Soot Quotes

31 Soot quotes by 27 unique authors

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
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
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
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,… — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance. — R. Scott Bakker
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
I don't know if I'd want to be comforted, if I'm being honest. If I'm being forced to eat soot, I want to know that… — Maggie Stiefvater
His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all in black, silhouetted… — Cinda Williams Chima
Thank you,” he was whispering, “thank you, thank you.…” And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away… — Alexandra Bracken
Quietly Sophronia added, "And the soot on my dress, sir?" "I didn't see anything." Professor Braithwope smiled down at her, showing a small hint of… — Gail Carriger
For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse,… — Janine Benyus

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