I tore out his throat. After that, I ate his liver and his heart. The remaining internal organs weren’t as tasty so I gave them to his other creatures.” Elena’s hand tightened on the handle of the knife, conscious Naasir carried gleaming blades of his own in the sheaths strapped to his arms. “I wouldn’t think a vampire who killed an angel would be permitted to live.” A slow, feral smile. “I didn’t say I killed him.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Eye, Angel

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.90, Penguin

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• A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Gratitude, Eye, Feels

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.402, A&C Black

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• His thumb stroked my cheek. My eyes half-closed. When he spoke next, it was very softly, his voice an almost-physical caress against my whole body. My flesh tightened like a harpstring. I swallowed hard against the wave of liquid heat. "How can I possibly be jealous when I know you spent your time grieving for me, Dante?

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Jealous, Eye, Grieving

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• Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another, as full as the dark mass of bodies around me. I feel like the air downstairs has gone to liquid, to sweat and smell and sound, and I have broken apart in it. I am wave: I am pulled into the everything. I am energy and noise and a heartbeat going boom, boom, boom, echoing the drums.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dark, Air, Guitar

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa moaning faintly all day long. That is what I am ready for. I cannot engage in physical activity of any sort or my head will fall right off. Is that what you want Nick? Because if so, I find that hurtful.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Lying, Fall, Long

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• The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

  Donald Sadoway

  Technology, Stories, Batteries

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• In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car windows are down. It raineth on the Just and the Unjust Alike, But the Unjust stealeth the Just's umbrella 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

  Spring, Rain, Fall

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• Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

  Euripides

  Grief, Wine, Sleep

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Eye, Mind

  Paul Caponigro (2002). “New England Days”, p.9, David R. Godine Publisher

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• We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.

  Winston Churchill

  Reflection, Oil, Doubt

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• Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

  Walter Scott

  Revenge, Thinking, Flames

  Sir Walter Scott (1857). “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field”, p.269

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• I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes through the coil. The result was spectacular-a deafening explosion, the apparatus disappeared, all windows were blown in or out, a wall caved in, and thus ended my pioneering experiment on liquid hydrogen cooled coils!

  Nicholas Kurti

  Wall, Science, Expectations

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• Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

  A. S. J. Tessimond

  Cat, Wind, Shadow

  Cats (1934) p. 20

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• I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.

  Liz Greene

  Plato, Fate, Destiny

  Liz Greene (1985). “The Astrology of Fate”, p.14, Weiser Books

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• The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Food, Wine, Juice

  Thomas Love Peacock (1875). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc”

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