Adhesive Quotes

• Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

  Carter Burwell

  Narrative, Film, Subliminal

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• Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Humorous, Names, People

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.51

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• But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

  Randall Munroe

  Stories, Lessons, Icarus

  Randall Munroe (2014). “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions”, p.194, Hachette UK

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• There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

  Isaac Asimov

  Memories

  Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

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• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape.

  Groucho Marx

  Tape, Prevention, Pounds

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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• How does a sesame seed stick to a bun? That's magical. There must be some sesame seed glue out there. Either that or they're adhesive on one side. Peel off the backing, place it on the bun.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Glue

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• Cultivate your sense of humour. On life's journey from nappy rash to denture adhesive, humour is a great pain reliever.

  James Simpson

  Pain, Journey, Age

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• time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Friendship, People, Finding Yourself

  Deborah Eisenberg (2011). “Under the 82nd Airborne: Stories”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shinning through death.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Home, Love Is

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.3, Harmony

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• Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.

  Amy Sedaris

  Ideas, Together, Hobbies

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