Quotes About Casing

#1. The unfortunate 8075 hadn't survived his assault, splintering apart, fragments of its casing skittering across the bench. The battery within had split along its plane, revealing something as out-of-place as a missile in a bathtub.

A. Ashley Straker

#2. Most chartreuse recipes call for one bird, a fat one, like a pigeon or a partridge, secreted inside the casing, a vegetable mold, which is then turned out onto a plate.

Bill Buford

#3. I was deeply depressed. I felt my brain slipping out of its casing and down my neck, like an egg sliding on a frying pan. So

Jonathan Ames

#4. And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

Jennifer Egan

#5. [M]y Coke hit the floor with a metallic clink, so much like the sound of a bullet casing being dropped.

Mira Grant

#6. Since my earliest years I felt nothing but shame for the useless casing of flesh I inhabit.

Stephen Fry

#7. The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

Marshall McLuhan

#8. No, what's a man like down there?"
"Oh." Sidheag wrinkled her nose. "Unimpressive. They have - "she gestured towards her own nether regions with one hand - "a sort of dangly sausage - lacks tailoring."
"Really?"
"Yes, like it wasn't fitted into its casing properly. And hairy.

Gail Carriger

#9. He could fit what he knew about women in a bullet casing and still have room for the gunpowder.

Karen Witemeyer

#10. [on the atomic bomb] It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#11. I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#12. We ought to step out of our old, hard casing. We think that we are one kind of people, when in fact we are always creating ourselves. We are not fixed. We are constantly becoming, constantly coming into being.

Ben Okri

#13. With the front casing removed, he fired up the boiler and showed him the colour of the gas flame. 'It should normally burn blue, but due to corrosion, the flame is blue to orange, which is a tell-tale sign of leaking carbon monoxide.

B.P. Smythe

#14. The customer deserves to receive exactly what we have promised to produce - a clean room, a hot cup of coffee, a nonporous casing, a trip to the moon on goassamer wings.

Phil Crosby

#15. I am a very even-keeled guy.

Richard Mourdock

#16. I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#17. We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern between external stimuli and stimuli from the imagination. It reacts equally viscerally to events from the imagination as it does to real events.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#18. We don't see the world in the same manner

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#19. The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

David Talbot

#20. I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.

Chris Isaak