Bowls Quotes

• It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.

  Chris Cleave

  Children, Sunshine, Clouds

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Space, Taoism, Clay

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• Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.

  Christopher Moore

  Drinking, Men, Perfectly Good

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.

  Louis C. K.

  Kindness, Comedian, Looks

  "Louie: Pregnant". TV Series, tv.avclub.com. 2011.

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• Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.

  Anacreon

  War, Lying, Wine

  Anacreon, John Broderick Roche (1827). “The First Twenty-eight Odes of Anacreon: In Greek and in English and in Both Languages, in Prose as Well as in Verse : with Variorum Notes, a Grammatical Analysis and a Lexicon”, p.189

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• Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Moon, Sky, Black

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1971). “Poems and problems”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

  Edward Young

  Love, Wine, Giving

  Edward Young (1798). “The Works of Edward Young ...: In Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.191

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• I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Team, Winning, Two

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• I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight
  A sly grin and a bowl full of stars

  Tom Waits

  Stars, Wish, Moonlight

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• The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Lying, Emotional, Space

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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• No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Winning, Years

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• Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

  Confucius

  Education, Kindness, Men

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• I'm not much of cook, but I cook a mean bowl of oatmeal.

  Mahershala Ali

  Mean, Oatmeal, Cooks

  "Mahershala Ali: the 'free state of Jones'". Interview with Sam Williams, www.eurweb.com. June 24, 2016.

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• Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop.

  Sam Cooke

  Dancing, Body, Soup

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• The bowl dispels corroding cares.

  Horace

  Care

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

  Laozi

  Money, Heart, Knives

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• If you give somebody a lot of questions to answer and then they walk by a bowl of candy, they are more likely to grab the candy because they're tired out from answering questions and can't resist.

  Edward Boyden

  Tired, Giving, Answers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Training, Looks

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• Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Song, Listening, Soup

  "Privy counsels" by A.C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed in a glass bowl. ... When the bowl was heated over a spirit lamp, an extremely violent explosion occurred, which shattered it into small fragments. On another occasion a drop was heated in a test-tube, and exploded with such violence that the glass splinters cut deep into my face and hands, and hurt other people who were standing some distance off in the room.

  Ascanio Sobrero

  Hurt, Distance, Cutting

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• Yeah, this country's founding fathers are a bunch of dead rich white men, but they did set things up so you could come and sit at the table, so don't piss in the finger bowls, all right? Thank you. In return for unfettered economic opportunity and no government death squads, try to get along with your new stepmotherland, and don't be resentful if there's a set of house rules already in place.

  Dennis Miller

  Country, Father, Opportunity

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.31, Main Street Books

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• A friend of mine drowned in a bowl of muesli. A strong currant pulled him in.

  Tommy Cooper

  Strong, Mines

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• Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

  William Shakespeare

  Cheer, Wine, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Richard III”, p.124, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

  Erma Bombeck

  Football, Funny Inspirational, College

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• Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and he seemed prepared to stare at it until it went under. In the Kitchen Bridget was still singing one of her awful sad songs; the lyrics drifted in through the door: "Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air, I heard a maid making her moan; Said, 'Saw ye my father? Or ye my mother? Or saw ye my brother John? Or saw ye the lad that I love best, And his name it is Sweet William?" I may murder her, Tessa thought. Let her make a song about that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Sweet, Song

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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