“The clear layer is glycerin. You can mix glycerin back in when you make soap. Or You can skim the glycerin off. You can mix the glycerin with nitric acid to make nitroglycerin. You can mix nitroglycerin with sodium nitrate and sawdust to make dynamite. You can blow up bridges. You can mix nitroglycerin with more nitric acid and parafin and make gelatin explosives. You can blow up a building, easy. With enough soap, you can blow up the whole world.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“You almost need to take a nitro-glycerin tablet just to read these numbers,”
Tom Daschle
“When you continuously skim the cream, that's what's going to happen,”
Bill Miller
“Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.”
William S. Gilbert
“It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.”
Mary Ritter Beard
“I couldn't believe it. I went to try to block the ball and it just skimmed off my head. It's one of these things that can happen but I will come back stronger,”
Jonathan Woodgate
“I couldn't believe it. I went to try to block the ball and it just skimmed off my head. It's one of these things that can happen but I will come back stronger, ... Obviously I didn't want to score an own goal so it was not the best start in the world.”
