Quotes About Evaporation

#1. The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.

Simon Armitage

#2. Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.

Edward Abbey

#3. The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.

Andrei Codrescu

#4. Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

Samuel Johnson

#5. These motions were such as to satisfy me, after frequently repeated observation, that they arose neither from currents in the fluid, nor from its gradual evaporation, but belonged to the particle itself.
[Summary of Brownian motion.]

Robert Brown

#6. Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation.

James Lind

#7. In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

Sophie Swetchine

#8. Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

Gene Wilder

#9. The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation. First the capital evaporates, and then the company goes into liquidation. These are very unnatural physics ...

Joseph Conrad

#10. There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.

Peter Garrett

#11. There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset.

George Foreman

#12. Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.

Anthony Kiedis

#13. When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.

Boyd Holbrook

#14. Sofi could see the lights in the distance, like the stars hanging above and the planet perched in the sky. Waiting breathless by the moon for them to visit in their rocket ship.

Mary Weber

#15. She's one of the few women I've met who can sit in silence.

E.L. James

#16. The more honest you are, the more quieted you are within.

John De Ruiter

#17. The worst lies are almost always silence - or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.

Jim Butcher

#18. Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.

Haruki Murakami

#19. That was the thing mauma and I loved, our time with the quilts.

Sue Monk Kidd

#20. Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

Christopher Hitchens

#21. I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

Fab Five Freddy

#22. The notion that the lobby at Langley is choked with the corpses of former agents gunned down by their own colleagues at the behest of genocidal directors on the top floor is amusing but wholly unreal.

Frederick Forsyth

#23. I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.

James McGreevey

#24. Her name was a joke, she said, like Karen Cutter's family nick-naming her Cookie, or poor Marie Antoinette Jones, whose parents had liked the sound of the name but who were a tad weak in French history.

Miriam N. Kotzin

#25. But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.

Mary Balogh

#26. What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

Arnold Palmer

#27. I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there.

Helen McCrory

#28. Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

Goran Ivanisevic