Nitric Acid Quotes

#1. Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded.

Ilona Andrews

#2. The [Victory Gin] was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club. The next moment, however, the burning in his belly died down and the world began to look more cheerful.

George Orwell

#3. You take a 98-percent concentration of fuming nitric acid and add the acid to three times that amount of sulfuric acid. Do this in an ice bath. Then add glycerin drop-by-drop with an eye dropper. You have nitroglycerin.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Nitric acid. Lampblack. Furniture, like all living things, acquired marks and scars over the course of time. The effects of time, visible and invisible.

Donna Tartt

#5. Sometimes it takes another person to see us for who we really are.

Priscilla West

#6. The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

Tom DeLonge

#8. You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

Booker T. Washington

#9. As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.

David Morrell

#10. I start every morning with a Rosicrucian ritual, meditation and exercise. I can't separate myself from this habit of connecting myself to the other realm every day, not anymore, because I'm actually more there than here. I always was, but now I know how to maintain this balance, even in solitude.

Robin Sacredfire

#11. Yet intact Ahab, back from his first voyage, once said of just such a changeable breeze, This contrast is the way of life itself. All playfully, he added, But were I God, then would every day be invariantly good. Then he asked me if he might be the god of my world.

Sena Jeter Naslund

#12. Words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

Frederick Buechner

#13. You tell me why's a man's blood is any better or any more precious than a dog's blood? It sure ain't to the dog.

Jack Ketchum

#14. That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Francis Bacon

#15. I swear, the bigger the bully, the smaller the dick.

Clive Barker

#16. Better to stand still than travel in a hurry.

Marty Rubin

#17. Six feet directly beneath his seat is a suitcase in the baggage hold containing enough C-4 to turn an airplane into a meteor.

David Mitchell