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• Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.

  Dave Barry

  Beer, Computer, Hardware

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, Ballantine Books

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• To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against encroachments of power. This then is a right of utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Blood, Office, Giving

  Alexander Hamilton, Julius Goebel, Joseph Henry Smith (1969). “The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary”, p.831, Columbia University Press

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• In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

  Forrest Gander

  Book, Prose Poetry, Sea

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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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• I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, Writing, Years

  "The Salmon of Doubt". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

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• That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Blood, Should, Eternal

  Vittorio Alfieri, Charles Lloyd (1876). “Philip”

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• We can invade everyone from Grenada to Afghanistan, but if anyone spills a drop of our blood, it's terrorism.

  Paul Christopher

  Blood, Terrorism, Grenada

  Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.156, Penguin

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• The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited all the corners of the globe, but my most unforgettable trout all lived close to home. In fact, when I take out my pouch of trout memories and spill them all on the table, it seems that the smaller ones shine the brightest.

  William G. Tapply

  Memories, Home, Lakes

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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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• If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Fire, Burning, Tongue

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “Something to Tell You: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• That film Memento creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I get more creeped out than scared, and spill popcorn all over the place.

  Brendan Sexton III

  Popcorn, Scared, Film

  "AGENT ORANGE: Orange phones it in with Brendan Sexton III". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 31, 2001.

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• Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

  Kobo Abe

  People, Police, Fiction

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• O' beautiful for spacious skies
  But now those skies are threatening
  They're beating plowshares into swords
  For this tired old man that we elected king
  Armchair warriors often fail
  And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
  The lawyers clean up all details
  Since daddy had to lie
  But I know a place where we can go
  And wash away this sin
  We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by
  And the tall grass wave in the wind
  Just lay your head back on the ground
  And let your hair spill all around me
  Offer up your best defence
  But this is the end
  This is the end of the innocence

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Song, Kings

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• Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard.

  Snoop Dogg

  Nice, Might, Scared

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 7, 2011.

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• I'm really passionate about the song Sky Spills Over. It was fun creating it in the studio and I've been overwhelmed at the response it gets when we perform it live every night. My son Ryan is a really talented filmmaker so I always enjoy working with him on a project. But what made this project even more special was that 3 of my own grandkids were in the video. This video was a lot of fun to make. I hope people enjoy it!

  Michael W. Smith

  Song, Fun, Night

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• No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord

  Samuel Rutherford

  Inspiring, Music, Christian

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.88

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• [T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Girl, Broken, House

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.194, Ballantine Books

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• The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.

  Robert Benchley

  Family, Country, Character

  Robert Benchley (1922). “Love Conquers All”

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• To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  New Year, Work, Reading

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• Actors are inherently self-centered. We're trained to focus on who I am. What do I want? Who is in my way? How do I get this? That's how we're trained. Unfortunately, that sometimes spills over into real life. But it's all very subjective. You just try to portray someone beyond the surface, the different layers.

  Bryan Cranston

  Real, Self, Who I Am

  "Why the Dad from Malcolm in the Middle Knows So Much About Meth". Interview with Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. March 4, 2009.

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• Now, I know Obama was trying to take the long view, but talking about solar energy in the middle of the oil spill is like watching your house engulfed in flames and saying, 'We really should change the curtains.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Views, Flames, Talking

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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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• 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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• Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

  Jack London

  Life, Hands, Rooms

  Jack London (2016). “The Sea-Wolf (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

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• My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the experience of working at an exciting art school also spills over into my studio work. I believe most artists are adept at juggling multiple responsibilities - whether it's work, teaching, caring for family members or attending to relationships - with their studio commitment.

  Stephen Beal

  Art, Teaching, Believe

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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