#bottle

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#bottled #essence #labels #names #our

It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in the yard Pa was sorting, counting, the empty bottles he would sell back: the bottles going clink clink as Pa stuck them in the sack. The fowls were fluffing in the dust and sun: that crook-neck white pullet Mumma said she would hit on the head if only she had the courage to; but she hadn't. ↗

— Patrick White

#children #fathers #fowls #mothers #recycling

He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#description #wine #wine-bottle #death

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cork #i #inward #knocks #must

You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills. ↗

— Paula Deen

#afford #bills #bottle #cook #everybody

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic? ↗

— Betty Ford

#behaved #bottle #could #finished #how

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#breakdown #course #daily #daily life #empty

If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me. ↗

— Jayson Williams

#beer #bottle #career #changed #definitely

I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance. ↗

— John Higgins

#dance #grew #had #i #i wish

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#champagne #drinking #first #franklin #franklin roosevelt