(18 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
“Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.”
William S. Gilbert
“The market tends to skim profits. Important people may be involved in the scandal and some skeletons may fall out of their closets, so before the dust settles the market should not rise much.”
Celso Cenise
“It's very small it's about the size of a hard match book box and you skim a credit card through it. It captures all the information.”
Jan Quintrall
“General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.”
William Bolitho
“In some instances, companies are still just skimming the cream off of the early adopters and migrating into the masses,”
Stephen Baker
“[Some comments called for the inclusion of an anti-skimming device that would block unauthorized connections with the readable chip to gain access to the data.] The doomsday scenario has been the ability for terrorist to drive by several cafés to find and target the most Americans in one place, ... I'm not sure how realistic that is, but when you work with these types of technologies you need to play out some of the possibilities to calm peoples' fears.”
Ray Everett-Church
“What I've started doing more and more is eat some cereal with skim milk before I go to the big event, and I try to cut back on the surf and turf.”
Anthony Williams
“In some instances, companies are still just skimming the cream off of the early adopters and migrating into the masses.”
“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