Pockets famous quotes

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’
-- A. Scott Berg

#Years #Ideas #Pockets

I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
-- Adam Sandler

#Vegas #Las Vegas #Pockets

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso

#Afterlife #Gold #Pockets

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.
-- Adrian McKinty

#Book #Past #Pockets

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#Creativity #Interesting #Pockets

Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them. Gadgets fill the pockets, they dangle from neck and belt. The overflow fills the auto-trunk and also the trailer. Each item of outdoor equipment grows lighter and often better, but the aggregate poundage becomes tonnage.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Self #Pockets #Gadgets

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Paris #Pockets #Four

Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!
-- Alfred Molina

#Ipods #Pockets #Essentials

When Hale's hand disappeared inside his tuxedo jacket, Macey wasn't exactly sure what he'd find inside the pocket. It could have been another phone or a breath mint. Really, nothing would have surprised her. Well nothing except... "Is that an earbud?" she whispered. He smiled. "Are you on comms?" "Shhh," he told her softly.
-- Ally Carter

#Hands #Phones #Pockets

How'd you get in here?" She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. “I can pick locks. Looking for this?” she asked, holding up his wallet. “Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.
-- Ally Carter

#Hands #Eyebrows #Pockets

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Hands #Pockets #Arms

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Business #Men #Pockets

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.
-- Andrew Bacevich

#Knowing #Pockets #Pay

[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor.
-- Annie Oakley

#Boys #Hands #Pockets

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
-- Anthony Doerr

#Silence #Pockets #Language

An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Wall #Pockets #Four

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.
-- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

#Dust #Pockets

I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.
-- Arno Hintjens

#Father #Broken #Pockets

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Graduation #Hands #Pockets

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
-- Ashley Montagu

#Swag #Cities #Pockets

Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.
-- Ava Gardner

#Money #Long #Pockets

If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.
-- Baba Hari Dass

#Men #Pockets #Spirituality

We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.
-- Barack Obama

#Country #Years #Pockets

I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
-- Ben Hogan

#Hate #Golf #Pockets

a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.
-- Betty MacDonald

#Pockets #Bitterness #Resentment

Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.
-- Bevo Howard

#Pockets #Hips

The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies
-- Big L

#Crazy #Book #Pockets

Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.
-- Bill Barich

#Horse #Pockets #Loser

If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.
-- Bill Haywood

#Hands #Class #Pockets

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.
-- Bill Janklow

#Pockets #Dollars #Machines

Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time.
-- Bill Murray

#Hands #Pockets #Able

Do you want to trust your life in God's pocket or keep it in your own?
-- Billy Graham

#Pockets #Want

You guard your hopes and pocket your dreams, you'd trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene.
-- Billy Squier

#Dream #Reality #Pockets

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?
-- Brad Meltzer

#Lust #Pockets #Underwear

If Russell Wilson gets outside of the protection and can scramble around, New England loses. If the Patriots keep him in the pocket, New England wins.
-- Brian Billick

#Winning #Nfl #Pockets

She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.
-- Brian Selznick

#Book #Doors #Pockets

I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket.
-- Brittany Murphy

#Hands #Pockets #Freak

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
-- Byron Dorgan

#Hands #Pockets #Doe

The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.
-- Camille Paglia

#Buddhism #Pockets #Followers

Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!
-- Camryn Manheim

#Venice #Pockets #Crafts

I believe in the Yves Saint Laurent woman who either has her hands in the pockets of her pantsuit or is holding her lover's hand. She doesn't need a bag.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Believe #Hands #Pockets

Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.
-- Carl Safina

#Ocean #Blue #Pockets

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
-- Charles Babbage

#Exercise #Pockets #Salary

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Baby #Pockets #Hello

Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Women #Pockets #Forget

Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.
-- Charles Churchill

#Art #Feet #Pockets

I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.
-- Charles Dickens

#Lying #Night #Pockets

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.
-- Charles Kennedy

#Feet #Pockets #Cards

Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout history, the claim that God is on your side has been used to justify any action, no matter how violent or destructive.
-- Charles Kimball

#Thinking #Your Side #Pockets

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
-- Charles Lamb

#Pockets #Painful #Deny

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
-- Charles Lamb

#Money #Liberty #Pockets

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
-- Charles Macklin

#Law #Justice #Pockets

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
-- Charles Peguy

#Writing #Tears #Pockets

Feel for others - in your pocket
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Pockets #Feels

Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.
-- Charlotte Arnold

#School #People #Pockets

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket
-- Chinmayananda Saraswati

#Keys #Pockets

Music is split up now into little pockets.
-- Chris Martin

#Pockets #Splits #Littles

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.
-- Christian Bale

#Father #Men #Pockets

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Heart #Pockets #Riches

Never take your eyes off the ball - even when it's in the referee's pocket.
-- Christy Ring

#Eye #Pockets #Balls

Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Law #Justice #Pockets

Lucas seemed to have realized our prediciment at the same moment I had. "I haven't got my credit card with me. Kinda left in a hurry. We just spent the only cash I had in my pocket." Too-bright signs from the few open stores made mee squint. "We'd have been better off with a slingshot and Oreos.
-- Claudia Gray

#Pockets #Oreos #Cards

Make us laugh and you can pick all pockets.
-- Clemence Dane

#Humor #Laughing #Pockets

If I don't have s*** in my pocket now, you'll have s*** in your pants later.
-- Cody Lundin

#Survival #Pockets #Pants

Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand.
-- Craig Coleman

#Land #League #Pockets

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Love #Pockets #Want

If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.
-- Dan Rather

#Gun #Hands #Pockets

They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
-- Dan Rather

#Sides #Pockets #May

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]
-- Dani Shapiro

#Sadness #Pockets #Stones

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.
-- Daniel Handler

#Secret #Pockets #Dictionary

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!
-- Daniel Pennac

#Important #Pockets #Enough

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.
-- Daniela Pestova

#Writing #Pockets #Bumps

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish
-- Darrell Royal

#Fall #Thinking #Pockets

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
-- Dave Chappelle

#People #Mind #Pockets

I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.
-- David Adams Richards

#Thug #Pockets

If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.
-- Debra Messing

#Keys #Pockets #Cash

Russell [Wilson] plays really well in the pocket [and] outside the pocket. He’s just a play waiting to happen.
-- Deion Sanders

#Play #Waiting #Pockets

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.
-- Demetri Martin

#Funny #Song #Pockets

I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.
-- Dennis Crowley

#Notebook #Writing #Pockets

I never boned a honey that I didn't like, I never saw a mile that I couldn't hike. I never had a spliff to make me choke, I never had a pocket that was broke.
-- Dres

#Rap #Hip Hop #Pockets

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.
-- Ebenezer Elliott

#Pockets #Idlers #Division

That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers
-- Ed Markey

#Hands #President #Pockets

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
-- Ed Markey

#Oil #People #Pockets

Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!
-- Eddie Vedder

#Pockets #Framed #Should

A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.
-- Elizabeth Aston

#Men #Pockets #Depth

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Friendship #Inspiration #Pockets

You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Design #Pockets #Interior Design

The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.
-- Etgar Keret

#Pockets #Facts #Moments

She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Forever #Pockets #Safe

When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Football #Pockets #Breaking Down

Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers.
-- Franklin Raines

#Thinking #Pockets #Able

Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.
-- Franklin Raines

#Thinking #Pockets #Would Be

Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.
-- Franz Halder

#Pockets #Pistols

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
-- Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#Pockets #Disease #Moral

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Time #Pockets #Hundred

Never try to get into society, so-called. Those who try seldom get in, and if they do edge through the portals they always feel clammy and unworthy when under the scrutiny of the elect. Sit outside and appear indifferent, and after a while they may sent for you. If not, it will be money in your pocket.
-- George Ade

#Trying #Pockets #May

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
-- George Eliot

#Pockets #Use #Holes

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.
-- George Stephenson

#Pockets #Patents #Rail

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.
-- George Washington

#Hands #Revolution #Pockets

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.
-- Georges Bernanos

#Pockets #World #Busy