Standard Boiling Point

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

    “Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)

    “Lieutenant, I’d like to point out to you that I don’t have to put up with this crap from you. I’m not in your two-bit army, I’m in our two-bit army.”
    —Bryan Forbes (b. 1926)