Saltpetre Quotes & Sayings

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't. — J.D. Salinger

Great Leaders do NOT break the law, not because of the fear of being caught but because of the fear of God & love for the land — Fela Durotoye

Wow-Wow Sauce, a mixture of mature scumble, pickled cucumbers, capers, mustard, mangoes, figs, grated wahooni, anchovy essence, asafetida and, significantly, sulfur and saltpetre for added potency. Ridcully inherited the formula from his uncle who, after half a pint of sauce on a big meal one evening, had a charcoal biscuit to settle his stomach, lit his pipe and disappeared in mysterious circumstances, although his shoes were found on the roof the following summer. — Terry Pratchett

I've dated jerks, so why not geeks? — Kelly LeBrock

Those who make candles will find it a great improvement to steep the wicks in lime-water and saltpetre, and dry them. The flame is clearer, and the tallow will not 'run. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with "allergies" to dairy and wheat - cheese and bread basically - but also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed "allergies," I believe, to the foods they had seen their own mothers fearing and loathing as diet fads passed through their homes. I could've strangled their mothers for saddling these girls with the idea that food is an enemy - some of them only eight years old and already weird about wanting a piece of bread - and I would've liked to bludgeon them, too, for forcing me to participate in their young daughters' fucked-up relationship with food. — Gabrielle Hamilton

Major improvements don't happen over night. Their are many moments inching towards improvement. The difference between those who make major improvements in their lives are the ones who embrace patience and wait through the darkness as long as it takes. — Matthew Donnelly

Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do. — Josh Radnor

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually. — Lenny Kravitz

Ten books in and the Red Stone Security series is still going strong because of you, my wonderful readers. Thank you. — Katie Reus

The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken. — Bree Despain

The only way to bury the past is to build tomorrow on top of it. — Craig Lancaster