Bottles Quotes - Page 11

• I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke
  bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple

  Steve Jobs

  Sleep, Meals, Coke

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• After Ive enjoyed a floral bouquet to its fullest, I drop a few petals in a bottle with distilled water to create my own soothing toner.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Water, Bouquets, Petals

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• Men will now get up and walk with the baby in the middle of the night, change its diapers, and give it a bottle, but in their heart of hearts they still think they shouldn't have to.

  Rita Rudner

  Baby, Heart, Night

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• Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.

  Ice Cube

  Successful, Artist, Wish

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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• What happened in the United changing room has happened to me 50 times in my career. I have kicked bottles of mineral water, bags and shoes but I never hit a player. It's a question of technique, and the Scots must have a better technique.

  Marcello Lippi

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I just loved going fast. So I started out with Alka-Seltzer and soda water in a bottle and attached it to the skateboard. That didn't do much. I would try a leaf blower. I was searching for anything that would go fast. Then, the lawnmower engine.

  Kellan Lutz

  Water, Trying, Soda

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• There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Song, Night, Men

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• Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle. And the second-worst sound is a fork scratching a glass bottle. Evidently they did all their research at the Picnic for Morons.

  Peter Sagal

  Funny, Cutting, Science

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• When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Glasses, Ego

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• We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.

  Nick Bostrom

  Intelligent, Forever, Be Confident

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• It took me over a couple of months to find the right piece of transparent paper for a section near the centre, on the right side of the Garden of Nebuchadnezzar. When I did find it, it was on a bottle of my wife's toilet water.

  Harold Town

  Couple, Garden, Water

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• Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Book, Ocean, World

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.128, Macmillan

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• Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens
  and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation - is worth it to me. [It is] impossible for me to imagine having
  my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Writing, Night

  "RIP Christopher Hitchens: Provocateur and Damn Good Writer" by Monika Bauerlein, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

  Marat Safin

  Good Luck, Russia, Washing

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• My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Scotch, Missing, Six

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• I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.

  Peter Capaldi

  Writing, Cartoon, Littles

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• I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Ambition, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• The decision to let go of that which has completed its course in your experience is even more important than the decision to welcome new ideas. You cannot walk forward by looking backward. New wine cannot be put into old bottles, for the Bible states that the old bottles will break. You intuitively know what should depart from your life.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Letting Go, Wine, Ideas

  Raymond Charles Barker (2011). “The Power of Decision: A Step-By-Step Program to Overcome Indecision and Live Without Failure Forever”, p.21, Penguin

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• I used to drink from my little sister’s bottle when she was a baby.

  Jessica Jung

  Baby, Little Sister, Snsd

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• Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak.

  Johnny Carson

  Dog, Scotch, Whiskey

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• It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

  Gerald Asher

  Wine, Needs, Chickens

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• She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks--- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.

  Henry Miller

  Beautiful, Eye, Sea

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• I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

  Gillian Flynn

  Despair, Degrees, Rage

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

  Alexander Pope

  People, Pouring, Noise

  'Miscellanies' (1727) vol. 2 'Thoughts on Various Subjects'

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• I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Wine, Good Company

  Ernest Hemingway (1926). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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