Powder Quotes

• When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

  Julia Child

  Real, Cake, Eggs

  Interview with Polly Frost, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2009.

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• One can never be bored by powder skiing because it is a special gift of the relationship between earth and sky. It only comes in sufficient amounts in particular places, at certain times on this earth; it lasts only a limited amount of time before sun and wind changes it. People devote their whole lives to it for the pleasure of being so purely played by gravity and snow.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Wind, Sky, People

  Dolores Lachapelle (1984). “Earth Wisdom”, Finn Hill Art

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• Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.

  Wendy Doniger

  Spring, Past, Blood

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• There is nothing in the world like going out onto an untouched, open, virgin mountain slope drenched under a thick blanket of new powder snow. It gives a supreme feeling of freedom, mobility. A great sense of flying, moving anywhere in a great white paradise.

  Hans Gmoser

  Moving, White, Snow

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• The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

  Art Buchwald

  Food, Water, Cooking

  New York Herald Tribune, December 29, 1960.

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• We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

  Chief Joseph

  Gun, Bigs, Carried Away

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• A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Peace, War, Sea

  1959 In the NewYork Times, 24May.

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• I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.

  Debi Mazar

  Makeup, People, Said

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• At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Courage, Men, Bravery

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• Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Faith, Evil, Dry

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• Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

  Alan Moore

  Gun, Plot, Reason Why

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• I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Baby, Hockey

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• I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

  Barney Ross

  Gun, Thinking, Bags

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• There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Tired, Mean, Gun

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• When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.

  Catherine Bell

  Fitness, Healthy, Vitamins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

  Louis L'Amour

  Dry, Have Faith, Faith In God

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• All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Fashion, Purple, White

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• I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.

  David Spade

  Fighting, Guy, West Coast

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

  Henry James

  Art, Congratulations, Literature

  Henry James (1996). “Complete Stories, 1892-1898”, p.496, Library of America

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• I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery

  Henry Bessemer

  White, Enough, Made

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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• The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.

  Tim Cahill

  Running, Snow, Sensual

  Tim Cahill (1989). “A Wolverine is Eating My Leg”, Vintage

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• What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

  Art Blakey

  Grind

  KABC-TV Interview, 1983.

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• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Gun, Civilization, Religion

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "The State of German Literature" (1838)

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• Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

  George Axelrod

  Girl, Giving, Gentleman

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• It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Hands, Anxiety, Littles

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