Fixative Quotes

#1. Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns ...

Margaret Halsey

#2. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient
it's not useful
to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it. [p. 69]

Julian Barnes

#3. You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

David Hockney

#4. The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. Hoo! You're like a giant mood ring! I wonder if I can make different colors show up depending on where i touch you
- Nell Harris

Katie MacAlister

#6. I didn't want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.

Bear Grylls

#7. When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.

Andrew Lau

#8. It was just the same old familiar moon. The one and only satellite that has faithfully circled the earth, at the same speed, from before human memory.

Haruki Murakami

#9. (Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.) Today

Rainbow Rowell

#10. Bliss, wait one second."
I took my time packing up my stuff, waiting for everyone else to leave the computer lab.
When we were alone I asked, "What's up?"
He smiled, "Nothing."
Then he pressed me into the computer table behind me and kissed me.

Cora Carmack