Chemicals Quotes

• The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Sentences
  • Narrative
  • Compelling

• We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Accepting
  • Clear
  • Months

• At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Found
  • Iraq
  • Location

• When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Trying
  • Analysis
  • Composition

• I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Like
  • Skin
  • Chemicals

• The overall trend is downward. There are fewer toxic chemicals going into the environment, but we want to see that amount go down even more.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Environment
  • Enviroment
  • Trend

• I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods.

  

  Carol Channing
  • Food
  • Organic
  • Allergic

• The Toxics Release Inventory has been extremely successful in raising public awareness about chemical hazards in communities from coast to coast. Public disclosure has proven to be a strong incentive for polluters to reduce their use of toxic chemicals.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Strong
  • Communities
  • Hazards

• I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the freakin' frogs gay!

  

  Alex Jones
  • Water
  • Chemicals
  • Frog

• As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Decision
  • Brain
  • Body

• Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.

  

  Michael Palmer
  • Changed
  • Plastic
  • Profitable

• So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Important
  • Nature
  • Food

• I can only speak from my own experience, and I would say that the depression I experienced feels like a chemical change. When it came over me, when it comes over me, it feels like it's coming over me like a flu.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Feels
  • Speak
  • Flu

• I think that we are chemicals. I think the dark is light. And I know each and every wrong you right. You say that this could kill you, your words cut like a knife. And we are the beautiful mistake that I can’t find.

  

  Alesso
  • Words
  • Mistake
  • Chemicals

• Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.

  

  Eliot Coleman
  • Food
  • Mountain
  • Approach

• We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Weapons
  • Expected
  • Chemicals

• Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Boy
  • Silent
  • Average

• I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Stories
  • Actors
  • Improvisation

• You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer. 'So,' I said. 'Tell me' 'It's an animal attraction,' he said simply. 'Totally chemical.' 'Hmm,' I said. 'You could be right.' 'It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me.' 'No?' 'Nope.' His hands were in my hair now, and I was leaning in, not able to totally make out his face, but his voice was clear, close to my ear. 'Just that you do.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Animal
  • Able
  • Arms

• Not all G8 members take the view that chemical weapons were in fact used by the Syrian Army. Some actually agree with us that there is no proof.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Army
  • Facts
  • Members

• With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.

  

  Al Meyerhoff
  • Questions
  • Shoot
  • Chemicals

• No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen.

  

  John Dalton
  • Existence
  • Creation
  • Destruction

• No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

  

  August Sander
  • Earth
  • Language
  • Path

• The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Food
  • Knows
  • Effects

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