Powder Quotes

• When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

  Julia Child

  Real, Cake, Eggs

  Interview with Polly Frost, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2009.

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• One can never be bored by powder skiing because it is a special gift of the relationship between earth and sky. It only comes in sufficient amounts in particular places, at certain times on this earth; it lasts only a limited amount of time before sun and wind changes it. People devote their whole lives to it for the pleasure of being so purely played by gravity and snow.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Wind, Sky, People

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

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• There is nothing in the world like going out onto an untouched, open, virgin mountain slope drenched under a thick blanket of new powder snow. It gives a supreme feeling of freedom, mobility. A great sense of flying, moving anywhere in a great white paradise.

  Hans Gmoser

  Moving, White, Snow

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• Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Faith, Evil, Dry

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• I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

  Isak Dinesen

  Girl, Knowing, Order

  "Seven Gothic Tales (The Old Chevalier)". Book by Isak Dinesen, April 1934.

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• There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Tired, Mean, Gun

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• I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

  Barney Ross

  Gun, Thinking, Bags

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• When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.

  Catherine Bell

  Fitness, Healthy, Vitamins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Baby, Hockey

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• Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mistake, Government, Effort

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.109, Verso

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• Here in the deep powder snow you don't hear yourself ski. You don't hear your long turns or your short turns. You just float. The faster you go, the better. The less you struggle, the better. You move through the deep light snow, through the deep snow with some crust on it, through the deep snow with some wind in it.

  Jacques Labrie

  Struggle, Moving, Light

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• A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder, an evil-smelling lip rouge, a peculiar-smelling hair ointment and a half-dozen varieties of body oils, and then have the effrontery to complain of the aroma of a fine dollar cigar.

  Groucho Marx

  Women, Hair, Oil

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• Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Sports, Fun, Reality

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• Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Technology, Humanity

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• What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

  Art Blakey

  Grind

  KABC-TV Interview, 1983.

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• I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery

  Henry Bessemer

  White, Enough, Made

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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• Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Military, Evil, Kegs

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• Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

  George Axelrod

  Girl, Giving, Gentleman

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• It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Hands, Anxiety, Littles

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• The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

  Henry James

  Art, Congratulations, Literature

  Henry James (1996). “Complete Stories, 1892-1898”, p.496, Library of America

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• The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.

  Tim Cahill

  Running, Snow, Sensual

  Tim Cahill (1989). “A Wolverine is Eating My Leg”, Vintage

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• All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Fashion, Purple, White

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• Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

  Louis L'Amour

  Dry, Have Faith, Faith In God

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• I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.

  David Spade

  Fighting, Guy, West Coast

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Gun, Civilization, Religion

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "The State of German Literature" (1838)

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