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Letter "G" » gas
«A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.»
Author: Charles Abrams
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
excitement, gas, gas station, highways, obliterate, obliterated, obliterates, slum, slumming, slums, stations
«Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas»
«How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing!»
Author: Neville Chamberlain
| Keywords:
digging, fantastic, gas, horrible, incredible, know nothing, masks, quarrel, trenched, trenches, trying on
«A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - -billions upon billions of stars»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
billions, composed, galaxies, galaxy, gas, the Galaxy
«An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
expectancy, fleeting, gas, gas tank, lighted, look into, match, popularity, tank, tanked, tanks, tink
«A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pull lamps off their tables by their cords, or wake mommy before noon»
«'Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it, / And pay a million priests to bring it. / After two thousand years of mass / We've got as far as poison-gas.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
a million, gas, Mass, poison gas, priests, thousand million, Two thousand
«A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| Keywords:
bathroom, gas, gas station, invariably, privacy, shave, station, The Times
«Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.»
«Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
All in one, bare, barer, boiling, breaking off, break off, break open, buyer, buyers, engineer, envies, essentials, expert, gas, Her husband, manager, nutritionist, one-woman, pot, primitive, production, psychologist, psychologists, reduced, regular, soothe, telephone, toy, turn off
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