My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.
The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!
I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.
The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.
One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.
I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.