Bottles quotes
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"ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME And down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin' at all."
"I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that."
"I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk."
"Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle."
"Stacking shelves in a supermarket. The reason I didn't like it is because I'm very clumsy. We had a floor polisher you'd push up and down the aisles, and klutz me would always knock the bottles over in the drinks aisle. Unsurprisingly I got fired."
"In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle."
"Lately I been drinking like there's a message in a bottle"
"I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple"
"One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere."
"I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up this drawl, the squint and a way of moving meant to suggest that I wasn’t looking for trouble but would just as soon throw a bottle at your head as not. I practiced in front of a mirror."
"I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been."
"When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back."
"In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence."
"I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death."
"Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila , maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it."
"When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp?"
"My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out."
"We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!"
"The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine."
"To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control."
