Spills Quotes

• So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Memorable, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.329, Classic Books Company

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Knives, Simplicity

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• Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

  Louis MacNeice

  Stones, Killing, Kill Me

  'Prayer Before Birth' (1944)

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• And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

  Fredric Jameson

  Two, Culture, Levels

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

  John J. Geddes

  Writing, Dark, Moon

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• One man gathers what another man spills

  Robert Hunter

  Men, Another Man, One Man

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Laughter is what spills over the edge of an inspired life.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Laughter, Inspired, Over The Edge

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• Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

  Horace

  Mind, Superfluous

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• The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

  Richard J. Needham

  Birthday, Men, Age

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• What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Games, Criticism

  "Rand Paul: Obama's criticism of BP ‘un-American'". www.chron.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

  Jim Talent

  Jobs, Past, Oil

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• Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Sorry, Coffee

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie”

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• We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

  Sam Harris

  War, Blood, Ideas

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.53, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You can't have oil without oil spills.

  Markwayne Mullin

  Oil, Oil Spill

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• I spill water on myself all the time at nice restaurants. I've run into poles and knocked myself out.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Running, Nice, Water

  "25 Hottest Stars Under 25", Teen People Magazine, 2002.

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• The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky?

  Hilda Conkling

  Rain, Lakes, Sky

  Hilda Conkling (1929). “Poems by a Little Girl”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

  Douglas Adams

  Writing, Years, Fascination

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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• Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

  Barton Gellman

  Mom, Jobs, Love Life

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• War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

  George S. Patton

  War, Rip, Blood

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• I've always loved the rush you get from watching a really scary movie, but I never watch them alone. It's fun to turn out the lights and scream and clutch someone's hand and spill the popcorn all over the place and hide under each other.

  Sunny Mabrey

  Fun, Light, Hands

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• I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Thinking, Zippers, People

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• I get a lot of butterflies at auditions because I get so scared. It's scary because you've never met the people before. You have to meet them, and you have to hurry up and get to know them in five seconds. And then, you have to spill your emotions out to these strangers. It's funny.

  Elle Fanning

  Butterfly, People, Scary

  "Elle Fanning on LOW DOWN, Jazz Music, Kissing Peter Dinklage, Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT, TRUMBO, and More". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 24, 2014.

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• Sarah Palin is speaking out about the oil spill. She said, I'm not kidding, we should ask the Dutch for help with the spill because the Dutch have the world's best dikes. So let me get this straight. It is OK to cover lesbians in oil but you just can't let them get married.

  Craig Ferguson

  Oil, World, Dutch

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• Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'

  Dave Mustaine

  Brother, Sea, Land

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• Arcitc Harp seal pup populations are declining as they are commercially hunted for oil and fur and global warming causes the ice where pups are born to break up and melt. Now these sweet and adorable pups face yet another human threat: oil spills.

  Zoe Helene

  Sweet, Ice, Oil

  "Winter Wonderland: Artisan Gifts for Arctic Wildlife" by Zoe Helene, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2013.

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