(106 quotes found)
“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
“The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.”
Antoine Lavoisier
“Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
Carl Sandberg
“My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!”
Emily Carr
“My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face”
William Shakespeare
“Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.”
William Rathje
“TSA has established a strong, layered system of security in the air cargo arena and recognizes the need to do more,”
Yolanda Clark
“Grooves get cut into the ice so it has to be flooded each week. You put it on in layers so it freezes up by the following week. Surprisingly, with the weather we have been having, our track is in really good shape right now.”
Bob Demesy
“As a national park, we are responsible for all of the layers of history. It's only taken us 58 years. I think it's about time.”
Charles Fenwick
