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• I followed him through the halls of the enormous church until we got to the staff's kitchen. He went to the fridge, opened it, and came out with a bottle of bourbon. He poured some into a coffee cup, drank it down, and poured some more. He offered me the bottle. No, thanks. Aren't you supposed to drink vodka? Aren't you supposed to wear a pointy hat and ride on a flying broomstick? Touche, I said.

  Jim Butcher

  Coffee, Flying, Kitchen

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.387, Penguin

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• It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.

  Melina Marchetta

  Morning, Passion, Sleep

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.164, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

  John Fowles

  Wall, Thinking, Glasses

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Devil, Done

  Treasure Island ch. 1 (1883). Stevenson took the phrase dead man's chest from a pirate name for an isle in Charles Kingsley, At Last, ch. 1 (1870).

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• Morning breaks. So do bottles and bones.

  Clint Catalyst

  Morning, Bones, Break

  Clint Catalyst (2000). “Cottonmouth Kisses”, Manic d Press

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• I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips. A bottle of iodine. A box of wooden matches. A small coil of wire. A pair of sunglasses. And a half-gallon plastic bottle with a cap for carrying water that's bone dry. No water. How hard would it have been for them to fill up the bottle?

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Iodine, Water

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.

  Suzanne Collins

  Glasses, Alcohol, Mind

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

  Craig Ferguson

  Book, World, Shapes

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• If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Filled Up, Digging A Hole

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.116, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Dresden. Am I interrupting something?" "Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don't have enough for two.

  Jim Butcher

  Baby, Two, Oil

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.112, Penguin

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• Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments its interest has been centred, absolutely and exclusively, on its cradle and feeding bottle.

  James Jeans

  Science, Humanity, Lasts

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1928). “Nature”

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• I've never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade.

  George Carlin

  Stupid, People, Guy

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• Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe, Gimme a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

  Tupac Shakur

  Couple, Party, Writing

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• I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle, I make mistakes but learn from every one, And when it's said and done, I bet this brother be a better one, If I upset you don't stress, Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet

  Tupac Shakur

  Brother, Mistake, Stress

  Song: Ghetto Gospel, Album: Loyal to the Game, 2004

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• Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Softball, Baseball, Games

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• Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

  Cher

  Funny, Fitness, Health

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• That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine" Which was about all he seemed to have. He poured out two mugfuls. "Very nice," said Adrian, sipping appreciatively. "I wonder how they got the cat to sit on the bottle." "It's cheap, that's the main thing.

  Stephen Fry

  Nice, Wine, Cat

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.97, Soho Press

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• The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Heart, Thinking, Comforting

  Hannah Hurnard (2013). “Hinds Feet on High Places”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Father, Trying

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• If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

  Jim Croce

  Birthday, Firsts, Wedding Ceremony

  Song: Time In A Bottle

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• When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time I was twelve years old I owned my own home.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Home, Kissing

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.28, Penguin

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• When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Loss, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.44, CUP Archive

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• We have to get families back in the game, get back where Saturday night, everything stops. A case of beer comes out and a bottle of rye and anyone who comes to the house, they better want to watch hockey.

  Bobby Hull

  Beer, Hockey, Night

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• World series attitude, champagne bottle life, nothing ever changes so tonight is like tomorrow night.

  Drake

  Life, Change, Attitude

  Song: Miss Me, Album: Thank Me Later

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• A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wine, Shining, Retrospect

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.473, e-artnow

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