Whiskeybottle Quotes & Sayings

I didn't expect that for every shell on the coast there's a tree in the midlands. — Sara Baume

I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010. — Connie Willis

He managed to create an atmosphere of sticky sentimentality that disgusted me. — Elizabeth Peters

You can never say all the tricks have been done. Someone always shows you something you didn't know. Every year you think, 'Gee, I didn't think you could do that'. — Landon Curt Noll

The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. — Sarah Dessen

Historically, and since, 1520, eighteen Treaties have been concluded between the Persian State and its western neighbours regarding its relations therewith including the question of borders. On all occasions, the Persian State chose the opportunity to violate the said Treaties whether by word or deed. — Saddam Hussein

Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood. — Will Christopher Baer

He waved away the whiskeybottle with a smile. In this tall room, the cracked plaster sootstreaked with the shapes of laths beneath, this barrenness, this fellowship of the doomed. Where life pulsed obscenely fecund. In the drift of voices and the laughter and the reek of stale beer the Sunday loneliness seeped away.
Aint that right Suttree?
What's that?
About there bein caves all in under the city.
That's right.
What all's down there in em?
Blind slime. As above, so it is below. Suttree shrugged.
Nothing that I know of, he said. They're just some caves. — Cormac McCarthy

I take care of myself. I work out every day. I eat healthy. But I like to have fun too. — Victoria Beckham

And yes, when he kisses you, the rest of the world disappears and your brain shuts off and all you can feel are his lips and nothing else matters. — Jess Rothenberg

I don't really look for a script and go, 'I need to do a thriller, so I'm going to do this.' I just read scripts and look for the best possible story. — Alex Pettyfer

Our indigenous herbalists say to pay attention when plants come to you; they're bringing you something you need to learn. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Walking on water is better than drowning. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We are prone to ignore or to condemn that which we do not clearly understand; — Anna Harriette Leonowens