97 Jarring Quotes
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Famous Jarring Quotes
Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. — Satchel Paige
When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it. — Marcus Aurelius
Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop. — Sam Cooke
The simplest things are the most startling. — American Proverbs
I've gotten bored with jazz to the point where I wouldn't mind something bad happening. Slapping hurts, but at some point it'll wake you up. I feel like jazz needs a big-ass slap. — Robert Glasper
It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping. — Milton Berle
People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life. — Sarah Hall
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. — James Joyce
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. — Edith Summerskill
It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time. — Beth Ditto
But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture. — Raymond Carver
Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing. — Maajid Nawaz
The things that stand out are often the oddities. — Pierre Salinger
Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement. — Sun Tzu
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass. — Christopher Columbus
Short Jarring Quotes
- An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
- To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. — Sylvia Plath
- There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. — Sylvia Plath
- Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not a door? — Steven Wright
- Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences. — Sylvia Plath
- Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight. — Rumi
- We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure. — Pope Francis
- I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. — Robert Bloch
- Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. — Miguel de Cervantes
- My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world. — Josephine de Beauharnais
Jar Quotes
...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars. — Dante Alighieri
If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted. — Amy Carmichael
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. — Sylvia Plath
Remember that true beauty comes from within - from within bottles, jars, compacts, and lipstick tubes — Jeffree Star
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama — Guy Steele
because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. — Sylvia Plath
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance. — Alan Bullock
I worked every day from nine when I arrived to polish my jars to six in the evening. I never lunched. — Estee Lauder
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. — Thomas Carlyle
I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise. — Richard Simmons
Bell Jar Quotes
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. — Sylvia Plath
I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir. — Sylvia Plath
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. — Sylvia Plath
But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? — Sylvia Plath
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. — Amory Lovins
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. — Sylvia Plath
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow. — Sylvia Plath
Don't let the wicked city get you down. — Sylvia Plath
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. — Sylvia Plath
Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage. — Jane Fonda
Cookie Jars Quotes
I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar — Allen West
It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place. — Jeff Miller
Look at the reactions of liberal governments to the surveillance revelations during the last years. In the United States, we've got this big debate, but we've got official paralysis - because they're the ones who had their hand caught most deeply in the cookie jar. — Edward Snowden
[On Regis Philbin:] He's like everybody's kid brother with his hand in the cookie jar and his foot in his mouth. You love him, but you can't take him anywhere. — Kathie Lee Gifford
There's a time I can recall Four years old and three feet tall Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar And both were out of reach — Hilary Weeks
Empty?! You took all the cookies!" "They were crying to get out of the jar... Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know! — Charles M. Schulz
Honey, a man can't keep his gun in a cookie jar. It just isn't done. — Janet Evanovich
People Writing About Jarring
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Sylvia Plath |
641 | 3647 |
 Satchel Paige |
58 | 613 |
 Marcus Aurelius |
770 | 19093 |
 Sam Cooke |
17 | 249 |
 American Proverbs |
195 | 308 |
 Robert Glasper |
30 | 141 |
More Jarring Quotes
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel. — John Dryden
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk. — Robert Bloch
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
During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first. — Famke Janssen
There was a young man of Herne Bay who was making some fireworks one day: but he dropped his cigar in the gunpowder jar. There was a young man of Herne Bay. — Ogden Nash
Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa, and of an aphrodisiac nature, as we were told, was presented to him in golden cups... I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some. — Bernal Diaz del Castillo
I hope my message has at least jarred you into rethinking the standard and conventional approaches to living one’s life — get a good job, work hard through endless hours, and then retire in your sixties or seventies and live out your days in your so-called golden years. But I still ask you: Why wait until your health and life energy have begun to wane? Rather than just focusing on saving up for a big pot full of money that you will most likely not be able to spend in your lifetime, live your life to the fullest now. Chase memorable life experiences, give money to your kids when they can best use it, donate money to charity while you’re still alive. That’s the way to live life. Remember: In the end, the business of life is the acquisition of memories. So what are you waiting for? — Bill Perkins
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
All the jarring, rattling and clanking, spurting and hissing of the moving train of the train dissolved in the distance into something that was half a sob and half a sigh. — R.K. Narayan
I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use. ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself. — George Washington Carver
abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape. — Agnes Repplier
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty. — Rumi
If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School. — Frank Sinatra
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. — Stephen King
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. — Omar Khayyam
A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred. — Amy Carmichael
Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar. — George Meredith
I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love Lucky Charms and Cocoa Pebbles cereal. I love my purple couch, and I love dancing. I used to have the best stuffed animals, but Samson [her dog] ate them. — Alicia Silverstone
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. — Anthony Bourdain
When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting. — Sayings
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. — Oliver Sacks
Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled. — Buddha
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