Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine Lavoisier

It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.

Antoine Lavoisier

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

Antoine Lavoisier

Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed.

Bill Hicks

It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me...oxygen tent, iron lung.

Ben Goldacre

As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.

Edward Abbey

The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

David Gilmour

She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her.

Jim Calhoun

Points for him are like oxygen for the rest of us.

Annie Dillard

All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll itself, what you get is one hundred thirty-six atoms of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen arranged in an exact and complex relationship around a central ring. At the ring's center is a single atom of magnesium. Now: If you remove the atom of magnesium and in its exact place put an atom of iron, you get a molecule of hemoglobin. The iron atom combines with all the other atoms to make red blood, the streaming red dots in the goldfish's tail.

Kelly Stinnett

I was always scared by not having a mask on. I feel more comfortable that way.

Benjamin Franklin

Men take more pains to mask than to mend.

Dennis Potter

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

Dr. Prettyman

Where else can you get a steel sword, put on a mask and then try and kill somebody. And it's all perfectly sanctioned.

Alexander Herzen

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

Kelly Ioane

We have a lot of people sick right now and others getting sick. Keri is playing with a mask and getting sick on top of that.

Mark Dixon

We don't have a pile of masks sitting off to one side in anticipation of a pandemic.

Joanna Scott

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

Satinath Sarangi

They tried to do it cheaply, without masks and gloves. It was a mess. That's why we want assurances that the work will be done properly.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I lose you, I lose everything

Becca Fitzpatrick

I'm yours, if you'll have me.

C. S. Lewis

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

Carl Sagan

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Paul Rodio

There are so many ifs with this group.

Carl Jung

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

Anton LaVey

What good are friends if they cant do you any good?

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.

Ayn Rand

The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.