Pockets Quotes
824 quotes by 625 authors
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
— Ida B. Wells
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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
— Emil Zatopek
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Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked…
— Regina Brett
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
— Victor Hugo
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You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in…
— George Carlin
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There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him.…
— Edward Abbey
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I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There…
— Virginia Woolf
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Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up…
— Eoin Colfer
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Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had. Warren Lasher Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano Charles Deats or Keats Alfonse Tuck it in your pocket.…
— Lorrie Moore
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When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age,…
— Mark Rothko
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He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.
— Jim Davis
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket…
— Jim Butcher
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If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.
— Dan Rather
Who Wrote These Pockets Quotes
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