Receptacle Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity... He is just… — Rajneesh
To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs* — Thom Yorke
It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled… — Herman Melville
So let me get this straight. You find yourself in the kitchen, you see an eclair in the receptacle, and you think to yourself, 'What… — Jerry Seinfeld
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper,… — Theodore Isaac Rubin
What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is… — Walter Karp
Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup,… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy. — Neal A. Maxwell
...if anyone looks with faith at the mystical table and the Bread of Life placed on it, he sees the Person of the Word of… — Gregory Palamas
He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons. — Laozi
Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but… — Mary Wollstonecraft
But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if… — Josh Radnor
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus… — Edward Weston
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as… — Mark Hopkins
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. — E. M. Forster
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper,… — Pablo Picasso
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books… — Umberto Eco
The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] canâ€™t produce a… — Raymond Chandler

Who Wrote These Receptacle Quotes

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