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179 Powder quotes by 151 unique authors

The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When… — Carla Hall
To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder. — David Ben-Gurion
The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves,… — Hal Porter
If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful. — Sophia Loren
[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one part of air… — Vannoccio Biringuccio
A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder,… — Groucho Marx
PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is… — Ambrose Bierce
If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey,… — Nicholas Culpeper
I live in Selfridges because it has everything under one roof. Liberty's is great for the same reason - I'm so lazy, I hate walking… — Sheridan Smith
One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up. — James A. Baldwin
I absolutely love my daily driver Ford Raptor, especially since I live out here in the mountains of Park City, so to build out this… — Ken Block
The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within… — Henry David Thoreau
Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of… — Jean Baudrillard
Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print. — Hod Lipson
Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs… — Karl Liebknecht
Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then… — Pierre Bayle
No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives.… — Margaret Cho
As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs… — Danielle Trussoni
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in,… — Honore de Balzac
Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits… — Ricky Jay
Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain,… — Elton John
Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further. — George MacDonald
Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life… — Brian Tracy
And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle. — Richard Diebenkorn
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally… — William Osler

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