Standard Boiling Point

Famous quotes containing the words standard, boiling and/or point:

    “Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.”
    —Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)

    “There comes a point in many people’s lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.”
    —Brian Moore (b. 1921)