Pouring Quotes

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking. (Bill Cosby)
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out. View quote
Alexander Pope
Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells. View quote
Thomas Friedman
Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water. View quote
Mark Cuban
In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn't develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that kind are tainted with ponderousness. Nietzsche wrote "with his blood,” and criticizing, or, better, experiencing him means pouring out one's lifeblood. ... It was only with my life that I wrote the Nietzsche book that I had planned. View quote
Georges Bataille
Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? View quote
Laurence Sterne
We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities. View quote
Donald Trump
In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
I've got some issues that nobody can see and all of these emotions are pouring out of me I bring them to the light for you it's only right. View quote
Kid Cudi
A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope. View quote
Steven Pressfield
So extravagant is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees,... . (John Muir)
Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves? View quote
Plutarch
This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you. View quote
Edwidge Danticat
Indolence is heaven's ally here, And energy the child of hell: The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well. View quote
Herman Melville
Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe - a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic - and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc... It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. View quote
Asger Jorn
Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve? View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Whoa," said Nico as he climbed off the bus. "Is that a climbing wall?" "Yeah," I (Percy) said. "Why is there lava pouring down it?" "Little extra challenge..." - Percy. View quote
Rick Riordan
I'm supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment's hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: "It depends on if you're drinking or pouring. View quote
Bill Cosby
I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access. (Catherine Zeta-Jones)
Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house. View quote
Wallace Shawn
You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business. View quote
Don Bluth
It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face. View quote
Graham Coxon
My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved. View quote
Honor Blackman