Logo
Quote by Alison Lurie
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. – Alison Lurie

Other quotes by Alison Lurie
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
War
category

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I dont want to make money that way. I dont want blood money. – Ted Turner

Category:
War

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
War

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. – Anatole Broyard

Category:
War

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. – Ron Paul

Category:
War

Random Quotes

There is no wealth but life. – John Ruskin

Category:
Life

I think 99 percent of womens lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology – it doesnt precede it. – Lois McMaster Bujold

Category:
Technology

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state. – Nursultan Nazarbayev

Category:
legal

Weve got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed. – John Ashcroft

Category:
Freedom