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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• 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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• But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. “You're green. Are you sick?” “It's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,” I say. “It's meant to be pretty,” whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, “I think you'd be pretty in any color.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fashion, Thinking, Color

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• I would have been here sooner but Lysander held me prisoner in our cloud," Bianka said with a grin. "He wouldn't relent until Sabin gave the ok. Which I still don't understand and will continue to punish him for until he spills. Secrets or guts, I don't care which.

  Gena Showalter

  Clouds, Secret, Care

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.149, HQN Books

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• Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.

  William Golding

  Cutting, Pigs, Blood

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.56, Penguin

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• Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to spill, I’d rather spill it than let it lie. If my mistress grows absent-minded and leaves a ball of yarn about, I’ll bat it between my paws, and unravel it. Because it’s fun. Because it’s what cats do best.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Fun, Lying, Cat

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.110, Feiwel & Friends

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• Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity.

  Tim O'Brien

  Spiritual, Hate, War

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not Exactly True That skin hate is dead. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. But when you live afraid of your neighbor, the monster you should most walk in terror of thrives. It starts as a little thing, small enough to burrow into your pores, take up excruciating residence in the dark recesses of your brain. Its name is paranoia, and it spreads like an oil spill, there in the shadows, chokes your humanity. Threatens your soul.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hate, Dark, Oil

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants run together, his voice rising and falling melodically: “Ni hen piao liang.” “What did you say?” Tessa was curious. “I said your hair is coming undone — here,” he said, and reached out and tucked an escaping curl back behind her ear. Tessa felt the blood spill hot up into her face, and was glad for the dimness of the carriage. “You have to be careful with it,” he said, taking his hand back, slowly, his fingers lingering against her cheek.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Fall, Hair

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• You know how they say the grass is always greener on the other side? It is greener, because you're not there. And if you go you'll trample it and leave dirty footprints and probably spill something poisonous.

  Ekaterina Sedia

  Dirty, Sides, Footprint

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• Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp canyons together, plunge down the waterfalls together. It is the same when a man and woman love one another. It is not always a pleasant thing, but when it happens, a man has little to say about it. Women, like streams, can be smooth one minute and make a man feel like he’s swimming through white water the next.

  Catherine Anderson

  Swimming, Men, Two

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• Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, World, Firsts

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• I believe we will see a biofuels resurgence. While gas prices skyrocket and we continue to wage wars for oil, while spills, fracking, tar sands and the oil madness of our empire continue, people are waking up and realizing that you can't be against petroleum and against fuels that come from nature.

  Josh Tickell

  War, Believe, Oil

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• It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, "I think you'd be pretty in any color." The tiniest of smiles forms on Octavia's lips. "Thank you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Color, Tears

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• [Kenny] leaned back against the counter and studied the other man. “So Dex, how’s come you’re still alive to tell the tale?” Dexter wiped up a small coffee spill, the sat on the stool next to Torie. “All I’m prepared to say is that your sister and I slept together, and, since I compromised her, I intend to marry her.” Torie dropped her forehead and banged it three times against the countertop. “You are such a geek.” “Doesn’t sound like she’s too enthusiastic about it,” Kenny said.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Coffee, Men, Together

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• Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?

  Robin McKinley

  Wall, Next, Babe

  Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.115, Penguin

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• Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Orange

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• Children of the Nephilim," Magnus said. "Well, well. I don't recall inviting you." Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. "I have an invitation. These"--she indicated the rest of the group with a grand wave of her arm--"are my friends." Magnus plucked the invitation out of her hand and looked at it with fastidious distaste. "I must have been drunk," he said. He threw the door open. "Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace looked at him, "Even if one of them spills something on my new shoes?" "Even then." - 219

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Hands, Shoes

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• Ani told them all...telling more than needed telling, the stories clarifying and unifying themselves in her mind as she let them spill out of her mouth.

  Shannon Hale

  Mind, Stories, Mouths

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• The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?

  Veronica Roth

  Lying, Secret, Desire

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