Bottles Quotes - Page 30

• Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dirty, Wine, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by age. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Age, Habitat, Mud

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• We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.

  Jack Kerouac

  Running, Scotch, Car

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.56, BookBaby

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• I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, World

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference". ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

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• It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.

  Howard Rheingold

  Reality, Too Late, Way

  Source: medium.com

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• The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?

  Aaron Karo

  Wall, Reading, Wine

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• The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to cyberspace, that is to say, to the process because of which we now have two bottles instead of one. I might not see this virtual bottle, but I can feel it. It is settled within reality. This explains why the word virtual reality is more important than the word cyberspace, which is more poetic.

  Paul Virilio

  Reality, Two, Important

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a bible, a deck of playing cards, a bottle of sherry, and stacks of yellow sticky pads. I shut myself in for six, seven hours. I have an arrangement with the hotel that no one may go in my room. After three or four months, they might slip notes under my door like, "Dear Ms. Angelou, please let us change the linens. We think they might be molding." It's probably true. I let them in if they promise not to touch anything other then the bed.

  Maya Angelou

  Morning, Thinking, Yellow

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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• I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius strip. Because he believed in the Klein Bottle, you see. And I said, "How in hell can you claim to believe in the Klein Bottle and think that the Mobius strip is dubious?" He said, "Well, it's a torus." I don't know what he had in his mind as a mathematical background, because I don't think he got topology. Because, in other words, the Mobius strip didn't have angles in it.

  Paul Laffoley

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Every year my boss used to give me a bottle of expensive brandy because I'd told him that my doctor suggested a drink once in a while. This year my boss gave me the name of a new doctor.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Doctors, Years

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• When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning out. I began aspiring to be an "Aquamaid" at a resort called "Aquarena Springs" in my hometown of San Marcos: Aquamaids got to wear mermaid tails and feed milk bottles underwater to Ralph the Swimming Pig for an audience submerged in a "submarine".

  Elizabeth Crook

  Spring, Swimming, Eight

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• Libya faces along to the Mediterranean and had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa. So all problems, economic problems and civil war in Africa - previously people fleeing those problems didn't end up in Europe because Libya policed the Mediterranean. That was said explicitly at the time, back in early 2011 by [Muammar] Gaddafi: 'What do these Europeans think they're doing, trying to bomb and destroy the Libyan State? There's going to be floods of migrants out of Africa and jihadists into Europe, and this is exactly what happened.

  Julian Assange

  War, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Placing a wedge of lime in the neck of a Corona bottle helps sell those beers. And where did that ritual come from? One story has it that two bartenders in California were curious how fast a ritual could spread. Astonishingly fast, they discovered.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Beer, Two, California

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• What do Jake 'The Snake' Roberts and a beer bottle have in common? They're both empty from the neck up!

  Jerry Lawler

  Beer, Snakes, Jake

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.

  George C. Scott

  Done, Shooting, Quitting

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• I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

  Ethel Waters

  Couple, Beer, Giving

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• I suppose I like to give people something to talk and think about. I can just be the person that kind of put a message in the bottle to see where it ends up.

  Jlin

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Men, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.791, Delphi Classics

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• I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't have to imagine a Mobius strip. It's right there in front of you!" But [Buckminster Fuller] couldn't see how that could involve a cross cap, meaning something that couldn't be reduced to a two-dimensional surface. Which it does. It's because he was thinking that the matrix was the thing that a fly could walk over the edge of, like a torus.

  Paul Laffoley

  Believe, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely not always strong-hope that it may somehow wash up somewhere, perhaps on the shoreline of the heart. In this way, too, poems are en route: they are headed towards. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality. Such realities are, I think, at stake in a poem.

  Paul Celan

  Strong, Heart, Reality

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• Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

  Horace

  Carpe Diem, Green Fields, Remember You

  Odes 11.3

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• If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

  Mick Jagger

  Night, People, Bigs

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• My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

  Johnny Cash

  Family, Home, Guitar

  Song: A Boy Named Sue, Album: At San Quentin, 1969

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• Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

  Al Yankovic

  Records, Coke, Tongue

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• The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.

  Merle Haggard

  Alcohol, Drug, Social

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