Jars Quotes

An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!

If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.

Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week.

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.

We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.

Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar

Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

Empty?! You took all the cookies!" "They were crying to get out of the jar... Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know!

Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.

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 were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.

I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.

I'm going to move on and do other things. My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place.

If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

My daughter's tricycle said "Some Assembly Required." It came in a jar.

my face I don't mind it, Because I'm behind it-- 'Tis the folks in the front that I jar.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Sometimes at drive-thrus I go into Winnie the Pooh and ask for a jar of honey.

People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

The first thing we looked at, in what case were people more likely to be attracted to the jar or jam, so in which case are people more likely to stop when they saw the display of jams and what we found was that more people stopped when there were 24 jams.

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's an empty jar.

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.

When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.

What, Sheamus? Oh no, I can see him...he's pretty pale......What? oh no, he's even whiter than that. He's like a jar of mayonaisse with eyeballs and a ketchup haircut.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.