A genie pops out. He says "I will grant each of you three wishes."
A man finds an old lamp on the beach and gives it a rub and out pops a genie.
So while the protectionist genie is not yet out of the bottle, it is kicking and pushing against the cork, trying to escape.
But God is not your genie.
At school, the Parentes' seven-year-old's class was asked to write out what wish they would present to a genie, should a genie appear.
No matter, the genie was out of the bottle: faith depended on holy writ and the individual understanding.
Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between.
A woman rubs a lamp and out pops a genie.
Pottery Barn: If I was a genie and could give you your dream job, what and where would it be?
This self-absorbed perspective treats God as a genie who simply exists to serve you in your selfish pursuit of personal fulfillment.
The genie paused, and then sighed, "Did you want two lanes or four?"
Gajda acknowledges that “there is obviously no way to put the genie of campus litigation back in the bottle.”
The genie agrees and—poof!—the cat turns into a Brad Pitt clone.
The winged genie figures prominently in Assyrian art.
Mr Rantawi is not alone in feeling that, "like a genie, the people of Egypt have escaped from the bottle, and it is impossible to stuff them back in."
The genie gave her a big, shiny ruby.
"You can't put that genie in the bottle again," he said. "We are going to have to deal with it."
WikiLeaks has teased the genie of transparency out of a very opaque bottle, and powerful forces in America, who thrive on secrecy, are trying desperately to stuff the genie back in.
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