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Alan Bradley Quotes

The panel on the right portrayed Jesus emerging from his tomb, as Mary Magdalene, in a red dress (also iron, or perhaps grated particles of gold), holds out to him a purple garment (manganese dioxide) and a loaf of yellow bread (silver chloride) Picture Quote #1

Being Flavia de Luce was like being a sublimate: like the black crystal residue that is left on the cold glass of a test tube by the violet fumes of iodine Picture Quote #1

I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die Picture Quote #1

Why then had I heard nothing? Everyone knows that the killing of a human being requires the exertion of a certain amount of mechanical energy. I forget the exact formula, although I know there is one Picture Quote #1

I realized at once that a great actress can never be greater than when she's starring in her own life Picture Quote #1

I lay for a long time in silence, staring at the ceiling. Was my life always to be like this? I wondered. Was it going to go, forever, in an instant, from sunshine to shadow? From pandemonium to loneliness? From fierce anger to a fiercer kind of love? Picture Quote #1

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Thinking and prayer are much the same thing anyway, when you stop to think about it - if that makes any sense. Prayer goes up and thought comes down - or so it seems. As far as I can tell, that's the only difference Picture Quote #1

Impertinent children ought to be given six coats of shellac and set up in public places as a warning to others Picture Quote #1

If God meant for pictures to be sent through the air He'd have never would have given us cinema. Or the national gallery Picture Quote #1

because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world Picture Quote #1

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life Picture Quote #1

I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. a little window into the creation Picture Quote #1

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A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories Picture Quote #1

It was quite wrong of me Had I heard what I thought I'd heard or were my ears playing hob with me It was more likely that the sun and the moon should suddenly dance a jolly jig in the heavens than that one of my sisters should apologize. It was simply unheard of Picture Quote #1

I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a feeling that is quite the opposite of fear. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories. I'd had the good fortune of seeing several of them in my time Picture Quote #1

I remembered father remarking once that if rudeness was not attributable to ignorance it could be taken as a sure sign that one was speaking to a member of the aristocracy Picture Quote #1

I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal. Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness Picture Quote #1

It always surprises me after a family row to find that the world outdoors has remained the same. While the passions and feelings that accumulate like noxious gases inside a house seem to condense and cling to the walls and ceilings like old smoke the out-of-doors is different. The landscape seems incapable of accumulating human radiation. Perhaps the wind blows anger away Picture Quote #1

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When you're that age, you sometimes have a great enthusiasm that is very deep and very narrow, and that is something that has always intrigued me - that world of the eleven-year-old that is so quickly lost Picture Quote #1

Diamonds were nothing more than carbon, but carbon in a crystal lattice that made it the hardest known mineral in nature. That was the way we all were headed. I was sure of it. We were destined to be diamonds! How exciting it was to think that, long after the world had ended, whatever was left of our bodies would be transformed into a dazzling blizzard of diamond dust, blowing out towards eternity in the red glow of a dying sun Picture Quote #1

Perhaps, I thought, whenever we began to breathe the breath of others, when the spinning atoms of their bodies began to mingle withour own, we took on something of their personality, like crystals in a snowflake. Perhaps we became something more, yet something lesser than ourselves Picture Quote #1

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning Picture Quote #1

I had concocted the gunpowder myself from niter, sulfur, charcoal, and a happy heart. When working with explosives, I've found that attitude is everything Picture Quote #1

Now, glancing over... as she knelt with her eyes closed, her fingertips touching and pointed to Heaven, and her lips shaping soft words of devotion, I had to pinch myself to keep in mind that I was sitting next to the Devil's Hairball Picture Quote #1

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There's an unwritten law of the universe which assures that the thing you seek will always be found in the last place you look. It applies to everything in life from lost socks to misplaced poisons Picture Quote #1

We Three Kings of Leicester Square, Selling ladies' underwear, So fantastic, no elastic, Only tuppence a pair Picture Quote #1

My head was spinning. I could think of nothing better to calm it down than the Oxford English Dictionary Picture Quote #1

A long hallway, hung profusely with dark, water-stained sporting prints, served as a lobby, in which centuries of sacrificed kippers had left the smell of their smoky souls clinging to the wallpaper. Only the patch of sunshine visible through the open front door relieved the gloom Picture Quote #1

Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only on a single pair of shoulders? Picture Quote #1

I wanted to cry. I also wanted to go to my laboratory and prepare an enormous batch of nitrogen triiodide with which to blow up, in a spectacular mushroom cloud of purple vapor, the world and everyone in it Picture Quote #1

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The panel on the right portrayed Jesus emerging from his tomb, as Mary Magdalene, in a red dress (also iron, or perhaps grated particles of gold), holds out to him a purple garment (manganese dioxide) and a loaf of yellow bread (silver chloride) (Alan Bradley Quotes) Being Flavia de Luce was like being a sublimate: like the black crystal residue that is left on the cold glass of a test tube by the violet fumes of iodine (Alan Bradley Quotes) I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die (Alan Bradley Quotes) Why then had I heard nothing? Everyone knows that the killing of a human being requires the exertion of a certain amount of mechanical energy. I forget the exact formula, although I know there is one (Alan Bradley Quotes) I realized at once that a great actress can never be greater than when she's starring in her own life (Alan Bradley Quotes) I lay for a long time in silence, staring at the ceiling. Was my life always to be like this? I wondered. Was it going to go, forever, in an instant, from sunshine to shadow? From pandemonium to loneliness? From fierce anger to a fiercer kind of love? (Alan Bradley Quotes) Thinking and prayer are much the same thing anyway, when you stop to think about it - if that makes any sense. Prayer goes up and thought comes down - or so it seems. As far as I can tell, that's the only difference (Alan Bradley Quotes) Impertinent children ought to be given six coats of shellac and set up in public places as a warning to others (Alan Bradley Quotes) If God meant for pictures to be sent through the air He'd have never would have given us cinema. Or the national gallery (Alan Bradley Quotes) because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world (Alan Bradley Quotes) Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life (Alan Bradley Quotes) I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. a little window into the creation (Alan Bradley Quotes) A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories (Alan Bradley Quotes) It was quite wrong of me Had I heard what I thought I'd heard or were my ears playing hob with me It was more likely that the sun and the moon should suddenly dance a jolly jig in the heavens than that one of my sisters should apologize. It was simply unheard of (Alan Bradley Quotes) I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a feeling that is quite the opposite of fear. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories. I'd had the good fortune of seeing several of them in my time (Alan Bradley Quotes) I remembered father remarking once that if rudeness was not attributable to ignorance it could be taken as a sure sign that one was speaking to a member of the aristocracy (Alan Bradley Quotes) I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal. Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness (Alan Bradley Quotes) It always surprises me after a family row to find that the world outdoors has remained the same. While the passions and feelings that accumulate like noxious gases inside a house seem to condense and cling to the walls and ceilings like old smoke the out-of-doors is different. The landscape seems incapable of accumulating human radiation. Perhaps the wind blows anger away (Alan Bradley Quotes) When you're that age, you sometimes have a great enthusiasm that is very deep and very narrow, and that is something that has always intrigued me - that world of the eleven-year-old that is so quickly lost (Alan Bradley Quotes) Diamonds were nothing more than carbon, but carbon in a crystal lattice that made it the hardest known mineral in nature. That was the way we all were headed. I was sure of it. We were destined to be diamonds! How exciting it was to think that, long after the world had ended, whatever was left of our bodies would be transformed into a dazzling blizzard of diamond dust, blowing out towards eternity in the red glow of a dying sun (Alan Bradley Quotes) Perhaps, I thought, whenever we began to breathe the breath of others, when the spinning atoms of their bodies began to mingle withour own, we took on something of their personality, like crystals in a snowflake. Perhaps we became something more, yet something lesser than ourselves (Alan Bradley Quotes) Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning (Alan Bradley Quotes) I had concocted the gunpowder myself from niter, sulfur, charcoal, and a happy heart. When working with explosives, I've found that attitude is everything (Alan Bradley Quotes) Now, glancing over... as she knelt with her eyes closed, her fingertips touching and pointed to Heaven, and her lips shaping soft words of devotion, I had to pinch myself to keep in mind that I was sitting next to the Devil's Hairball (Alan Bradley Quotes) There's an unwritten law of the universe which assures that the thing you seek will always be found in the last place you look. It applies to everything in life from lost socks to misplaced poisons (Alan Bradley Quotes) We Three Kings of Leicester Square, Selling ladies' underwear, So fantastic, no elastic, Only tuppence a pair (Alan Bradley Quotes) My head was spinning. I could think of nothing better to calm it down than the Oxford English Dictionary (Alan Bradley Quotes) A long hallway, hung profusely with dark, water-stained sporting prints, served as a lobby, in which centuries of sacrificed kippers had left the smell of their smoky souls clinging to the wallpaper. Only the patch of sunshine visible through the open front door relieved the gloom (Alan Bradley Quotes) Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only on a single pair of shoulders? (Alan Bradley Quotes) I wanted to cry. I also wanted to go to my laboratory and prepare an enormous batch of nitrogen triiodide with which to blow up, in a spectacular mushroom cloud of purple vapor, the world and everyone in it (Alan Bradley Quotes)

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