Famous Quotes & Sayings

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit.

Nora Dunn

I think gun manufacturers should start being afraid. You can't open an aspirin bottle if you're a kid, but you can fire a gun at someone.

Wine is imported to China in containers. Many 'vineyards' just bottle wine that they have imported.

David Rosenberg

For the first time in 18 years, we managed to get through one of these semiannual congressional testimonies without a bottle of Advil in one hand and a Thesaurus in the other.

Jorma Kaukonen

If I could bottle that and teach it, it would be great, ... We're always springing something new on each other. We also always leave space for each other.

J. K. Rowling

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

Melanie Rawn

If I had any real idea of exactly where inspiration comes from, I'd go there, find the foolish thing, bottle it, sell it, and retire to Tuscany.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal labotomy.

I'd say there's six teams that could win it, and the only reason I say that is it's difficult to win four games in four days for the lower four teams. But any of the other six, they could catch lightning in a bottle for three days and roll through that tournament.

How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened

When an $8 or $10 bottle of white wine that is of a lighter style gets to be three, four, five years in the bottle, it starts to lose its fruitiness. It loses that crisp acidity.

Bre Pettis

I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.

Ezra Taft Benson

Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget.

Valentine's Day gift giving can put a great deal of stress on singles. Many people feel like the gift signifies something about the relationship and where it's going. Take the pressure off this year and go for something creative, such as a favorite new DVD, a great bottle of wine or a seductive dinner by candlelight.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I hate plastic bottles. Just think about it before you buy one. We pay more for a gallon of water than we do for a gallon of gas. I think people will realize that water quality standards in most municipalities are as good or better for the stuff coming out of the tap than bottled water companies. You'll save money and save the environment, too.

Ronnie Wood

The only exercise Keith does is lifting the bottle to the mouth.

Carolyn Murphy

I love physical sunblocks with zinc. When I used to surf, I'd sometimes tuck a bottle of sunscreen into my wet suit sleeve - when you're in the water having a great time, you're not thinking about running out to put on more sunblock.

Carlo Ratti

When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

Shaquille O'Neal

When we keep fighting, we're a hard team to beat. Now we just have to take that and bottle it up.

Mike Ferguson

We are excited at the prospect of doubling everyone's donation. Now, when someone gives enough to purchase one bottle of water, we'll be able to make it two bottles of water. Instead of giving one hot meal, we'll be able to make it two hot meals. The scale of what we'll be able to do as a community is gigantic.

LL Cool

Wish they could take my longevity and bottle it,

Peter Andre

It's so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.

Julia Child

The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been sitting on the grocery shelf for weeks, even months - even years.

Sarah Hyland

I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.

Henry Petroski

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.

Ari Fleischer

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.

Darren McCarty

The only thing that would have been funnier is if he picked up a bottle and took a drink of water like nothing happened.

John Newton

To carry an umbrella without any headgear places a fellow in a social no man's land-in the category of one hurrying round to the corner shop for a bottle of stout on a rainy day at the behest of a nagging landlady.

Bill Evans

The only thing different I know of is they shipped us a big shipment of bottled water; maybe, for the holiday weekend. I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of next week we're out of bottled water.