Liquid Quotes

• There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form.

  Thomas Andrews

  Science, Pressure, Temperature

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• The past is solid, the future is liquid.

  Jean-Louis Aubert

  Time, Past

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• Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Time, Important

  "Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988)". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1987.

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• You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to a wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide.

  Dorothy Draper

  Wall, Color, Judging

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• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  Quincy Jones

  Frozen, Architecture, Ifs

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• Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

  Fred Rogers

  Funny, Music, Humor

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• Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Play, Cities

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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.

  Langston Hughes

  Rain, Kissing, Water

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Glasses, Expression, Break Out

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.9, Random House

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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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• 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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• 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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