Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Mikes

Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles

Contrary to their claim of no regulation on bottled water, there is a common-sense permit process that doesn't harm businesses.

Rick Pitino

The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.

We are waiting for county officials to determine how to proceed (with the bottled water program). We still plan to help cover costs.

Peter Russell

We see a lot of cardboard, glass, and plastic bottles in commercial garbage bins that should be recycled. We're more than happy to work with businesses to get them started with recycling and we hope they'll cooperate.

We were prepared for mass casualties and had 60,000 bottles of water brought in overnight.

We might not be popping the champagne bottles yet, ... but we're chilling them already.

There's no question it's a good thing. Quite frankly, if the people coming here have the money to buy a $50 bottle of pinot noir, they should have a place like that to stay if they choose.

Mick McCarthy

I started on Shrove Tuesday and then by Ash Wednesday something had happened and I'd had a bottle of beer.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.

Ari Fleischer

Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root.

Sarah Hyland

I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.

Henry Petroski

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

LL Cool

Wish they could take my longevity and bottle it,

David Foster Wallace

She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

Alexandre Dumas

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems . . . are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped—what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again,

Karl Malone

We were totally self-contained with our own food and everything. We didn't want to take even one bottle of water away from these people. When we told them we were doing this for free, they looked at us like we were crazy or something.

Alan Sugar

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

James Russell

Most people are convinced that bottled water, juice and things like Gatorade are the healthier way to go. Pepsi Bottling has done a dynamite job of getting that message out and distributing their products.

Dan Fogelman

I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.

I would like to see the program expanded to include bottles and cans. Paper recycling is great for offices, but truly doesn't meet all of this campus' needs.

Nicholas Sparks

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE had to be told in third person to be effective.

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

Valentine's Day gift giving can put a great deal of stress on singles. Many people feel like the gift signifies something about the relationship and where it's going. Take the pressure off this year and go for something creative, such as a favorite new DVD, a great bottle of wine or a seductive dinner by candlelight.

Wine is imported to China in containers. Many 'vineyards' just bottle wine that they have imported.

We can put out the call for bottled water and have it sent to them the most direct route possible. There will be no red tape, no waiting, no delays.

Whether your breast or bottle feed, it's important for you to hold eye contact and to understand what you're committing to.

Darius Kasparaitis

You always see Mark as a hockey player. It's going to be odd to see him without the skates on. To me, Mark looks more like a GM, he always has this solid look. I don't see Mark throwing bottles and sticks on the ice.

We don't suspect there are any tainted bottles out in the marketplace. But we want to be sensitive to customers' concerns about this issue.

We ended up getting bottled up pretty good because we had an extra player who wasn't supposed to be there. It was a mistake.

God puts the right people together. We want clothes in decent shape and suitcases and backpacks to carry stuff around in, canned goods, bottled water. Our goal is to leave Sunday for Jackson, Mississippi...We chose that because no emergency workers have showed up, but we're hoping for three vans full.

Garrett Gomez

He's got phenomenal speed. If he can keep that bottled up and enjoy himself, he's ten times better.