Liquid Quotes - Page 5

• Today, natural gas now outstrips coal as the leading provider of electricity in America. If this is as big as people believe it is, natural gas will soon be powering trucks and marine ships. Maybe even standard commercial cars that people use at home through compressed natural gas, other gas to liquids. The potential is there for more energy independence by America and a reliance on cleaner fuel - natural gas emits half as much as coal, in terms of carbon emissions. That's a real bounty.

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, Believe, Home

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• Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.

  Heloise

  Turkeys, Cups, Assuming

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• I resolve not to drink liquids before donning the Bat-suit.

  George Clooney

  Suits, Bats, Drink

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• He said that faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass is small, and it's easy to fill up. But the older you get, the bigger the glass gets, and the same amount of liquid doesn't fill it anymore. Periodically, the glass has to be refilled.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Glasses, Water, Dogma

  "Fictional character: Liz". "Dogma", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're ever more intimidated and frustrated by it. We engineer drainage and removal of water and liquid wastes from society to prevent hazardous buildup, but the effluent that pours into our offices-paper-is never flushed out.

  Don Aslett

  Water, Office, Frustrated

  Don Aslett (2004). “The Office Clutter Cure”, p.2, Adams Media

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• Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Alcohol, Monarchs

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.120, Lulu.com

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• When managers are afraid of redemptions, they get liquid. We all saw how many managers went from leveraged long in 2007 to huge net cash in 2008, when the right thing to do in terms of value would have been to do the opposite.

  Seth Klarman

  Opposites, Long, Redemption

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• At equal returns, public investments are generally superior to private investments not only because they are more liquid but also because amidst distress, public markets are more likely than private ones to offer attractive opportunities to average down.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Average, Return

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• Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat.

  Tom Colicchio

  Use, Nitrogen, Want

  "The Hot Seat: Tom Colicchio". Interview with Billie Cohen, www.timeout.com. November 11 2008.

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• Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive virtue on the part of investment institutions to concentrate their resources upon the holding of 'liquid' securities. It forgets that there is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Community, Doctrine, Forget

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.139, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

  Barton Gellman

  Army, Skins, Nerves

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• If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

  Suzanne Vega

  Rushing, Silence, Would Be

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• The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

  Samuel Wilson

  States, Continuity, Modernity

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• Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her brought deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling waves in the magic of the summer clouds and glorious sunshine;-no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.

  Washington Irving

  Beautiful, Summer, Country

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• The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

  Mark Millar

  Glasses, Air, Half

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• Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.

  J. D. Salinger

  Joy

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• Why is it lemon juice contains mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• The Thames is liquid history.

  John Burns

  History, Thames

  To an American who had compared the Thames disparagingly with the Mississippi, in 'Daily Mail' 25 January 1943

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• Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.

  Douglas Adams

  Alcohol, Sugar, Form

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• The moon... is a mass, akin to the mass of the earth, attracts the waters by a magnetic force, not because they are liquid, but because they possess earthy substance, and so share in the movements of a heavy body.

  Johannes Kepler

  Moon, Water, Substance

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• Physical heat sometimes accompanies the filling of the Spirit and people experience it in their hands or some other part of their bodies. One person described a feeling of 'glowing all over'. Another said she experienced 'liquid heat'. Still another described 'burning in my arms when I was not hot'.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Glowing, Hands, People

  Nicky Gumbel (2003). “Alpha - Questions of Life”, p.146, Kingsway Publications

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• Science is starting to show that our brains are less able to detect calories in liquids. So, people in the know, including food industry executives, when they run into health trouble, the first thing they do is cut calories out of all the liquids that they drink as a way of maintaining their weight.

  Michael Moss

  Running, Cutting, People

  "Salt Sugar Fat: NY Times Reporter Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food". www.democracynow.org. March 1, 2013.

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• If there is something to permit the distinction between "solid" and "liquid" phases of modernity (that is, arranging them in an order of succession), it is the change in both the manifest and latent purpose behind the effort.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Order, Effort, Purpose

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• It is so true that in liquid modernity freedom was, so to speak, let off the leash, and for a quite a number of years the freedom of choice was "in principle" unlimited. One result was the weakening of inter-human bonds, particularly inherited bonds, and the counterfactual assumption that individuals must and can fend for themselves.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Years, Numbers, Choices

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• You need to either create a slurry in a cold liquid, which also works with cornstarch, or you've got to do your gravy in a very wide pan and kind of scatter the flour over the top and then very quickly whisk it in.

  Alton Brown

  Needs, Cold, Kind

  "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.

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