We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.
If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.
Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.
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.
Empty?! You took all the cookies!" "They were crying to get out of the jar. . . Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know!
It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. . . . The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.
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.
Sometimes at drive-thrus I go into Winnie the Pooh and ask for a jar of honey.
My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.
Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?
Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.
A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.
The first thing we looked at, in what case were people more likely to be attracted to the jar or jam, so in which case are people more likely to stop when they saw the display of jams and what we found was that more people stopped when there were 24 jams.
my face I don't mind it, Because I'm behind it-- 'Tis the folks in the front that I jar.
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.
One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.