Liquid quotes

Liquid

65 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

"I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses."

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Marcel Proust Novelist
Liquid

"No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me."

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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist
Liquid

"Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Liquid

"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."

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
Liquid

"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."

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Alton Brown Chef, Television Personality
Liquid

"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."

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