Bottled Quotes

1. "Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love."
Author: Anne Lamott

2. "Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root."
Author: Ari Fleischer

3. "Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity."
Author: Arundhati Roy

4. "People can be so emotionally unintelligent. When I ask them how they're doing they just make brusque comments like "I'm good, thanks." After years of trying to get cashiers to talk about their feelings and having to deal with the bottled-up aggression of the customers behind me, I've lost all faith in humanity's ability to connect with each other at the checkout counter."
Author: Bauvard

5. "When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books."
Author: Betsy Lerner

6. "Living in this city, you developed a certain relationship with violence and news of violence: you expected it, dreaded it, and then when it happened, you worked hard to look away from it, because there was nothing you could do about it - not even grieve, because you knew that it would happen again and maybe in a way that was worse than before. Grieving is possible only when you know you have come to an end, when there is nothing more to follow. This city was full of bottled-up grief."
Author: Bilal Tanweer

7. "New Rule: You don't have to put the cap back on the bottled water after every sip. It's water, not a genie."
Author: Bill Maher

8. "They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with our names on it. Cool."
Author: Brooke Smith

9. "I feel strange, like there's an unformed, unfinished, sad little emotion bottled up in me, and I need to fuck it away."
Author: Carolyn Crane

10. "Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew."
Author: Charles Dickens

11. "He fumed like a bottled storm."
Author: Charlotte Brontë

12. "You shrunk and bottled in a glass jar, you're a portable saint. Knowing you is like knowing Jesus. There are billions of us and only one of you so I don't expect much from you personally. There are no answers to my life. But I'm touched by you and fulfilled just by believing."
Author: Chris Kraus

13. "Are you okay?"I waved my hand at him dismissively. He crouched down, touched my cheek, looked me up and down, and then smirked."That was a pygmy marmoset, by the way. Just in case you were wondering."I wheezed. "Thank you, oh Walking Monkey Dictionary."He laughed and got out bottled water for both of us, then handed me an energy bar."Aren't you going to eat one?"He put a hand on his chest and scoffed. "What, me? Eat an energy bar when the jungle is full of delicious monkeys? No thanks. I'm not hungry."I nibbled my energy bar in silence and checked the Golden Fruit to make sure it wasn't bruised. It was still safely wrapped up in my quilt.Between bites, I said, "You know, all in all, we made it out of the city fairly unscathed."His mouth fell open. "Unscathed? Kelsey, I have monkey bites all over my back and in other places that I don't even want to think about!""I said fairly."He grunted at me."
Author: Colleen Houck

14. "I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment . . . ' This was what came of violating the sentimentality quota. Everything he kept bottled inside him came out. He shut his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. 'At the moment,' he muttered numbly, 'I may be coming a bit unraveled."
Author: Courtney Milan

15. "Only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again." ? Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca"
Author: Daphne Du Maurier

16. "If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again."
Author: Daphne Du Maurier

17. "Music isn't much different now from what it was when we hit the dance floor. This means something. We found something universal. We bottled that desire, then released it into the airwaves. The sounds hit your body, and you move.We are in those particles that send you. We are in that music.Dance for us, Tariq.Feel us there in your freedom."
Author: David Levithan

18. "There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up."
Author: Dick Gregory

19. "I searched his face and smiled as a soft grin formed along hislips as he said, "I truly don't deserve you, but I'm grateful every single daythat you're mine. I know it's frustrating at times, and I appreciate that eventhrough all the bullshit you still stick around. I didn't realize how much mybottled-up problems bothered you. I promise to work harder at it. Just knowthat I am trying."
Author: E.L. Montes

20. "The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry."
Author: Ed Begley Jr.

21. "We carried bottled water and day packs and cameras, except for Fred, who said he didn't believe in taking photographs; he planned to store his memories in his head, an idea I found incomprehensibly radical. My impulse to record was almost on par with my impulse to travel"
Author: Elisabeth Eaves

22. "I do have friends, but they don't know me, only someone I've created to take my place. Someone sculpted from ice. I keep the melted me bottled up inside. Where no one can touch her, until, unbidden, she comes pouring out."
Author: Ellen Hopkins

23. "I've tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance."
Author: French Montana

24. "Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ's blood, Christ's gospel, Christ's church, and Christ's expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays ‘bottled up', confined to the historical skins of Palestine."
Author: Gary North

25. "He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled."
Author: Gene Fowler

26. "George Stephenson, with a sagacity of mind in advance of the science of his day, answered, when asked what was the ultimate cause of motion of his locomotive engine, ‘that it went by the bottled-up rays of the sun."
Author: George Stephenson

27. "I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila."
Author: Hugh Laurie

28. "What'll it be?""I'll have a beer. Bottled. Not light.""Careful there, Ty," Jenna said as she popped the top off and slid the bottle to him. "Don't want to put on too much weight, or you'll have trouble holding your stick."He grabbed the bottle and held it to his lips. "Never had any complaints about my abilities with my stick so far."Jenna arched a brow. "And you're here alone? With that charm? Shocking."
Author: Jaci Burton

29. "A voice issued from the mirror..."The characters read thus: 'Suldrun, sweet Suldrun, leave this room before harm arrives upon you!'" Suldrun looked about her. "What would harm me?""Let the bottled imps clamp your hair or your fingers and you will learn the meaning of harm."The two heads spoke at the same time: "What a wicked remark! We are as faithful as doves." "Oh! It is bitter to be maligned, when we cannot seek redress for the wrong!"
Author: Jack Vance

30. "My father is the most genial Midwestern guy imaginable, but for him, disaster lurks around every corner—financial ruin, squandered health, pyramid schemes, airbags failing to deploy—so he tends to use fear as a parenting tool to try to goad his daughters into being more prepared.When he retired, he reached new levels of preparedness, so his car contained bottled water, hand wipes, a roadside emergency kit with flares, books on tape, a coin dispenser, and two hand towels to use as makeshift bibs so he and my mother could drive and eat without making a mess."
Author: Jancee Dunn

31. "If I were an alcoholic, I'd work at a wine farm, where grape booze grows on trees, bottled and ready to chug."
Author: Jarod Kintz

32. "Your everyday supermarket now carries roughly 40,000 items - twice as many as a decade ago. There are so many products, so many brands and sub-species of those brands, that no consumer is safe from the bombardment of choice overload.A huge variety of product offering doesn't aid consumers. It is insanity. From the vast array of athletic shoes to bagels to portable CD players to bottled water, there quickly becomes a point at which mega-choices, like mega-information, do not serve the consumer; they abuse him."
Author: Jeff Davidson

33. "There was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside."
Author: Jodi Picoult

34. "Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number."
Author: Jodi Picoult

35. "Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty's mother had for herself, if all mothers had them, bottled up beneath their mother exteriors."
Author: Karen Brown

36. "There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes."
Author: Kenneth Grahame

37. "Something's different," Carlos continued. "Tonight you came in with no scowling or growling. Why thechange?"Robby shrugged one shoulder. "I'm trying to convince you I'm no' crazy. If I kept doing the same thing when itwasna working, would that no' be crazy?""Good point." Carlos rinsed the bowl and placed it in the dishwasher. "So you're trying a new strategy tonight."Robby removed the bottled blood from the microwave and filled a glass. "Tonight I saw an angel."Carlos's eyes widened. "And you're still trying to convince me you're not crazy?"
Author: Kerrelyn Sparks

38. "...simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.... A moderately gifted person has to keep his or her gifts all bottled up until, in a manner of speaking, he or she gets drunk at a wedding and tap-dances on the coffee table like Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers. We have a name for him or her. We call him or her an "exhibitionist." How do we reward such an exhibitionist? We say to him or her the next morning, "Wow! Were you ever drunk last night!"
Author: Kurt Vonnegut

39. "That goes for old wounds, too, you know. I really wish we'd had the chance to talk before this," he says, cracking the window so the smoke can escape. "There's a Longfellow quote I have stuck on my bulletin board at the church office- 'There is no grief like the grief that does not speak'- and it's true. I've found that keeping pain inside doesn't give it a chance to heal, but bringing it out into the light, holding it right there in your hands and trusting that you're strong enough to make it through, not hating the pain, not loving it, just seeing it for what it really is can change how you go on from there. Time alone doesn't heal emotional wounds, Sayre, and you don't want to live the rest of your life bottled up with anger and guilt and bitterness. That's how people self-destruct."
Author: Laura Wiess

40. "But there's more. When I was on my way to the event today, Carolyn texted me and told me that Steve and Eve got married over break. Six months after he broke up with me, and after he kept telling me he didn't see marriage inhis future! And did I tell you that he broke up with me at the school, during the Fitness Fun-a-Thon fundraising eventwe worked at?" Her face grew reflective. "I was handing out bottled water when he asked me to go behind the hydration station so he could talk to me privately. The whole time, Eve kept staring at us from the finish line of the three-legged race.She knew I was getting dumped before I did."
Author: Linda Morris

41. "In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,a yam of a woman of butter and brass,"
Author: Marge Piercy

42. "I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much."
Author: Matt Dillon

43. "He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over."
Author: Pete Wentz

44. "He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full of pretty people who acted like total freaks. I blame the local water supply. Which was why I drank bottled water."
Author: Rachel Vincent

45. "For I was hungry, while you had all you needed. I was thirsty, but you drank bottled water. I was a stranger, and you wanted me deported. I needed clothes, but you needed more clothes. I was sick, and you pointed out the behaviors that led to my sickness. I was in prison, and you said I was getting what I deserved. (RESV - Richard E. Stearns Version)"
Author: Richard Stearns

46. "Wine is bottled poetry."
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

47. "Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn't sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced like a cheetah runs with the grace of the first creation. I mean, that first week. On one of those days God created Fred Astaire. Saturday maybe, since that was the day for the pictures. When you s Fred you felt better about everything. He was a cure. He was bottled in the films and all around the earth, from Castlebar to Cairo, he healed the halt and the blind. That's the gospel truth. St. Fred. Fred the Redeemer."
Author: Sebastian Barry

48. "Even for those who dislike champagne, myself among them, there are two champagnes one can't refuse: Dom Perignon and the even superior Cristal, which is bottled in a natural-colored glass that displays its pale blaze, a chilled fire of such prickly dryness that, swallowed, seems not to have been swallowed at all, but instead to have turned to vapors on the tongue and burned there to one damp sweet ash."
Author: Truman Capote

49. "As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy."
Author: William Clay Ford Jr.

50. "Do you know what pains me the mostabout you? Do you?Having all of thatbottled up insideof your soulall of those dark secretsthat you will notlet escape your heart.Love is the only thing that will heal you. Let me LOVE you. Please."
Author: Zuky Rose Leigh

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