Formaldehyde Quotes

#1. Fears that formaldehyde from vaccines may cause cancer are similar to fears of mercury and aluminum, in that they coalesce around miniscule amounts of the substance in question, amounts considerably smaller than amounts from other common sources of exposure to the same substance.

Eula Biss

#2. I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

Damien Hirst

#3. pickled in formaldehyde and painted like a whore, / Shrimp-pink incorruptible, not lost or gone before.

Caitlin Doughty

#4. The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.

Richard Kadrey

#5. If I could bottle kindness, I wonder if formaldehyde would preserve it.

Amanda Mosher

#6. Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.

Paul Kalanithi

#7. In recent years, a green burial movement has protested formaldehyde, which oxidizes to formic acid, the toxic in fire ants and bee stingers, as yet one more poison to leach into water tables: careless people, polluting even from the tomb.

Alan Weisman

#8. Laboratory scientists use formaldehyde as a disinfectant or preservative. They don't fucking drink it.

Rory Freedman

#9. That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved

Robin Williams

#10. New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. Fill your office with plants and flowers. Spider plants and plants with hairy leaves absorb air pollutants (such as formaldehyde), produce oxygen, and add color to ease you eyes. Chrysanthemums, azaleas, and Gerbera daisies are similarly helpful.

Lewis Harrison

#12. Where ever there's guilt there's violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood.

Glen Duncan

#13. Brains. Hearts. Lungs. Eyes. All pickled in some kind of home-brewed formaldehyde,

Ransom Riggs

#14. I know what a human brain preserved in formaldehyde looks like," I said, "We've got to get out of here. Go to the party, act as though nothing's happened. He can't suspect that we know."

"How can I act like papa doesn't have a brain in a hatbox?

Megan Shepherd

#15. My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#16. In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it's architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?

Tom Ford

#17. I Preserve the nonviable embryo in formaldehyde for future study. Lord Maccon has been drinking my samples. When confronted, he admitted to be enjoying both the refreshing beverage and the 'crunchy pickled snack' as well. I was not pleased (Professor Lyall to Madame Lefoux)

Gail Carriger

#18. You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.

Lennart Nilsson

#19. I don't want to go to the government," the Schwa says.
"Yeah," I said. "They'd dissect him and put him in a formaldehyde fish tank in Area 51."
Howie shook his head. "Area 51 is for aliens," he says. "They'd probably put him in Area 52.

Neal Shusterman

#20. But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of formaldehyde may be as potent as the whiff of incense in stimulating a naturally idolatrous understanding.

Robertson Davies

#21. Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. The latter part of bull markets are typically led by stocks that are seen then as high quality, but the ones that do best are the ones that weren't seen as such high quality before.

Kenneth Fisher

#23. Apropos this election season, America is the home of:

"Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; and cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers.

Charles Dickens

#24. When I am at rodeo I find it difficult not to root for the animals.

Demetri Martin

#25. I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking for any new friends. I got my friends.

Eric Dickerson

#26. In flawed families, a scion appears who dedicates himself to the truth and who ruins himself in its pursuit.

Emil Cioran

#27. Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the correct one, that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all artists are fair game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips.

Walter J. Phillips

#28. How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

Cornelia Funke

#29. If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

Douglas Adams

#30. Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

Savielly Tartakower

#31. At dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door ...

John Geddes

#32. Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones.

M. Jones

#33. Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.

Harbhajan Singh

#34. Only those who fail to recognize that inner strength will say, "I lost", and be sad.

Paulo Coelho

#35. I know karate, and like two other Japanese words - T-SHIRT

Darynda Jones