Quicklime Quotes

#1. Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.

Elizabeth Smart

#2. Note to clients, quicklime is a preservative, not a corrosive.

Kelley Armstrong

#3. No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

Rachel Field

#4. To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

Saadi

#5. What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#6. In the cell was a rack, a winch, a furnace, a set of branding irons, a pot for melting wax, nails of different lengths. A thumbscrew, a pair of flesh-tongs, heavy tweezers, a set of surgical instruments, a series of small metal trays, ropes, wire, preparations of quicklime, a hood and a blindfold.

Jeanette Winterson

#7. On 'Whose Line,' we had six, seven, eight scenes per show, so everything was pretty quick. And there's a lot of games that we just got tired of, like 'Hats' and 'World's Worst' and 'Hoedown' and stuff.

Ryan Stiles

#8. I can generate attention quickly.

Scott Ritter

#9. Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

Mignon McLaughlin

#10. Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.

Toks Olagundoye

#11. Life shouldn't be about good-byes, but I felt like mine was. I was a revolving door. There was no way to enter my existence without exiting. In and out. Like breathing. Only it was the kind of breathing that hurt. ~Hawthorne

R.K. Ryals

#12. Here's Fernando, Sarah said in a tone suggesting that deliverance had come at last.

Deborah Harkness

#13. Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

John Milton