Niter Quotes

#1. I had concocted the gunpowder myself from niter, sulfur, charcoal, and a happy heart. When working with explosives, I've found that attitude is everything.

Alan Bradley

#2. Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

Confucius

#3. He wasn't a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made.

Diana Gabaldon

#4. Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

Chelsea Clinton

#5. I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

Annie Leibovitz

#6. People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.

David Attenborough

#7. I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

Richard Dawkins

#8. That we have ignored the lessons of modern war poetry speaks volumes to the lack of concern for that which we do not endure.

David McDonald

#9. One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.

Luise Rainer

#10. The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. I'm lucky to be alive.

George Michael

#12. Tony Scott was one of the best directors I've ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and people's lives are sometimes difficult.

Christian Slater

#13. I suppose I do have a suitor, but I'm not really used to him yet. He's terribly charming and he plies me with delicious meals, but I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me.

Mary Ann Shaffer