Jars Quotes
184 quotes by 151 authors
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink…
— Taylor Swift
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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
— Zig Ziglar
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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel…
— Dante Alighieri
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Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
— Robert Bloch
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To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
— Sylvia Plath
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As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy…
— Myla Goldberg
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On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass…
— Sylvia Plath
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs…
— William Shakespeare
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The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Honey, a man can't keep his gun in a cookie jar. It just isn't done.
— Janet Evanovich
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A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.
— Frank Herbert
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It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies…
— Edward Said
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All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I…
— Sylvia Plath
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Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake…
— Jeanette Winterson
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But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing…
— Jonathan Stroud
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The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
— Harlan Coben
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You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they…
— Neil Gaiman
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