#foil

He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#children #epiphany #inspiration #mirror-images #inspirational

من المستحيل أن تحمي أطفالك من الإحباط أو خيبة الأمل التي سيصادفونها في حياتهم ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#foil #life-lessons #novels #life

Sleeping in a tinfoil suit keeps me warmer and helps prepare me for my voyage to the moon. Would you care for some licorice? 
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #licorice #moon #non-sequitur #preparation

Wrap fish fillets, sliced veggies, and other quick-cooking items inside foil packets with bundles of fresh herbs and throw them directly on the grill; the steam will release the herb's perfume and flavor anything contained inside the pouch. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#contained #directly #fish #flavor #foil

A Kiss is a terrible name for a piece of chocolate shaped like a water droplet, because kisses are hot and would melt chocolate—even if it is wearing an astronaut suit made out of tinfoil.
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— Jarod Kintz

#chocolate #funny #humor #kiss #melt

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#computers #does #episode #everyone #foil

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#foil #i #lot #people #pretty

I don't have aluminum foil on my windows anymore. ↗

— Rick James

#foil #i #windows

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#especially #family #foil #funny #man

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253. ↗

— Peter King

#attacks #blindly #bring #done #down