A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

- Christopher Buckley

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

- Grace Metalious

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

- Gene Tierney

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

- Fred Allen

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

- Frank Sinatra

The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.

- Edward Hirsch

A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle.

- Don Scardino

I've tried, in 'Bloodmoney,' to tell a story that gets at the crazy relationship between the ISI and the CIA, these absolutely fascinating, often mutually destructive two scorpions in a bottle kind of relationship that they have.

- David Ignatius

The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

- Carlo Ratti

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

- Clifton Fadiman

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'

- Christina Aguilera

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

- Charles Bronson

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

- Charles Baudelaire

Every pint bottle should contain a quart.

- Boyle Roche

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

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

- Angela Carter

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

- Andrea Dworkin

I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.

- Andie MacDowell

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

- Alan Sugar