(57 quotes found)
“Men are nicotine-soaked, beer-besmirched, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devils.”
Carry Nation
“TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The first load, 50 pieces were soaking wet, ... We unframed everything, got them stable, lying flat to aerate and dry, and documented each piece with photography. We were able to save a good percentage.”
Heather Becker
“We're so soaked in weddings and we have been for decades.”
Mark Lewis
“[Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated him. Joe had the heart of a lion but verbally he was out of his depth when Ali got going. One time, as fight day approached, Ali spotted Frazier on a hotel balcony, grabbed a security guard's gun and fired some rounds at him. Everybody knew it wasn't live ammo but it still startled the hell out of Joe.] Go back in your hole, Gorilla, ... You gonna scare the people! Come out again and I'm gonna kill ya before time!”
Muhammad Ali
“You've got 150 years of fear and violence and pain soaked into those walls, but the overall mood there is one of despair.”
Wentworth Miller
“There's 150 years of fear, violence and pain soaked into those walls, ... The overall mood there is one of despair, and filming there gives the show grit and authenticity.”
“Once you have saturated the country and soaked up enormous quantities of market share, it gets hard to grow in this country faster than the economy and general spending grow.”
Charles Fishman
“I don't know what to think yet. We still haven't let it soak in.”
Charlie Fehrenbach
“If you've worn cotton socks and they get soaking wet, they bunch and you get blisters and you think that is the way it is...it doesn't have to be that way.”
Bob Kennedy
