Bottles Quotes - Page 27

• The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Demand, Whiskey, Constant

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). “The Great Gatsby”, p.30, Oxford University Press

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• The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it's a celebration, so there's no better way of starting a celebration than opening a bottle of champagne. Every time you sip it, you're sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time.

  David Levithan

  Joy, Wire, Way

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.53, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. "I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.

  Gordon Korman

  Crazy, Artist, Feet

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• I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

  David Levithan

  Talking, Alcohol, Trying

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

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• Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting the bottle too hard. But then I got stabbed and should have died, but instead a bunch of cops and ambulance people showed up because somebody who wasn’t even there sent them on ahead to save my life. If something like that happens to someone like me, you start to have a little faith in something bigger. I don’t know if I believe in magic or miracles all the time. But I believe in you, Detective Walker. I believe in you.

  C.E. Murphy

  Believe, Should Have, People

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• I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Wish, Use, Want

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2011). “The Man of My Dreams”, p.346, Random House

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• Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.

  Stephen Colbert

  Life, Jobs, Epic

  TV Series "The Colbert Report" (Season 3, 2007), 2005–2015.

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• Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.

  Rachel Caine

  Water, Temptation, Example

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• Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding eye. Like the sun in the sky, Comrade Napoleon! Thou are the giver of All thy creatures love, Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon; Every beast great or small, Sleeps at peace in his stall, Thou watchest over all, Comrade Napoleon! Had I a sucking-pig, Ere he had grown as big Even as a pint bottle or a a rolling-pin He should have learned to be Faithful and true to thee, Yes, his first squeak should be Comrade Napoleon!

  George Orwell

  Sleep, Eye, Fire

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• Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.

  Gayle Forman

  Sweat, Smell, Scent

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.109, Penguin

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• Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking

  "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 1998.

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• When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp?

  Milan Kundera

  Wine, Mean, World

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• George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins. "You're kidding," I said. "Are those Minotaur-shaped?" Hermes picked up the bottle and rattled it. "The lemon ones, yes. The grape ones are Furies, I think. Or are they hydras? At any rate, these are potent."

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Hydra, Littles

  "Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. May 1, 2008.

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• The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.

  Heidi W. Durrow

  Beautiful, Mean, Feelings

  Heidi W. Durrow (2011). “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, p.166, Algonquin Books

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• Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.

  Jay McInerney

  Wine, Sleep, Night

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• A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Mother, Wife

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• Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.

  Tom Robbins

  Drinking, Beer, Soul

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.411, Bantam

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• here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Mind, Secret, Age

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.227, Delphi Classics

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• For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Technology, Mind

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.1913, Delphi Classics

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• [in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.

  Christopher Moore

  Grandmother, Self, Turkeys

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• Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.

  Koren Zailckas

  Plato, Circles, Half

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.121, Penguin

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• Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Talking, Two

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.315, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.

  Mary Roach

  Beer, Three, Hormones

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• Talon glanced around the loft. It looked as if a bottle of Pepto-Bismol had exploded, or the Cat in the Hat had come for a visit.’ (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cat, Hats, Talons

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.407, St. Martin's Griffin

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• (Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.) Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay a fortune to have something that toxic in their arsenal. (Tiernan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Army, Toxic, Looks

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Maggie Shayne, Suzanne Forster, Virginia Kantra (2004). “Man of My Dreams”, p.38, Penguin

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