Jar Quotes
183 quotes by 153 authors
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God…
— Lord Byron
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a…
— Louis Agassiz
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The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall…
— Natalie Goldberg
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People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a…
— Robert Bloch
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One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate.…
— Freeman Dyson
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In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand…
— Philip Yancey
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as…
— Amory Lovins
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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
— Horace
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Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.
— Rumi
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In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
— Herman Melville
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In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of…
— Adam Sandler
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I have a jar at home, and I put pennies in it whenever I curse. The other day I spilled the jar. I owe it…
— Demetri Martin
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George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.
— Peter Mayhew
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I'm going to move on and do other things. My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.
— Ahmed Best
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I must have been born under an unlucky star. You know I have filled out entry blanks for every single drawing in the supermarket for…
— Louise Lasser
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Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of…
— Maggie O'Farrell
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You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons and screws and…
— Roz Chast
Who Wrote These Jar Quotes
153 authors contributed a total of 183 Jar Quotes, led by these top contributors: