Jars Quotes
184 quotes by 152 authors
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Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings…
— Shel Silverstein
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Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in…
— Laura Esquivel
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I stroked Eric's hair, tucking some behind his ear. His eyes on mine were intent, and I knew he was waiting for me to speak.…
— Charlaine Harris
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Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?' Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning…
— Terry Pratchett
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice
— Matsuo Basho
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Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
— Flannery O'Connor
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When I was a little girl, I used to try and bring sunshine to my mother. I felt so bad that she had never really…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and…
— Fannie Flagg
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I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
— Pablo Neruda
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Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.
— Wallace Stegner
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I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.
— Sylvia Plath
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I picked up Pandora's jar. The spirit of Hope fluttered inside, trying to warm the cold container. "Hestia," I said, "I give this to you…
— Rick Riordan
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But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling…
— Sylvia Plath
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How Superheroes Make Money: - Spider-Man knits sweaters. - Superman screw the lids on pickle jars. - Iron Man, as you would suspect, just irons.
— Jim Benton
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Hope your new boots are fast Bella. One little jar isn't going to keep a hungry bear occupied for long." "I only have to be…
— Stephenie Meyer
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One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods…
— George R. R. Martin
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Want me to warm up the sauce?†“Do we do that? I mean, it’s in a jar, right? Can’t you just dump it over the…
— Rachel Caine
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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to…
— Ned Vizzini
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Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing…
— Ernest Hemingway
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