Molasses Quotes

#1. I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.

Mary Balogh

#2. We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

Orville Redenbacher

#3. I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses.

Craig Clevenger

#4. You can find the molasses flood on the Internet, it's there, I checked. Most of it is there, anyway, but that's not where I heard it." "Where, then?" She

Paul Tremblay

#5. Because the passage of time becomes molasses when dealing with the death of a loved one. A month. A year. Two years. All the same.

Anne Frasier

#6. Everything seemed slow, molasses slow, lovesick slow.

Alice Hoffman

#7. Ah, the molasses of emotion. How it sugars the most dangerous of decisions.

Daniel Kraus

#8. Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#9. Po Campo had given him a hailstone dipped in molasses and he sat licking it and feeling alternately happy and sad while the men got dressed and prepared to be cowboys again.

Larry McMurtry

#10. Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought. If ye touch at the islands, Mr. Flask, beware of fornication.

Herman Melville

#11. He kissed my palm, lingering his lips on my skin. Then he inhaled.
"Mmmm," he moaned. " Like gin to an alcoholic. Sweet as fresh molasses and deadly as snake venom.

Kellie Thacker

#12. John Adams, by then one of the country's founding fathers, wrote to a friend: I know not why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American independence. Many great events have proceeded from much smaller causes.

Tom Standage

#13. One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds

Herman Melville

#14. The rest of the day seemed to creep by as slow as a worm in molasses.

George R R Martin

#15. Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back ...
The only thing soft about Tan-Tan is she big molasses-brown eyes that could look on you, and your heart would beat time ...

Nalo Hopkinson

#16. Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#17. It was like climbing a mountain of waist-deep molasses while giving someone a fireman's carry, who, for good measure, was also trying to force a pair of frozen socks into your mouth. Nice.

Bear Grylls

#18. Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely made of all the sweet country things a man who hadn't eaten a good meal in a long time could imagine
molasses, sweet peas, sweet corn, freshly churned butter.

Linda Leigh Hargrove

#19. To obey my queen in all things." His voice was like his skin, dark. It made me think of molasses and other thick, sweet things. A voice so deep it could hit notes low enough to make my spine shiver.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#20. I was having one of my wading through molasses mornings where I could feel myself moving and thinking and doing, but it was all happening in slow motion.

Tess Oliver

#21. He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#22. The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.

Jack Kerouac

#23. James couldn't help it, he smiled. Charlotte was the strangest girl he'd spent time with lately, not because she was weird or even kinky, but because sweetness seemed to pour from her skin like molasses.

Eve Dangerfield

#24. I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

Christopher Columbus

#25. I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I have changed my mind on that subject. Now I think I would, if I were the Lord, because it purges out the meanness and corruption that stick around the saints, like flies around molasses.

John Taylor

#26. Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

Tracy Morgan

#27. They peered at him with their shining honey warm molasses-brown eyes. Their smiles, the white smiles pinned to their faces, were wide as all of summer.

Ray Bradbury

#28. Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet.

Robert Crais

#29. I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#30. It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.

Matt Chandler

#31. The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

Josh Radnor

#32. You're not a loser, Tweet. You're a coward, because you just threw away the chance to be with someone who wanted to spend the rest of his life loving you.

Alison G. Bailey

#33. We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

John Ruskin

#34. He is a man of great strength, determination, and resilience, and we truly hope that he will use those qualities to make a moral comeback as complete as the physical comeback he effected from the cancer that nearly killed him. Time will tell.

Reed Albergotti

#35. Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level ... A writer is someone who writes.

Pat Schneider

#36. This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

Jodi Picoult

#37. More people are watching your life and ... are gaining strength in their own lives and in their own challenges because of what you're going through. I promise you: your life matters, your life is significant, and things are happening that you don't even fully understand yourself.

Jeff Goins

#38. I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.

Arthur Fogel

#39. I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

Colin Trevorrow