(37 quotes found)
“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
“Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.”
William Osler
“With soap, baptism is a good thing”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“What is elegance? Soap and water!”
Cecil Beaton
“The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.”
Stefan Kanfer
“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
“And a nice little boy had a nice cake of soap, / Worthy of washing the hands of the Pope.”
Rev. R. H. Barham
“You gotta be careful with your body. Your body is like a bar of soap. The more you use it, the more it wears down.”
Richie Allen
“But I never aspired to be a soap opera star. I always wanted to do good dramatic roles on TV and in the movies.”
Cari Shayne
