Top 77 Spill Quotes

I wasn’t as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me ‘How do you write?’ I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, ‘On a typewriter in the mornings when there’s nothing else to do.’

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

In my new IFC comedy game show, ‘Bunk,’ we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer – giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc.

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can’t just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don’t know them. It’s the same thing with a relationship.

There’s no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you’re invincible in order to do that.

I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn’t end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.

Clearly, the oil spill in the Gulf is a terrible tragedy; we lost 11 lives on the rig, and their families are suffering, and it’s also an economic tragedy for our state and ecological tragedy for the Gulf. But Sept. 11 was a different type of event: it was an intentional attack on soil.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it.

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn’t end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don’t want your employer to know you’re job hunting. You don’t spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don’t tell trade secrets to your rivals.

Fear never left me during the tour – the fear of a spill, fear for accidents, for mishaps, for the unexpected which might ruin everything at the end.

I love shopping at Zara or Topshop. I’m not going to go out and spend $1,200 on a Chloe top that I’m probably going to spill something on.

The Porter Ranch situation is the BP oil spill on land.

Even the most high-maintenance boss isn’t going to sit and watch you the whole time, making sure you’re paying attention to them, whereas with a child, it’s like, ‘Wait, what? You’re not watching me right now? Really? Then I’m going to go spill this milk.’ Even bosses from hell don’t behave like that!

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund – managed by an independent third party – to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out – spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.

Given Mr. Obama’s lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

Terrorism will spill over if you don’t speak up.

A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

Terrorism will spill over if you don’t speak up.

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.

All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it’s all memoir. Even when I’m writing about the oil spill in the Gulf, it’s all first person there.

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a ‘nether-nether-land’: things that were a little out of style but hadn’t reached the point of nostalgia.

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund – managed by an independent third party – to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it. How you see it in your head is never how you see it on the screen, so it’s almost like an out of body experience.

Clearly, the oil spill in the Gulf is a terrible tragedy; we lost 11 lives on the rig, and their families are suffering, and it’s also an economic tragedy for our state and ecological tragedy for the Gulf. But Sept. 11 was a different type of event: it was an intentional attack on soil.

As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.

People ask me why I don’t paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don’t have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It’s water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine.

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.

In the White House, Obama was driven around in an armored Cadillac limo nicknamed ‘The Beast.’ In ‘Hope Never Dies,’ he blows his book deal advance on ‘The Little Beast,’ a black Cadillac Escalade upgraded with military-grade armor and shocks so good ‘you can drive over a land mine and not spill your tea.’

The BP oil spill nearly crippled our state and did damage to our coast and communities that will take years to rectify.

Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.

Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.

I used to spill things on my t-shirts, leaving oily dark spots down the front that I would try to hide with loose-fitting dress shirts. Nowadays all I have to do is tell everyone my son did it. I skirt the ‘slob’ moniker and instead look like a dedicated father who doesn’t even have time to change.

I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We’re supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we’ll truly need it and we won’t spill a drop. It’s about being present.

You have to be prepared to take a spill.

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Confidence has not always been something I had in my whole life. But when I found it? Man you don’t have to be confident in every area of your life. Just grab something you’re confident about, and if you coast on that it’ll spill over to other areas in your life. Confidence is contagious, you know?

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn’t have bothered me.

The technology I like is the American paperback edition of ‘Freedom.’ I can spill water on it, and it would still work! So it’s pretty good technology.

We live in a culture where everyone’s opinion, view, and assessment of situations and people spill across social media, a lot of it anonymously, much of it shaped by mindless meanness and ignorance.

Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don’t spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don’t get diluted.