(50 quotes found)
“Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.”
Dave Barry
“Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.”
Otto Weininger
“I'd like to see how high we get. Maybe we can't get to the summit without (oxygen). Then, we'll go down to the base camp and get oxygen. I'd rather make it with oxygen than not make it at all.”
Bill Yeo
“Cocaine narrows the blood vessels in the nose which means it cant get enough oxygen. Heavy cocaine use means the nasal cartilage melts away as it dies due to this lack of oxygen.”
Carol Cooper
“I recently read off a list of these new blood-oxygen expanders to a group of toxicologists, and none had heard of them. That's how fast things are moving.”
Charles Yesalis
“A fire needs three things to survive: fuel (like weeds or dry grass), oxygen and a heat source. A lot of grass fires are preventable.”
Chief Gary Ogden
“And that's when it started to hit me that 30 minutes without a pulse, no oxygen, I am probably going to lose my wife.”
Chris Higgins
“He apparently was overcome by the variety of toxic gases and the oxygen deprivation that likely occurred.”
Rusty Gregory
“I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.”
Clint Eastwood
“The fungus is knocking out species...It impedes the ability of their skin to absorb oxygen and just suffocates them. It's the equivalent of us ingesting a fungus that takes over our lungs,”
Claude Gascon