Top 23 Adhesive Quotes

#1. If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syringe and a bottle labelled cocaine, but for God's sake leave that violin alone.

Agatha Christie

#2. The Cat Dancer is a 30-inch piece of wire with some little cardboard cylinders on the end. My cats go crazy for it. I stuck it on the wall with the adhesive mount, but I ended up taking it off so I could hold it and play directly with my cats.

Mark Frauenfelder

#3. Say a piece of pottery is broken, and it's fixed, and they use gold in the adhesive and in the sealant. It becomes more precious than it was before it was broken in the first place.

Rose McIver

#4. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER:

I am too childish-foolish for this world.

William Shakespeare

#6. It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.

Hope Mirrlees

#7. Her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin.

Marcel Proust

#8. Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.

Amy Sedaris

#9. Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination

William Bridges

#10. Class is a stronger social adhesive than nationality.

Elly Griffiths

#11. Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Carter Burwell

#12. Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.

Conrad Brooks

#13. Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. Time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.

Deborah Eisenberg

#15. Poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

May Sarton

#16. Fear is the most powerful adhesive we have. Fear unites, because if two people are afraid, then even as the authentic ties that may have once bound them disappear, the fear ties are as sticky as a spider's web.

Ramani Durvasula

#17. He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

Plato

#18. How does a sesame seed stick to a bun? That's magical. There must be some sesame seed glue out there. Either that or they're adhesive on one side. Peel off the backing, place it on the bun.

Mitch Hedberg

#19. Cultivate your sense of humour. On life's journey from nappy rash to denture adhesive, humour is a great pain reliever.

James Simpson

#20. Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#21. There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

Isaac Asimov

#22. My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.

David Rakoff

#23. But I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Randall Munroe

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