Top 14 Quotes About Jar
#1. Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.
Charles Spurgeon
#2. I noticed Stucks was wearing - maybe ironically, possibly not - a T-shirt that read Save Gas, Fart in a Jar.
Gillian Flynn
#3. Fred Ruskin barreled through the rain down Buchanan Street in his battered Pacer, the jar his dead wife had directed him to retrieve from his nephew's coffin bouncing in the seat beside him.
Joe DeRouen
#4. Her assignment had been to write a simple Sumerian code for preserving a jar of pickled eggs. (To the programming-inclined reader, this is the magical equivalent of "HELLO WORLD.")
Sorin Suciu
#5. I've decided that I'm going to collect as many spiders in a jar as I can and then pour them all over you, William Flecter. Seeing as how it's good to face your fears.
Sharon Biggs Waller
#6. I liked peanut butter. Peanut butter never got another woman pregnant. Peanut butter never made me cry. Nobody cared if you were photographed in a club with a jar of Jif.
R.S. Grey
#7. The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.
P. J. O'Rourke
#8. Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.
Donald Lambert
#9. Only by the shuddering of the bed did Toby realize the girl was sobbing. Molly herself made no sound; it was as though her grief was trapped in a jar, her cries inaudible to anyone but her.
Tess Gerritsen
#10. A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.
Henry Ward Beecher
#11. My soft voice and demeanor were useless. In a pint jar, I carried a cremated friend, like flesh scraped from a cistern.
Henri Cole
#12. Do not heed the jar of man's warring opinions. Let God be true and every man a liar. The Bible is the Bible still. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God. You have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.
Horatius Bonar
#13. [I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.
Neil Gaiman
#14. If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.
Homer
#15. BOSS: We need something gross that also communicates easy-to-use. EMPLOYEE: Cheez Whiz? BOSS: Brilliant. Cheez Whiz it is. Now get back to working on names for that jar of fluffy marshmallow insides.
Jim Gaffigan
#16. I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can't help but glow.
Kellie Elmore
#17. 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.
Maggie Q
#18. like the small votives they lit in church.) Sometimes the houses were deserted, even partially destroyed. Sometimes it seemed the families must still be upstairs. There were old bicycles in some, or baby carriages. A steamer trunk, once, filled with broken dishes. A jar of pickled cauliflower.
Alice McDermott
#19. 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.
Erma Bombeck
#20. They were joined by Julia, who kept her sunglasses on and ate only marmite, straight from the jar, which if anything seemed like further proof of her declining humanity.
Lev Grossman
#21. Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.
Edward Young
#22. At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#23. Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
Pablo Neruda
#24. To Jar Jar Binks. I'm sorry everyone in the universe seems to hate you.
J.M. Darhower
#25. You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.
Tricia Goyer
#26. 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.
William McDonough
#27. Still may syllables jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!
Ben Jonson
#28. I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar. But they taste good. Most of all I like the packages themselves. You were right, Jack. This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.
Don DeLillo
#29. The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
Harlan Coben
#31. I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.
Laini Taylor
#32. His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64
Alice Walker
#33. Then Mrs. confiscated my shiny glitter jar. Confiscate is the school word for yanked it right out of my hand.
Barbara Park
#34. 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.
George Eliot
#35. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#36. Erland turned his eyes to the window and the figure that stood before it with arms crossed, staring into the anamorphic slurry of colors caught together in the burying of the sun as night fell like a jar of blue-black paint.
Luke Taylor
#37. What's left of what your body was - once the girl with bare shoulder blades , giggling, once the girl galloping an imaginary horse, once the girl sleeping in her sequined red dress - was now ash in a jar. Grains of bone. But then, I knew it wasn't you anymore. You were somewhere more.
Ava Dellaira
#39. And looking at one single label on a jar, he felt himself gone round the calendar to the private day this summer when he had looked at the circling world and found himself at its center.
The word on the jar was RELISH.
And he was glad that he had decided to live.
Ray Bradbury
#40. The ladies in the beer commercials were hot, no doubt, but when a goddess wants to make an effort, no one else can even open the jar of mustard, let alone cut it.
Kevin Hearne
#41. 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.
Sylvia Plath
#42. Empty?! You took all the cookies!"
"They were crying to get out of the jar ... Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know!
Charles M. Schulz
#43. Meg cut up some celery and mixed it in with the tuna. After a moment's hesitation she opened the refrigerator door and brought out a jar of little sweet pickles.-Though why I'm doing it for her I don't know, she thought, as she cut them up.-I don't trust her one bit.
Madeleine L'Engle
#44. My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
Padma Lakshmi
#45. The next time you come to the Cookie Jar, the coffee's on me. You could probably bottle that stuff of yours and sell it for rat poison.
Joanne Fluke
#46. The only way to make beauty ugly is to show it's crazy. Like twisting the top off a jar of something wonderful to eat, the moment he's hit by the terrible smell of it gone bad, even the hungriest person will drop the jar in the trash without a second thought.
Jonathan Carroll
#47. Probing the corners of the room like a caged cat, fly caught in a jar, fart in an elevator.
Dennis Vickers
#48. His blue eyes twinkled like actual glitter. Like he went to Michael's, got a jar of it, and then poured it in his irises. "Ohhh,
Max Monroe
#49. We love neither God nor our neighbor as we should. Our love in spiritual things is "too defective, in worldly things too excessive, there is a jar in both." We love the world too much; God too little; our neighbor not at all, or for our own ends.
Robert Burton
#50. A friend ... sort of. Ren watches me like I'm a cookie jar he wouldn't mind being caught with his hands in.
Andrea Cremer
#51. I wonder how many loose buttons there are in this world, just rolling around in a jar without a mate or a blouse to go on. No purpose. Just siting there unnoticed. Forgotten.
Sarah Ockler
#52. Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
Jane Fonda
#53. Mr. Poe meant well, but a jar of mustard probably also means well and would do a better job of keeping the Baudelaires out of danger.
Lemony Snicket
#54. I'll put you in a jar on my shelf for a cold, rainy day when I need you the most.
Karen Quan
#55. So no, I did not rinse out the damned pickle jar." He flopped on the other bed. "And since I'll be going to hell for breaking into a church and stealing holy water, I'll be sure to mention your name when I get there." He paused. "You're probably on Satan's wish-list anyway.
Suzanne Johnson
#56. I often eat Skippy's Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I don't shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open.
Willie Geist
#57. Connor bangs his head back sharply against the wall, hoping to jar loose the bad thoughts clinging to his brain. This is not a good place to be alone with your thoughts. Perhaps that's why Hayden feels compelled to talk.
Neal Shusterman
#58. the soul is on the edge of what's visible, like a clear glass marble in a jar of water,
David Mitchell
#59. Yes..." I gasped, shocked that I was admitting it. Brianna had caught me with my todger in the cookie jar and I just couldn't deny it, I was overwhelmed with excitement and pure animalistic arousal.
John Key
#60. Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
Zig Ziglar
#61. Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
Flannery O'Connor
#62. The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats
Vicki Alayne Bradley
#63. Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists 'tomato' as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.
Giada De Laurentiis
#64. 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.
Steve Cropper
#65. The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
Seamus Heaney
#66. Note to the ladies, for whom peanut butter seems to be like crack: the tablespoon scoop should be no more than a small mound, not half the jar balanced on a spoon.
Timothy Ferriss
#67. People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy ... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Stephen King
#68. And then comes the realization. That although a house was taken from you, you can still build a home in a wine jar.
Camilo Garzon
#69. Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron
#70. He's not the brightest pickle in the crayon jar.
Me
#71. We either put out 6 different flavors of jam or 24 different flavors of jam and we looked at 2 things. First, in what case were people more likely to buy a jar of jam?
Sheena Iyengar
#72. I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart
Madonna Ciccone
#73. I took the jar and placed it on my windowsill, leaving it where it should have stayed a long time ago.
Kiera Cass
#74. I'm worried he's going to ... do something crazy."
"He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy."
Claire closed her eyes. "Okay. I think he wants to put my brain in a jar and wire it into the machine."
Dead silence.
Rachel Caine
#75. Would you walk to the edge of the ocean
Just to fill my jar with sand
Just in case I get the notion
To let it run through my hand
The Band Perrry
#76. You shrunk and bottled in a glass jar, you're a portable saint. Knowing you is like knowing Jesus. There are billions of us and only one of you so I don't expect much from you personally. There are no answers to my life. But I'm touched by you and fulfilled just by believing.
Chris Kraus
#77. 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.
Carrie Fisher
#78. The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
Billy Joel
#79. all gods were like that: the knife behind the smile, the drop of poison in the honey jar. They liked to bind you to them, make you dance on razorblades.
Liz Williams
#80. The room didn't contain a large jar as Landen had suggested, but rather a human-size sarcophagus made out of Tupperware to ensure freshness.
Jasper Fforde
#81. No one touches her," Ash said, his voice coated with frost. "Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles and put them in a jar. Understand?
Julie Kagawa
#82. That's the thing about angry words - once you spill them out, they are like a broken jar of honey on the floor, all sticky and mess. And no matter how hard you try to clean it up, you can always feel that sticky part of the tile" -Cordie
Shelley Moore Thomas
#83. Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.
Matthew Arnold
#84. She was as hard to pin down as the last pickle in the pickle jar.
Anthony Marra
#85. And who do you think you are, running around leaving scars, collecting your jar of hearts, tearing love apart, who do you think you are?
Christina Perri
#86. George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.
Peter Mayhew
#87. If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.
Atul Gawande
#88. I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar
Allen West
#89. An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.
Charles E. Burchfield
#90. We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.
Rumi
#92. Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not a door?
Steven Wright
#93. I drank a jar of coffee
And I took some of these
Mark E. Smith
#94. God's beauty is better by far than anything that comes out of a jar..
Nanette L. Avery
#95. People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.
Suze Orman
#96. I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world.
Taylor Wilson
#97. In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
Herman Melville
#98. People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Robert Bloch
#99. What level of personal are we talking about?" she mumbled. "I don't mind discussing my periods in graphic detail, but I'm probably going to stay quiet about the jar of fingernail clippings I carry with me at all times.
Darcy Coates
#100. At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.
Mohammed Dib
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