Emollient Quotes

#1. There are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.

Marjorie Hillis

#2. There are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free! ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#3. It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Robert Hughes

#4. within the institution, breaking out into new worlds, leaving behind the shrine which had become a place of worldly power and resistance to his purposes.

N. T. Wright

#5. No matter what, make an effort to react positively to each event.

Steven Redhead

#6. (which did not exist before the creation of the income tax in 1913)

Thomas Piketty

#7. Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

Brian K. Vaughan

#8. There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country knows it.

Vendela Vida

#9. I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

Isabel Allende

#10. Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.

Roland De Vaux

#11. Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

Derek Luke

#12. You want the truth? I liked it. It's good for the ego for a man to have a woman cry over him.

Nora Roberts

#13. He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides

Judy Grahn

#14. Silence hovers in the yards, leaving no pages with writing on them, that thing we'll later call the work.

Roberto Bolano