Bottles Quotes - Page 20

• sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sarcasm, Care, Helping

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

  David Foster Wallace

  Labels, Smooth, Proof

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• If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Broken, Reckless, Shattered

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1494, Delacorte Press

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• First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.

  Jesse Ball

  Moving, Wine, Simple

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Aug 21, 2013

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• Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Bored, Bird, Cold

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.5, Booklassic

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• Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Acid, Sometimes

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• Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. "I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.

  Gordon Korman

  Crazy, Artist, Feet

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• ..."I can always stuff you back in the bottle and shove a tampon in the top instead of a stopper, and all the other Djinn will point and laugh-

  Rachel Caine

  Laughing, Tampons, Stuff

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Chill Factor”, p.174, Allison & Busby

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• there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone. sitting up in my bed the lights out, hearing the outside sounds, lifting my cheap bottle of wine, letting the warmth of the grape enter me as I heard the rats moving about the room, I preferred them to humans. being lost, being crazy maybe is not so bad if you can be that way undisturbed. New Orleans gave me that. nobody ever called my name.

  Charles Bukowski

  Crazy, Moving, Wine

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• I have boobs!" Chloe said again, a bit too loudly— she'd already had a couple of mini bottles at the Spot. "My boobs are great, goddammit. You know that? They're fantastic! My boobs are amazing.

  Sarah Dessen

  Couple, Chloe, Fantastic

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• Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.

  Haruki Murakami

  World, Faults, Fit

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 22, 2016

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• Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

  Erin McKean

  Baby, Opportunity, Thinking

  Erin Mckean (2011). “The Secret Lives of Dresses”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• Let me get this straight. you want me to go stomping through a graveyard brandishing a bottle of booze to rouse an unrestful spirit so that I can interrogate him?" - Cat to Bones

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Want, Spirit

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• He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen on TV), and a Swiss army knife—pretty much every tool a modern demigod could want.

  Rick Riordan

  Army, Gps, Knives

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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• He was hiding from his problems in a bottle, something that went against every piece of my nature. Me? I couldnʹt let my problems win without a fight.

  Richelle Mead

  Fighting, Winning, Pieces

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• Little-boy love...the cleanest pain I've ever known. Love without desire, conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once. Where does it go? Why, in all their experiments, did the Magi never try to capture that purity in a bottle? Perhaps they couldn't.

  Christopher Moore

  Pain, Heart, Boys

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• My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Father, Trying

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• The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Heart, Thinking, Comforting

  Hannah Hurnard (2013). “Hinds Feet on High Places”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Dresden. Am I interrupting something?" "Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don't have enough for two.

  Jim Butcher

  Baby, Two, Oil

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.112, Penguin

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• That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine" Which was about all he seemed to have. He poured out two mugfuls. "Very nice," said Adrian, sipping appreciatively. "I wonder how they got the cat to sit on the bottle." "It's cheap, that's the main thing.

  Stephen Fry

  Nice, Wine, Cat

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.97, Soho Press

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• If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Filled Up, Digging A Hole

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.116, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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