Bowls Quotes - Page 9

• People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

  Muriel Barbery

  Life, Stars, Children

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.15, Gallic Books

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• The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn’t such a damned bowl of eye candy." - Cat re: Bones

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Eye, Wish

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• We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.

  Jodi Picoult

  Queens, Men, People

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• It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.

  Michael Grant

  Black, Giants, Fitting

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• Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past. What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Past, Years

  Mary Oliver (2008). “Red Bird: Poems”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.

  Ray Bradbury

  Animal, Laughing, Facts

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• The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

  Mo Willems

  Chocolate, Hot, Pudding

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• I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself.

  Chris Hardwick

  Fun, Expectations, Way

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• I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Flower, Water

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• So this is the young man who has intentions toward my little girl." Bobby shifted in his seat and crossed his legs. "It is not fun on this side of the table, is it, Robert?" Uncle Eddie huffed, and Kat had to remember that once upon a time her mother had been a dark-haired girl in that kitchen, and her dad had been the stray she'd brought home. She watched the two men looking at Hale as if they'd never before laid eyes on him. "He's better-looking than the last vagabond I had to take in," Eddie said, standing and carrying empty bowls to the sink. "I'll give him that.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Mother, Uncles

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• Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.

  Annie Dillard

  Keys, Sea, Water

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.92, Canongate Books

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• There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

  Jeff Olson

  League, Why Not, Bowling

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.230, Greenleaf Book Group

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• Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.

  David Henry

  Stars, Food, Heart

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• Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.

  Kathy Freston

  Breakfast, Brown, Enjoy

  Kathy Freston (2012). “The Lean: A Revolutionary (and Simple!) 30-Day Plan for Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• What's wrong?" I didn't say a word." Something's up. What is it?" Nothing." His head turned, gaze going to mine. "Yeah?" Yes." A snort and he returned to his bowl.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Yeah, Mines

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.305, Hachette UK

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• never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

  Jodi Picoult

  Men, Guy, Band

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.464, Simon and Schuster

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• Living life with a smile is like throwing yeast into a bowl of flour, adding warm water and waiting for the flour to rise. It multiplies may times over.

  John Templeton

  Smile, Live Life, Water

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.18, Templeton Foundation Press

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• Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

  T. S. Eliot

  Rooms, Lilac

  T. S. Eliot, “Portrait Of A Lady”

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• Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas. In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Special, Hot, Stories

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For all your talk, you don't know the first thing about love." Tears spilled over her lashes and rolled down her cheeks. She slipped the chain that held his Super Bowl ring over her head and pressed it into his palm. "I love you, Bobby Tom, and I'll love you till the day I die. But I've never been for sale. I was a free offering all along.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Love You, Offering, Tears

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• No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.

  Lauren Oliver

  Ice Cream, People, Guy

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

  Rumi

  Heart, Silence, House

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• She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's like the perfect kitchen." I fought not to smile. This was the delirium. She'd fade in and out of it before the profound exhaustion dragged her down into unconsciousness. If you see someone spouting nonsense to themselves in an alleyway in Tarbean, odds are they're not actually crazy, just a sweet-eater deranged by too much denner. "A kitchen?" "Yes," she said. "Everything matches and the sugar bowl is right where it should be.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Crazy, Odds

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• Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice Cream. I give you lots of kisses, And I give lots of hugs, But I never give you sandwiches With bugs In.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Nice, Kissing

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.187, A&C Black

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• One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Children, Men, Goldfish

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Seduce Me at Sunrise”, p.78, Macmillan

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