“What is elegance? Soap and water!”
Cecil Beaton
“Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.”
William Osler
“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul”
Yiddish Proverb
“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
“With soap, baptism is a good thing”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
C. Wright Mills
“The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.”
Stefan Kanfer
