Kilogram Quotes

#1. Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.

Dave Barry

#2. Liquid oxygen is one of the cheapest manufactured substances on Earth. In large quantities, it costs pennies per kilogram - cheaper than milk or beer.

Henry Spencer

#3. Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal.

William Crookes

#4. Every kilogram of beef requires 100,000 liters of water to produce. By comparison, a kilogram of wheat requires just 900 liters, and a kilogram of potatoes just 500 liters.

T. Colin Campbell

#5. It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows?

Craig Venter

#6. A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.

John Robert Colombo

#7. None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes.

Anthony Doerr

#8. Oh, the English! They are always thinking of tea. They carry it by the kilogram, and they are so clumsy that they always pack it at the top.

E. M. Forster

#9. Be like children , Not childish BUT childlike.

Michael Jackson

#10. Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!

Thomas A. Edison

#11. New life insists. It does not debate. It simply appears, trembling and hungry, and will not be denied.

Thomas French

#12. As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#13. Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

Emily Haines

#14. In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.

Simon Blackburn

#15. A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#16. The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

Thelonious Monk

#17. Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don't look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. I

Ursula K. Le Guin

#18. I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.

David Bailey