The Genie Quotes

#1. Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

Griffith Edwards

#2. Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.

Ice Cube

#3. The point about the whole subject is this: Once you open the top on this thing, the genie won't get back in the bottle.

Mark Frost

#4. The steel kettle shone, a slow furl of steam at its spout, vaguely suggestive of genie and lamp. Oh, grant me a wish, just the one.

John Banville

#5. The stupid and dishonest accountants allowed the genie of totally inappropriate accounting to descend on derivatives books. And once this has happened - people get status, etc. - it's impossible to get it back into the bottle.

Charlie Munger

#6. The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.

Richard Wilbur

#7. If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively,

Christine Lagarde

#8. Next to the first Henry and Meg, Henry had written, "Promise?"
Well, that genie's out of the bottle and there's no stuffing her back in.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#9. I'll never forget Jonah's face. A light poured out of him and became the spirit of the room, like a genie released from a bottle after centuries of darkness.

Natalie Standiford

#10. Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

Sidney Sheldon

#11. She lifted the book to her nose and inhaled the scent lingering in its cardboard bones: a hint of rosewater and Lysol that instantly genie-summoned the Blue Moon Lodge. It was Winnemucca condensed, this book, the only thing she owned that could still predictably take her from here to there.

Armistead Maupin

#12. Do we want a master, or shall we have a genie whose command is our wish? This is the tension of desire - and the test of revelation.

Jen Pollock Michel

#13. So you do know!" I shouted. My phone lay there like a genie's bottle, inanimate and yet containing the ability to grant me wishes and knowledge. "Girl, spill before I come over and dye your hair a natural color.

Atom Yang

#14. Love is a fiction, a fable, an ode spun by poets and drunks, a fantastical tale told across one thousand and one nights, it is the genie in the bottle, it is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it's the lie designed to seduce you.

Lauren Blakely

#15. Reo Malone - "You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

Maer Wilson

#16. The flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories

Tim Brookes

#17. Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.

Abbey Clancy

#18. Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

William Allen White

#19. New Rule: You don't have to put the cap back on the bottled water after every sip. It's water, not a genie.

Bill Maher

#20. Love is like a magic ... appears even in the middle of the desert like a genie at the SANDS OF PASSION

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#21. I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.

Anne Sexton

#22. Do you think we would become a better civilization if we all took acid? TR: Oh, absolutely. I think that LSD is the genie in the bottle of the world.

Mara Altman

#23. I can see how James or Greene might agree with this point of view: the former finds that the ugly old lamp no longer produces a genie when rubbed and the latter realizes he has nothing left to wish for.

Laura Miller

#24. Your water does not refresh me, said the thirsty genie. Yet it is the coolest well in all the Diar Bekir.

Stendhal

#25. You don't look like a genie."
"Palazzo pants and sequined vests don't cut it in the United States.

Elizabeth Langston

#26. Are you some sort of pervert?"
The grey eyes turn from terrified to indignant. "Do you mind keeping your voice down, I have a perfectly innocent explanation." He unravels himself and straightens up, towering over us like some freshly escaped genie.

Susan Lodge

#27. Love is like life; when you stop to think about it and analyse the parts that make it, the genie escapes from the bottle

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#28. The Holy Spirit's power cannot be harnessed. His power cannot be used to accomplish anything other than the Father's will. He is not a candy dispenser. He is not a vending machine. He is not a genie waiting for someone to rub His lamp the right way. He is holy God.

Charles Stanley

#29. If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.

Larry Constantine

#30. To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control ...

T. S. Eliot

#31. I think we both like Crazy Anna a little more than regular Anna. It's like magic - while I was trying on the bathing suit last month, it rubbed against my butt and unleashed the Absolute Best Summer Ever Bikini Genie, granting all my wishes.

Sarah Ockler

#32. Why is the TV on, and why aren't you on the way to naked?"...
"My head and the rest of me" - he drew her attention to his erection - "heard sex. No putting that genie back in the lamp...

Mary J. Williams

#33. Agrabah is yours."
"No," Jasmine said, looking out at the sea of guild leaders, and the thieves, and the genie, and all the people of her city.
"Agrabah is ours.

Liz Braswell

#34. education and money. I go to church with the kids for the same reason Genie and I play our grandchildren classical music and litter the floors and chairs all over our home with open art books. Jack, age three, eats his lunch with a big Goya book propped in front of him asking for the

Frank Schaeffer

#35. Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

John Major

#36. What do you get when you cross an egomaniacal fairy godmother, an arrogant genie, and a couple of wandering plagiarists whose idea of cultural preservation is stealing the stories of unsuspecting villagers and passing them off as their own?

Kate SeRine

#37. I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow.

Hilary Rosen

#38. As ever, you are wiser than I, you old genie. May the Stars grant that you are always here to look after me."
"Are you taking up religion in your old age, then, Captain?"
"Hardly. Habit, my love, habit.

Catherynne M Valente

#39. Consider the millions who are buying those modern Aladdin's lamps called e-readers. These magical devices, ever more beautiful and nimble in design, have only to be lightly rubbed for the genie of literature to be summoned.

Steve Wasserman

#40. Some men may be unready
for the coming of the genie
who grants three wishes.

Toba Beta

#41. True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie

Puzant Kevork Thomajan

#42. He lived in two modes, the apparent and the veiled, and in two realms, the opera and the sewer, and he shuttled between them like a genie.

Walter Kirn

#43. The absolutely awesome incredible power of belief is the genie in your life.

Eldon Taylor

#44. If I had all the money in the world, I'd be like, "Great, let's just keep doing it!" I, unfortunately, have not won the lottery or found the magic genie lamp.

Zachary Levi

#45. Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#46. I fell in love with scent when I was a small boy.
I was intrigued by how each bottle on my mother's dressing table
gave such a different scent-each like a genie waving its spell,
transporting us away from the mundane to worlds full of fantasy.

Roja Dove

#47. I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.

Sidney Sheldon

#48. Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb

Valerie Plame