Powder Quotes - Page 8

• Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can. when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the colour and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favour of dirt.

  Sandra Boynton

  Food, Color, Vegetables

  "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

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• There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.

  Elvis Costello

  Cover Ups, Lipstick

  Song: Girls Talk, Album: Get Happy!!, 1980

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• Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Relationship, Break Up, Letting Go

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.34, Allison & Busby

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• A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

  John Cowper Powys

  Islands, Opiates, Poison

  John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon

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• After applying foundation and a little blush, dust your face with translucent powder, then mist skin with a rosewater spray and lay a Kleenex over for a second. It makes your face seem flawless in a way that looks as if you aren't wearing any makeup.

  Liv Tyler

  Makeup, Dust, Skins

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• I shall never forget my admiration for that German pilot, who single handed, fought seven of us for ten minutes. I saw him go into a fairly steep dive and so I continued to watch, and then saw the triplane hit the ground and disappear into a thousand fragments, for it seemed to me that it literally went into powder.

  James McCudden

  Watches, Pilots, Saws

  James McCudden (2009). “Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps”, p.200, Casemate / Greenhill

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• Got my fungal foot powder? Ah, it's a lifesaver, you know. I'd effectively be disabled if it weren't for these.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Feet, Disabled

  Steve Coogan (2003). “Alan Partridge: every ruddy word : all the scripts - from radio to TV and back”

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• My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Mother, College, Thinking

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• The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare Bright pilgrim past our ken, should see Hints of Reality.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dream, Stars, Past

  Edith Sitwell (Dame) (1949). “The canticle of the rose: poems: 1917-1949”

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• I absolutely love my daily driver Ford Raptor, especially since I live out here in the mountains of Park City, so to build out this mountain assault vehicle with a Raptor as the base platform made total sense to me. It's an absolute beast of a machine and I'm stoked with how it's turned out. Next up is for me to take it deep into the backcountry ASAP to help me and some friends slay some powder on our snowboards for a video project due out later this year.

  Ken Block

  Years, Cities, Mountain

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• PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Smell, Noses

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.180, University of Georgia Press

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• Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It can be done; but you do not believe it. You pray to God and keep your powder dry all the time.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Men, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3573, Manonmani Publishers

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• As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sky, Feet, Lakes

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• Still to be neat, still to be drest,
  As you were going to a feast,
  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.
  Lady, it is to be presumed,
  Though art's hid causes are not found,
  All is not sweet, all is not sound.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Art, Causes

  'Epicoene' (1609) act 1, sc. 1

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• But civlyzation doos git forrid
  Sometimes upon a powder-cart.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sometimes, Carts

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.208

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• There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Believe, Men

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• I use Secret... I'm always powder-fresh during the games.

  DeAndre Jordan

  Nba, Games, Secret

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• Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, California, White

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• [On her work in "Keep Your Powder Dry"] I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.

  Laraine Day

  Giving, Dry, Want

  "Laraine Day" by Tom Vallance, www.independent.co.uk. November 13, 2007.

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• Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

  Kirby Larson

  Life, Baking, Biscuits

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.4, Yearling

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• Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.

  James Russell Lowell

  War, Heart, Sometimes

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• According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder stance on the death penalty? We're already killing the guy? How do you take a harder stance on the death penalty? What, are you going to tickle him first? Give him itching powder? Put a thumbtack on the electric chair?

  Jay Leno

  Giving, Guy, Want

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• The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

  William Matthews

  Character, Giving, Anxiety

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• I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be candid, there are some who have too much good sense to esteem such monkey-like animals as these, in whose formation, as the saying is, the tailors and barbers go halves with God Almighty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Men, Half

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.183

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• Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  People, Snow, Effort

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

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