Empty Bottles Quotes

• We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

  Robert H. Shaffer

  Teacher, Teaching, Views

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• I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

  Grace Metalious

  Bottles, Saws, Empty

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

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• Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

  Charles Simic

  Perspective, Ships, Bottles

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• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

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• My dad has a weird hobby; he collects empty bottles... which sounds so much better than "alcoholic."

  Stewart Francis

  Dad, Drinking, Sound

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• The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

  Sigrid Undset

  Bottles, Morality, Empty

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• Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the road and thinking, "Boy, I wish I had a Coke." The loves you miss are the ones that go away when they are still warm, even hot, to the touch.

  Rick Bragg

  Love You, Passion, Boys

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.216, Vintage

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• Bad people drink bad beer. You almost never see an empty bottle of Rochefort tossed onto the side of the road.

  Dave Cook

  Beer, People, Bottles

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• I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.

  Suzanne Collins

  Self, People, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.183, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Suicide, Self Harm

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.79, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.

  Emo Philips

  Family, Brother, Home

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• Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way that indicated he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage entirely so that he could tell Blue that he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage so that she could tell him well done with your carbon footprint and all that jazz. Blue said, "Better recycle that bottle.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Coffee, Blue, Carbon Footprint

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

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• He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and beautiful. Like a fallen angel. She moved to stand in front of him and pointed the pistol directly at his heart. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," he murmured, and then he opened his extraordinary eyes. "It's always unwise to shoot the man you're in love with.

  Anne Stuart

  Beautiful, Blessed, Eye

  Anne Stuart (2012). “The Devil's Waltz”, p.254, Harlequin

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• 2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Horse, Beer

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.

  W. H. Auden

  Dirty, Writing, Islands

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Writing"), (p. 22), 1962.

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• Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

  John Green

  Faces, Energy, South Carolina

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing

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