“Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”
“If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.”
“I sell Ziploc bags. They’re not empty—they’re full of hope.”
“An empty bag of chips would make a great sleeping bag, if it were larger. Or if I were smaller, thinner, tastier, and with 33% less fat per serving.”
“Like tired dogs they stand there,because they use up all their strengthin remaining upright in one's memory.”
“Uncle Pumblechook: a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to.”