"The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst."
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"I'm not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can't be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles."
"My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle."
"After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne."
"I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. She said, "It's free with purchase." I asked her if anyone bought anything toda"
"Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters."
"Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it."
"I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle."
"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
"sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them."
"She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof."
"If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle."
"Me not showing any emotion is not the best for me. I've tried that. It kind of bottles up, and then at some point explodes."
"It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)"
"The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn."
"You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle."
"To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne."
"He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles."
"Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday."
"Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse."