Jar Quotes

If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School. (Frank Sinatra)
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains blends yearning and repulsion and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. View quote
George Eliot
. . . people who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it. View quote
George Eliot
How did I know that someday - at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere - the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? View quote
Sylvia Plath
Wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. View quote
Sylvia Plath
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. View quote
Sylvia Plath
As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering. View quote
Howard Carter
If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never! View quote
Ben Jonson
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. View quote
Edward Said
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. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. View quote
Robert Bloch
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds. View quote
Zig Ziglar
How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice. View quote
Edmund White
One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid-Greek fire, one of the most dangerous magical substances in the world. Then he threw me another essential tool of demigod heroes-duct tape. View quote
Rick Riordan
People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies. View quote
Suze Orman
I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that. View quote
Maggie Q
George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar. View quote
Peter Mayhew
Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
I'm going to move on and do other things. My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks. View quote
Ahmed Best
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce. (Natalie Goldberg)
All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally. View quote
Todd English
All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air. View quote
Sylvia Plath
The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air. View quote
Sylvia Plath
I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir. View quote
Sylvia Plath