Quotes About Phosphorus

#1. In Victorian London they used to burn phosphorus at seances in an attempt to see ghosts, and I suspect that the pop-music equivalent is our obsession with B-sides and alternate versions and unreleased material.

Nick Hornby

#2. white phosphorus flowers, burning without oxygen,

Charles A. McDonald

#3. The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies.

Otto Ohlendorf

#4. In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.

Stephane Mallarme

#5. This is what I am talking about: the bewitching power of moonlight. Moonlight incites dark passions like a cold flame, making hearts burning with the intensity of phosphorus.

Rampo Edogawa

#6. Night crawled across the desert sky like a black cat with phosphorus dandruff.

Christopher Moore

#7. MOSFETs can be constructed as either NMOS or PMOS types, based on the arrangement of doped silicon used. Silicon doped with boron is called P-type (positive) because it lacks electrons, whereas silicon doped with phosphorus is called N-type (negative) because it has an excess of free electrons.

Scott Mueller

#8. We walk on air, Watson.
There is only the moon, embalmed in phosphorus.
There is only a crow in a tree. Make notes.

Sylvia Plath

#9. Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

Roland Barthes

#10. Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

Mark Twain

#11. The cinema implies a total inversion of values, a complete upheaval of optics, of perspective and logic. It is more exciting than phosphorus, more captivating than love.

Antonin Artaud

#12. So while Pauling struggled with his model, Watson and Crick turned theirs inside out, so the negative phosphorus ions wouldn't touch. This gave them a sort of twisted ladder - the famed double helix.

Sam Kean

#13. Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

Stendhal

#14. Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.

Ludwig Buchner

#15. And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind

H. P. Blavatsky

#16. Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

Andre Gide

#17. The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark.

Isaiah Crowell

#18. I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

George H. W. Bush

#19. It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#20. There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

Joaquin Phoenix

#21. I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.

Sarah Gadon

#22. The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anais Nin

#23. When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from all misunderstandings.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Real is the new beautiful

Renae A. Sauter