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• Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.

  Helen Simonson

  Passion, Tea, Wells

  Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.347, A&C Black

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• Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

  Ralph Nader

  Oil, Answers, Paper

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• The oil spill is getting bad. There is so much oil and tar now in the Gulf of Mexico, Cubans can now walk to Miami.

  David Letterman

  Oil, Mexico, Miami

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• BP CEO Tony Hayward said recently, 'No one wants this thing over more than I do. I'd like my life back.' Tony, I'm so sorry you had your summer disrupted. I'd buy you a drink, but you'd probably spill that too and make me clean it up.

  Craig Ferguson

  Summer, Sorry, Want

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• Today, President Obama finally met with BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, but the meeting was only scheduled 20 minutes. Call me crazy, but I think it should take more time to discuss an oil spill than it does to get your oil checked.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Crazy, Thinking, Oil

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• Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to spill over, or break.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Happiness, Men, Glasses

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• This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

  Emily Giffin

  Glasses, Half, Empty

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan

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• The only time I was really surprised was the reaction to the [shoot dedicated to the] BP oil [spill in 2010]. I didn't expect it at all. It was for the August issue, perhaps one of the less relevant months, but there was so much buzz. It was picked up all over the American television, but I defended my position. I don't understand those that say that a magazine such as Vogue should not talk about these things.

  Franca Sozzani

  August, Oil, Issues

  Source: wwd.com

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• However, in my fiction, I want to give an even further warning of where we're heading. And so, in "Heartland," you have people selling off their topsoil, and an underwater oil spill that has lasted over three-hundred days.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Oil, People, Giving

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red.

  Erin Hunter

  Running, Lakes, Blood

  Erin Hunter (2009). “Warriors: The New Prophecy #4: Starlight”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Love, whether it's friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the cup is full. The liquid hangs there almost above the rim, hangs there on surface tension alone and you know that one more drop and it will spill over.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lasts, Cups, Liquid

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.113, Penguin

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• There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think real novelists do that. But I make a distinction between prose that's very efficiency-minded (like, the minimum I can get away with), versus loosening the screws and letting the words spill out beautifully and so on.

  George Saunders

  Real, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because national borders are eroding, because of the growth of non-state actors. It's a different kind of a world. We are tied down by a tiny little country - Iraq. It's amazing, given the disparity in military economic strength. It's a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries, and there are new kinds of actors and we're feeling our way as to how to deal with them.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Country, Military, Iraq

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Feelings, Height

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake to think it’s the small things we control and not the large, it’s the other way around! We can’t stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back for something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident – or causes one. But we can assert the largest order, the large human values daily, the only order large enough to see.

  Anne Michaels

  Running, Mistake, Wine

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• The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill.

  Van Jones

  Dirty, Wind Farms, Leaving

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Aqueducts, Stories, Flow

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• Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.

  Debbie Macomber

  Gratitude, Attitude, Generosity

  Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.

  Steven Morrissey

  Dream, Lonely, Tears

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• Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?

  Craig Ferguson

  Cameras, Sometimes, Pathology

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• Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace edged into the doorway, sizing up Magnus with his eyes. "Even if one of them spills a drink on my new shoes?" "Even then.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, New Shoes, Trying

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

  Nick Cave

  Sorrow, Tears, World

  Song: Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?

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• Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

  Salman Rushdie

  World, Possibility, Finite

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave me a melting feeling, a warm light sensation in my head, and I felt like safety itself had arrived in that glass, poured out from the bottle and allowed to spill out between us.

  Caroline Knapp

  Wine, Glasses, Light

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.39, Dial Press

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• I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it's painful gall-stones, it's gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Mirrors, Blood

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