#geth

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#burned #cause #charcoal #distill #face

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#ever #get #get together #good #good night

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#been #celebrate #century #community #east

I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.' ↗

— Ryan Hurst

#american culture #car #concept #culture #distinctively

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it. ↗

— John Huston

#coming #controlling #day #die #directing

We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice. ↗

— Bill Irwin

#before #constantly #doing #every #lines

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#dialogue #echo #exist #films #i

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#because #disadvantage #electoral #everyone #freezes

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#i write #like #lost #lullaby #make

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#hang #like #long #made #shirts