Bluebottle Quotes

#1. I opened my mouth, mad enough to spit, and said loudly, "I don't eat iceberg lettuce!" Really? I asked myself. That's what you're going to throw down with? "I don't care what you eat, just don't be pickin' in there!

Piper Kerman

#2. All laws work for our good; therefore, we should know and observe them.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don't often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we're likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.

Binnie Kirshenbaum

#4. 717! You are behaving like a demented bluebottle - stop that!

Laline Paull

#5. No genuine Irishman could relax in comfort and feel at home in a pub unless he was sitting in deep gloom on a hard seat with a very sad expression on his face, listening to the drone of bluebottle squadrons carrying out a raid on the yellow cheese sandwich.

Flann O'Brien

#6. In Brekkukot, words were too precious to use
because they meant something; our conversation was like pristine money before inflation; experience was too profound to be capable of expression; only the bluebottle was free.

Halldor Laxness

#7. ...the grass actually IS greener on the other side, but it's only because of the bodies buried there.

Robert Ford

#8. Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.

Cecelia Ahern

#9. Your hair is a tangled mess,he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane.

Kim Harrison

#10. Better readers are better thinkers.

James Patterson

#11. Under a low sun, pursued by fish and mounted by crows and veiled in a loud swarm of bluebottle flies, the body comes down the river like a deadfall stripped clean.

Jon Clinch

#12. RVM Thoughts for Today -
People are so cautious about Life that they forget to enjoy it. They may follow all the rule of the world but in the Process, they forget to Live.

R.v.m.

#13. Come and sit down girl, for days you've been flying around there like a bluebottle.

Catherine Cookson

#14. And yet our existence is so organized that every personal enjoyment is purchased at the price of human suffering contrary to human nature.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.

Laura Prepon

#16. The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention.

Erri De Luca

#17. Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, God forbid that it should ever befall me!

Plutarch