#powder

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds. ↗

— Elspeth Huxley

#country #cruel #grinds #heart #into

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#animal #glories #gunpowder #loves #man

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room. ↗

— George Axelrod

#bill #chic #dollar #fifty #gentleman

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine. ↗

— Isabella Bird

#bit #claimed #dried #everybody #gold

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder. ↗

— Art Blakey

#eventually #ever #grinds #powder #truth

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power. ↗

— Julia Child

#anything #baking #cake #cakes #egg

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#allow #because #being #burn #cash

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#any #enough #hard #i #into

A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#because #costs #keep #much #paint

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#british empire #brought #controlled #earth #empire