Best empty & bottles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.”

World Life Whole Empty Whole World Damn Bottles

“With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.”

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Book:The White Tiger

Source: The White Tiger

“And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!”

Ifs Courses Found House Taken Heard Week Empty Bottles Dozen Brandy

Book:Remembered Death

Source: Remembered Death

“The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.”

Morality Empty Remains Code Bottles Rejected Perfume Empty Bottles

Author:Sigrid Undset

“I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle”

Half Drink Empty Glasses Bottles Half Empty

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.”

“A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?”

Needs Children Flower Gratitude Empty Notes Boxes Bunch Golden Apples Bags Bottles Pot Diamond Scent Vans Jam Pebbles Homemade Bouquets Seedlings

Author:Pam Brown

“A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!”

Writing Ideas Use Brain Leader Stupid Speech Ethics Empty Prepared Honour Bottles Write Your Own Nehru Good Ethics

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What do Jake 'The Snake' Roberts and a beer bottle have in common? They're both empty from the neck up!”

Common Empty Beer Necks Bottles Snakes Jake

Author:Jerry Lawler

“The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?”

“I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.”

Thinking Knows Two Home Lasts Sleep Family Brother Lessons My Family Empty My Brother Bottles Stomach Pills Couches Love My Family I Love My Family Paramedics Sleeping Pills Empty Bottles

Author:Emo Philips

“Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.”

Love Is Fine Empty Wine Bottles Headache Love Is Like Wine And Love Wine Love

Author:Julio Iglesias

“If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.”

Ifs Way Writing House Empty My Time Bottles Gave Up Obsessive Bombing Soda Skyscraper Yarn

Author:Eden Robinson

“I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.”

Film Courses Scene Empty Nervous Daily Life Bottles Typical Stairs Breakdown Nervous Breakdown Sherry

Author:Emma Thompson

“And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What kind of green? Green like my bottles? Green like a grasshopper? Green like a cucumber, lettuce, or green like the sky is just before it breaks loose to storm? Well, night black is the same way. May as well be a rainbow.”

Thinking Way Wells Kind May Stills Moving Night Black Dark Talking Break Five Sky Color Six Empty Green Fingers Storm Just One Bottles Rainbow Lettuce Cucumbers Grasshoppers Pitch Black

Author:Toni Morrison

“Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.”

Empty Tables Glasses Meals Pleasant Bottles Ritual Clutter Aftermath Lingering Crumbs Gogol

Book:The Namesake: A Novel

Source: The Namesake: A Novel

“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”

Soul Turns Father Cities Wife Sadness Baby Empty Heavy Bottles Dropping Peasants Reservoirs Vodka Cupboards Strangling

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.”

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Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.”

Source: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

“Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the road and thinking, "Boy, I wish I had a Coke." The loves you miss are the ones that go away when they are still warm, even hot, to the touch.”

Thinking Stills Passion Wish Sides Boys Love You Missing Empty Hot Warm Going Away Bottles Coke Empty Bottles

Book:All Over but the Shoutin'

Source: All Over but the Shoutin'

“The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.”

Ifs Soul Mountain Models Empty Blind Medicine Paint Painter Observation Impulse Encounters Bottles Shelves

Book:Adventure of painting

Source: Adventure of painting

“He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and beautiful. Like a fallen angel. She moved to stand in front of him and pointed the pistol directly at his heart. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," he murmured, and then he opened his extraordinary eyes. "It's always unwise to shoot the man you're in love with.”

Source: The Devil's Waltz

“We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.”

Bigs Running Car Periods Empty Agree Bottles Scotch

Book:Big Sur (Annotated)

Source: Big Sur (Annotated)

“I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by age. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.”

Feels Made Age Bits Natural Behavior Empty Newspapers Bottles Milk Mud Clutter Cab Habitat Neatness Natural Habitats Cough Drops

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.”

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Book:Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.”

Ifs Looks Littles Long Two Fun Company Empty Okay Drinking Glasses Drunk Generosity Bottles

Book:Invisible Monsters: A Novel

Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel

“Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.”

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Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way that indicated he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage entirely so that he could tell Blue that he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage so that she could tell him well done with your carbon footprint and all that jazz. Blue said, "Better recycle that bottle.”

Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

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

People Young Views Teacher Teaching Empty Filled Emptiness Bottles Candle Volunteer Lit Empty Bottles

Author:Robert H. Shaffer

“I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.”

Inspirational Needs Kids Morning Struggle Empty Teenager Kitchen Bottles Teenage Accessories Gin Outfits Fashion Accessory

Author:Erma Bombeck

“When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.”

“My dad has a weird hobby; he collects empty bottles... which sounds so much better than "alcoholic."”

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Author:Stewart Francis

“I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.”

Made Sometimes Watches Empty Wine Notes Bottles Evaluation Bottles Of Wine

Book:A Carafe of Red

Source: A Carafe of Red

“The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.”

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Book:A World of Strangers

Source: A World of Strangers

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”

Perspective Empty Ships Bottles Lighthouse Letter In A Bottle Empty Bottles

Author:Charles Simic

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