Soot Quotes
31 quotes by 27 authors
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of…
— Alton Brown
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Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame…
— Lewis Mumford
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Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The…
— Carl Sagan
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The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame,…
— Johann Joachim Becher
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the…
— Jonathan Swift
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A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and…
— Beverley Nichols
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Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the…
— Ernst Zundel
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The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps…
— Frederick Lenz
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I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I…
— John Banville
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When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light…
— John Constable
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Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with…
— William Osler
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Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that…
— Che Guevara
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I'll be getting you for this,' Halt had told him as he dabbed the diguisting mixture on the worst of the cuts. 'That soot is…
— John Flanagan
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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Her hair is smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arms, her dress was torn, and she was missing…
— Rick Riordan
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Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit…
— Connie Willis
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I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it…
— Garth Nix
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Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me." "Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, but she was about the most beautiful thing…
— Rick Riordan
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If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
— R. Scott Bakker
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The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on…
— Franz Kafka
Who Wrote These Soot Quotes
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