Aqueous Quotes

#1. A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

John Zachary Young

#2. It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.

Avicenna

#3. Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

Ezra Pound

#4. Shortly after, the aqueous symphony of dawn began. The last day of the Walk came up wet and overcast. The wind howled down the almost-empty alley of the road like a lost dog being whipped through a strange and terrible place.

Stephen King

#5. We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

#6. It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.

Antoine Lavoisier

#7. Non-aqueous solutions don't conduct.

Wolfgang Ostwald

#8. I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

Craig Venter

#9. When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?

Ellen Hopkins

#10. There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces.

Rin Chupeco

#11. The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

Marcus Buckingham

#12. I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

Howard Hodgkin

#13. Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white women, and black men. And they have had to understand themselves. When black women win victories, it is a boost for virtually every segment of society.

Angela Davis

#14. Drag your thoughts away
from your troubles ...
by the ears, by the heels,
or any other way you can manage it.

Mark Twain

#15. What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

Irving Thalberg

#16. The night she'd been captured, she'd also snapped, and come SO CLOSE to killing the person she most wanted to destroy before someone knocked her out and she awoke in a rotting dungeon. She smiled bitterly as she opened her eyes. It was always the same story, the same loss.

Sarah J. Maas

#17. I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

Sylvia Plath

#18. Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers.

Tim Holden

#19. Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.

David B. Haight

#20. I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.

James Stephens

#21. Coach Smith poked his head into the dugout. If you ladies are done with the warm and fuzzies, I'd like you to get your asses on the field with your team.

J. Sterling

#22. In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.

Ann Turner