Copper Quotes
84 quotes by 73 authors
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it quite hot, in a small…
— Edward Lear
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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But…
— Mark Twain
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Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two…
— Louis Pasteur
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I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves,…
— Alys Fowler
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An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
— Herman Melville
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Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it…
— Paul Romer
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Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help…
— Murray Rothbard
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Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and redeem it for a dollar…
— Harold Wallace Rosenthal
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Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very…
— Will Eisner
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Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight,…
— Toni Morrison
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It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No.
— Douglas Brinkley
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The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip;…
— Joseph Conrad
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The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any…
— Paul Davies
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Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted…
— Billy Graham
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You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in…
— Tasha Tudor
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Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine,…
— Rumi
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Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions when he had…
— Terry Pratchett
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