"In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face."

-- Bill Bryson

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“The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?'”
“If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.”
“Seriously, Shane? Ditto? That's the best you can do?" Shane and Michael exchanged identical looks and shrugs. Guys. "Let me show you idiots how it's done," Eve said, and hugged Claire fiercely. She kissed her on the cheek. "I love you, CB. Please take care of yourself, okay?" "I love you, too," Claire said, and suddenly her throat felt tight and her eyes burned with tears. "I really do." Shane and Michael watched them with identical expressions of blank bemusement, and finally Shane said, "So basically, it's what I said. Ditto.”
“A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.”
“I don't worry about losing my looks. It's finding them on someone else that worries me.”
“Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.”
“Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.”

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