Liquid Quotes - Page 9

In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius.

Okakura Kakuzo

Sweet, Queens, Ivory

Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing

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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

Zygmunt Bauman

Modern Life, Circumstances, Permanent

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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.

Tom Petty

Alcohol, Drug, Naked

Song: Echo

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We may indeed live yet to see, or at least we may feel some confidence that those who come after us will see, such bodies as oxygen and hydrogen in the liquid, perhaps even in the solid state, and the question of their metallic or non-metallic nature thereby finally settled.

Thomas Andrews

Science, Oxygen, Body

Thomas Andrews (1889). “The Scientific Papers of the Late Thomas Andrews ...”

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I love creme liner because I have lash extensions and sometimes the liquid liner can get into the lashes. It's also easier to guide. I can create straighter lines with it.

Meagan Good

Lines, Sometimes, Easier

"‘Think Like A Man’ Star Meagan Good Dishes on Beauty Musts". Interview with Kimberly Walker, www.ebony.com. April 20, 2012.

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Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.

Don McLean

Philosophy, Sea, Rivers

Song: Tapestry

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My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.

Michael Lee-Chin

Growing, Wealth, Individual

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Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release.

Kiersten White

Grief, Eye, Flames

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I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.

Marc Rich

Top Management, Two, Growth

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I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

Leymah Gbowee

War, People, Water

"Peace activist Leymah Gbowee". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 5, 2011.

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It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.

Paul McEuen

Wall, Vacuums, Atoms

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Tears are liquid love.

Peter Shepherd

Wisdom, Tears

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I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Moving, Science, Men

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Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!

Edgar Allan Poe

Moon, Night, Turtles

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bells”

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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

Alexander Pope

Moving, Clouds, Eagles

Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.135, Delphi Classics

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O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

John Milton

Strong, Wine, Thinking

John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.380

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It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

Wendell Phillips

Moving, Men, Ideas

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I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.

Damien Hirst

Sharks, Imagine, Enough

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If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.

Chanakya

Elephants, Lakes, Lust

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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows.

John Muir

Pain, Islands, Light

John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America

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Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

Theodore Roosevelt

Mean, Water, Bitter

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Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!

David Letterman

Valentine, Rose, Together

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My advice to you all out there is “READ LIQUID MILLIONAIRE NOW!

Greg Secker

Advice, Millionaire

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As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.

Bill Vaughan

Glasses, Lasts, Taste

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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

Alexander Pope

Rose, Amber, Opening

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1851). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.31

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