Terry Pratchett

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

English Author

KT Tunstall

I don't let housekeeping in when I stay in hotels. It cuts down on all the caustic cleaning products and aggressive water usage, and I never use the little plastic bottles of toiletries they set out.

Scottish Musician

Boy George

Sometimes, having a reputation can be the best thing because people expect you to be really difficult, perhaps a bit caustic, and hard work - and I'm none of those things.

English Musician

Katherine Ryan

I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's quite literary over here, and alternative comedy isn't so alternative.

Canadian Comedian

George Eliot

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

British Author

David Karp

I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

American Businessman

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The caustic style of 'Archer' was really on my mind when I was first doing 'BoJack' - perhaps too much!

American Comedian

Vera Farmiga

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

American Actress

Jason Statham

Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go.

British Actor

Samuel Goldwyn

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

American Producer

Remember, 'caustic' implies danger. Use in contexts discussing hazardous materials or warning labels.

Safety First

'Caustic' is used in scientific and industrial contexts more than in everyday language.

Technical Term

'Caustic' substances cause visible damage, so it's often used to describe observable chemical effects.

Visible Damage

In humor, 'caustic' means brutally honest and sharp, but funny. Best used among friends.

Harsh Humor

Use 'caustic' to describe criticism that's harsh and possibly hurtful. Use with awareness of impact.

Critique with Care

'Caustic' conveys strong emotions. It suggests the speaker is annoyed or frustrated.

Emotionally Charged

 and separate from you. And this was the portion of my brain that I lost on the morning of my stroke. On the morning of the stroke, I woke up to a pounding pain behind my left eye. And it was the kind of caustic pain that you get when you bite into ice cream. And it just gripped me --

My stroke of insight PIPE...

 solid individual separate from the energy flow around me and separate from you and this is a portion of my brain that I lost on the morning of my stroke on the morning of the stroke I woke up to a pounding pain behind my left eye and it was the kind of pain caustic pain

Stroke of insight - Jill...

 And sea slugs eat jellyfish nematocysts, prevent their activation with compounds in their mucus, and repurpose them for their own defenses. The bombardier beetle is no the toads that swallow them can tolerate the caustic spray that Darwin found so distasteful.

Why don’t poisonous...

 At that time, there was no vaccine available against polio. People didn't know what to do. They were going crazy. They would go painting trees with caustic lime. They'd put little bags of camphor in their children's underwear, as if that could do something.

Romina Libster: The...

 obviously never seen me cook. While we wait for this caustic mixture to work its magic, I learn about the traditional way of grinding corn. Straight in. Yes. yes. All right. Does that go in there? You just-- Switch. Is that right? Around, how?

Gordon Makes Hominy PIPE...

 the bombardier beetle it can create a chemical reaction within its body so violent that boiling caustic liquid explodes out of its abdomen by pulsing the jet 500 times a second it keeps its rear end just cool enough to prevent it being cooked

Bombardier Beetle Sprays...

 to clear heads in the caustic water Domingo's feed with their bills upside down the enlarged upper bill acts as a float to keep the bird's head near the surface and the super rich scum because the food is microscopic the

Flamingo Attacked by...

 is the low reproductive success partly because of the pollution issue you know when when the dolphin deep breath to the yarn delivers the milk and usually they will pass on the caustic substance to their feeding to

Pink Dolphins Are...

 flamingo's drink having dined a caustic waters in the way they bathed and cream to wash away the glorious minerals which could turn their feathers to stone and drown them forever

Flamingos of Bogoria PIPE...

 and our convenient memories. The lies we tell ourselves are lakes, overflowing their banks, flooding our speech with waters, caustic and rank. The only bridge is the truth,