Top 35 Quotes About Cyanide
#1. Young shoots contain enough cyanide to kill a horse. Death is mercifully swift, usually caused by cardiac arrest or respiratory failure and preceded by only a few hours of anxiety, convulsions, and staggering about.
Amy Stewart
#2. Too many of us treat guns with genial familiarity. Guns should give us the heebie-jeebies. They are killing machines. That is all they are. We should dread them the way we dread cancer and cyanide and electric chairs.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#3. Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. Their mission achieved, Princip and Cabrinovic both tried to commit suicide, but the cyanide in the capsules they carried had oxidized and failed to kill them.
Niall Ferguson
#5. Hungarian Language - savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura ... words of nectar and cyanide.
Emile M. Cioran
#7. But Sales + Customers = Nothing Broken is a formula for corporate cyanide.
Kevin Ashton
#8. There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#9. A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
Karl Kraus
#11. When I see an actress or actor drag deeply in a movie, I imagine the pyrenes and phenols ravaging the tender epithelial cells and hardworking cilia of their bronchi, the monoxide and cyanide binding to their hemoglobin, the heaving and straining of their chemically panicked hearts.
Jonathan Franzen
#12. Escape was out of the question. The atmosphere outside the dome was cyanide, and Earth was 446,120,000,000,000,000 miles away.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Tom Robbins
#14. Religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.
Tom Robbins
#15. Doctor, what could you prescribe for Charlemund?"
The doctor looked down his nose at the unconscious form of the arch-diocel.
"Arsenic?"
"Now, really. Something to give him a quality headache and a great deal of memory loss."
"Cyanide.
Brian McClellan
#16. Sanctified cyanide
Super-quick arsenic
Higgledy-piggledy
Into the Soup.
Put out the mourning lamps
Call for coffin clamps
Teach them to trifle with
Flavia de Luce!
Alan Bradley
#17. If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.
Alan Bradley
#18. Some men call her cyanide
For she'll cause and take your pain.
To others she's the devil
Or the quest for true love's bane,
And, to those less lucky,
She's called their ball and chain.
Phar West Nagle
#19. This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup
Frank Ocean
#20. I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.
Elaine Stritch
#21. If the young man ate candy, the wrangler says, that's probably what's kept him alive so long. Glucose is a natural antidote to cyanide poisoning. Based on anecdotal evidence, glucose binds with
the cyanide to produce less toxic compounds.
Chuck Palahniuk
#22. You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.
David Nicholls
#23. Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die.
Frank Zappa
#24. Yeah, I do. Matthias is right. Wow. That tasted like battery acid, mixed with jalapeno cyanide and shoved down my throat with a spiked spoon.
A&E Kirk
#25. And the Chamber of Commerce was handing out cyanide capsules.
Carl Hiaasen
#26. There would be no dressing up as a maid. No cyanide slipped into his crystal glass of mineral water. The Fuhrer's death was to be a loud, screaming thing. A broadcast of blood over the Reichssender.
Ryan Graudin
#27. Leaders at the top of al Qaeda's hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins - botulinum and salmonella - and the chemical poison cyanide.
Barton Gellman
#29. I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide ...
Emil Cioran
#30. Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.
Chuck Palahniuk
#31. If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie." When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All Poison, and come to "Cyanide," I am going to put under "Uses" the phrase "Particularly efficacious in the cure of those who call one 'Dearie.
Alan Bradley
#32. She couldn't send Billy out for ice cream or strawberries, since the atmosphere outside the dome was cyanide, and the nearest strawberries and ice cream were millions of light years away.
Kurt Vonnegut
#33. Do you like mysteries?" I nodded. I think if she'd asked me whether I liked arsenic or cyanide on toast I would have given her the same answer. "Are
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#34. Cyanide. On ice with a twist of lime. Or water. But I'm not budging on the lime."
Lyon, Jennifer (2013-02-22). The Proposition (The Plus One Chronicles) (Kindle Location 1365). Jennifer Lyon Books. Kindle Edition.
Jennifer Lyon
#35. As the concert goers left the hall, the music of the end of the world still ringing in their ears, they filed out past children dressed in their Hitler Youth uniforms who had been assigned to helpfully hold out baskets filled with cyanide capsules for the crowd.
Andrei Cherny
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