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“It was one of those things they keep in a jar in the tent of a sideshow on the outskirts of a little, drowsy town. One of those pale things drifting in alcohol plasma, forever dreaming and circling, with its peeled, dead eyes staring out at you and never seeing you. It went with the noiselessness of late night, and only the crickets chirping, the frogs sobbing off in the moist swampland. One of those things in a big jar that makes your stomach jump as it does when you see a preserved arm in a laboratory vat.”

Alcohol Pale Jars Drifting Vat Plasma Jar Preserved Peeled Swampland Noiselessness

Book:THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

Source: THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

“If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.”

Ifs Knows Should Hot Dry Tied Beaten Rope Corn Stoves Vat

Author:Denise Chavez

“Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.”

Ifs World Ends Moving Turns Morning Crime Future News Wake Up Credit Checks Cards Etc Pot Cake Max Credit Card Dip Carrots Coming To An End Clams Vat Nachos

Author:Anne Lamott

“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.”

Source: The Cyberiad

“It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it, what they'll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they'll vomit, and they'll come back and eat their body weight again. And they'll vomit. And they'll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.”

Ifs Giving Long Body Bigs Turns Stuff Walks One Thing Sweet Weight Fluff Marshmallow Vat Body Weight

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Sometimes I worry I don't want to get married as much as I'd like to be dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough.”

Want Sometimes Worry Married Warm Bread Rising Dough Vat

Author:Maria Bamford

“I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.”

World Trying Real Imagination Return Necks Real World Goblin Vat

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.”

Writing Water Tree Essence Tiny Sugar Candy Thrillers Sap Boiling Compact Informative Maple Nuggets Vat

Author:Dan Brown

“On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?”

Ifs World Choices Felt Mankind Waste Resources Substance Exhausted Finite Consuming Prospects Multiplying Yeast Brewers Vat

Author:Farley Mowat

“I remember one play [when I was kid] was about this murderous mad scientist, and my whole part was to be the guy who got thrown into a vat of acid as the curtain went up. I was very pissed off at these older kids; they'd outsmarted me.”

Play Whole Kids Remember Guy Scientist Mad Thrown Curtains Acid Pissed Off Mad Scientist Vat

Author:Paul Reubens

“The promise to use the money we currently send to Brussels and invest it instead on the priorities of the British people - principally in the NHS - and to cut VAT on domestic fuel. With my leadership, it will be delivered.”

People Use Cutting Promise British Priorities Fuel Brussels Nhs Vat

Author:Michael Gove

“Today "aged" foods like sauerkraut, miso, and tempeh are fermented in hygienically sanitized stainless-steel vats to assure cleanliness, so we can no longer be sure they will provide us with the B12 we need. Vegans should not mess around with this issue.”

Needs Should Today Issues Mess Vegan Steel Cleanliness Vat Sauerkraut

Author:Sharon Gannon

“I set up stations, buy a big vat of chili, and then guests do what they want to do - and I still get to party.”

Want Stills Bigs Party Stations Guests Chili Vat

Author:Emily Henderson

“People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!”

People Dream Class Swimming Geometry Chili Vat

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!”

Majors Conservative Cameron Vat

Author:David Miliband

“My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.”

Giving Whole Process My Family Christmas Labels Giants Grapes Cherries Peaches Vinegar Vat

Author:Mario Batali

“Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.”

Church Comfortable Chocolate Bells Closets Coffins Vat Church Bells

Author:Daniel Handler

“When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like.”

Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel

“Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.”

Way Worst Silver Burned Soup Vat

Book:Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate

Source: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate

“Did they launch the last space shuttle yet?” – Sundown “I don’t follow.” – Ren “I’m just thinking maybe we should evacuate the whole planet. I’ve heard the moon is kind of nice this time of year.” – Sundown “Focus your ADD, Jess.” – Ren “I gotcha, brother. What you’re forecasting is six more plagues coming out of the northwest at maximum velocity with a mild chance of survival. Followed by the world getting swallowed whole in a vat of evil.” – Sundown”

Thinking World Should Years Kind Whole Lasts Evil Chance Space Focus Nice Heard Planets Brother Moon Six Survival Add Coming Out Maximum Plague Velocity Space Shuttle Forecasting Vat

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.”

Men Made Different Bits Dog Baby Cat Cooks Fifty Hats Sunday Flats Splits Cheese Rats Soup Drowning Nests Cradle Spoiled Vat Kegs Pied Piper Inside Man

Author:Robert Browning

“Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.”

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“I do wanna get married. It just sounds great. You get to go grocery shopping together, rent videos, and the kissing and the hugging and the kissing and the hugging under the cozy covers. Mmmm! But sometimes I worry that I don't wanna get married as much as I want to get dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. That might feel pretty good, too.”

Want Feels Sometimes Might Together Sound Worry Relationship Kissing Married Warm Video Bread Rising Shopping Hug Groceries Funny Marriage Funny Relationship Cozy Dough Grocery Shopping Vat

Author:Maria Bamford

“I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most of the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as “nigh -walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.” But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer imiverse, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder.”

“We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.”

Source: The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

“And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,-sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out into the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! This contributed to the passing of the Pure Food Act of 1906.”

Men World Sometimes Enough Would Be Law Science Left Levels Rooms Gone Trouble Pure Bones Passing Passings Peculiar Leafs Tanks Steam Overlooked Vat Durham Lard

Author:Upton Sinclair

“Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.”

Bottom Fats Vat

Book:The Pilgrim's Progress and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Source: The Pilgrim's Progress and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

“Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.”

Knows Firsts Budgets Do You Know Retirement Ruined Yacht Vat

Author:Edward Heath

“Do not put this product in a big vat and drop rats into it from a cat-walk.”

Bigs Walks Products Cat Rats Vat

Author:Dave Barry

“At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.”

Home Bigs Soup Slim Cabbage Vat

Author:Jilly Cooper

“On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.”

Needs Funny Comedy Months Return Files Receipts Vat Muggers

Author:Dara O Briain

“We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”

Dream Rich Growing Sells Marketing Avarice Parcel Vat Boiler

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.”

Ifs Way Wells Mean Bigs Deals Eating Warm Chains Ties Designer Fuel Sugar Engineers Bugs Big Deal Molecules Vat Biofuels

Author:John Doerr

“Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now.”

Years Real Happens Taxes Solutions Combination Revenue Medicare Vat Sales Tax

Author:Paul Krugman

“I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.”

Children Four Cost Taxes Weakness Our Children Debt Vat

Author:Sadie Frost

“My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.”

Years I Can Two Running Pain Half Four Changed Years Ago Currents Life Changing Two Years Electric Acid Spine Half A Year Submerged Unrelenting Vat Electric Current Excruciating Pain

Author:Bill Walton

“Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?”

Comedy Cold Whiskey Whisky Drinking Whiskey Whiskey Drinking Vat Whiskey And Love

Author:W. C. Fields

“I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.”

Way Dream Would Be Used Fantasy Growing Up Growing Slave Ice My Way Princess Cream Costumes Ice Cream Recurring Vat Leia Recurring Dreams

Author:Dan Fogler