Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
As quoted in NME (2 November 1974) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_11-02-1974_-_NME.
A collection of quotes on the topic of bottle, bottling, likeness, doing.
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
As quoted in NME (2 November 1974) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_11-02-1974_-_NME.
Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter
"Idontwannabeyouanymore" · Official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tn2S3kJlyU <br class="br">Dont Smile At Me (2017)
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Source: George Carlin Reads to You: An Audio Collection Including Recent Grammy Winners Braindroppings and Napalm & Silly Putty
Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter
Tweet http://twitter.com/#!/kanyewest/status/27590685489
Elliott Smith (1969–2003) American singer-songwriter
before playing "Between the Bars" at a concert in 1996. http://www.archive.org/details/esmith2006-09-25..flacf.
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Variant: If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.”
Mark Nepo (1951) American writer
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
Lewis Carroll book Sylvie and Bruno
the Professor exclaimed with enthusiasm. "Black Light, and Nothing, look so extremely alike, at first sight, that I don't wonder he failed to distinguish them! We will now proceed to the Third Experiment."</p>
Source: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Chapter 21: The Professor's Lecture
Marquis de Sade book The 120 Days of Sodom
Le duc imita bientôt avec Bande-au-ciel la petite infamie de son ancien ami et il paria, quoique le vit fût énorme, d'avaler trois bouteilles de vin de sens froid pendant qu'on l'enculerait.
The First Day
The 120 Days of Sodom (1785)
“Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle?
He was all for love, and a little for the bottle.”
Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor
Captain Wattle and Miss Roe.
“New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.”
Heinz Guderian (1888–1954) German general
As quoted in Cavalry from Hoof to Track (2009) by Roman Jarymowycz, Ch. 16 : Cold Warhorse: Pegasus ex Machina
“My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer
On difficulties with women, as quoted in "Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84" by Dinitia Smith in The New York Times (11 April 2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html <br class="br">Various interviews
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) American theoretical physicist and professor of physics
"Atomic Weapons and American Policy", Foreign Affairs (July 1953), p. 529
“As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
“I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to the Chekhov family (April 25, 1887)
Letters
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Letter to Mr C. L. Aiken, March 19, 1930
1930s
Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. X (p. 292)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
No. 163: On his discovery of Finnish language, in a letter to W. H. Auden (1955)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (1954)
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Oui interview (1979)
“Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.”
Mary Roach book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Source: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
“Oh, Garrett, who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?”
Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle
Catherine Blake, Chapter 13, p. 316
Source: 1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)
“She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.”
David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
Anosh Irani (1974) Canadian writer
Source: The Cripple and His Talismans
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
“I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Chasing Fire
“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Hannah Hurnard book Hinds' Feet on High Places
Source: Hinds' Feet on High Places
“Yeah, tell me I’m a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That’s the way to my heart.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Nightfall
“I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
“Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Art and Lies
Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Man of My Dreams
“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover”
Clifton Fadiman (1904–1999) American editor
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 23
“Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.”
Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things
Source: The God of Small Things
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Caroline Knapp (1959–2002) American writer
Source: Drinking: A Love Story
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast
Source: A Moveable Feast
“5225. To seek a Needle in a Bottle of Hay.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Audrey Niffenegger book The Time Traveler's Wife
“Oh. Well, that was marvelous.”
Source: The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003), p. 419
“Could you exchange this lucky charm for a baby's feeding-bottle?”
Donald McGill (1875–1962) British artist
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
Bryant Gumbel (1948) American sportscaster
To Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer Erik Olson, June 1, 1995 Today. Real Video http://www.mediaresearch.org/rm/projects/99/gumbel7/segment1.ram
“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and microbiologist
The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs
Charles Dickens book Dombey and Son
When found, make a note of."
Source: Dombey and Son (1846-1848), Ch. 15
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
"An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum"
Ruins and Visions (1942)