Pockets Quotes
824 Pockets quotes by 609 unique authors
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When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.
— Don Rickles
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get…
— Will Rogers
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I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
— Adam Sandler
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I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She…
— Maurice Sendak
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Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each…
— Patti Smith
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The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
— Lysander Spooner
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to…
— Gertrude Stein
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in…
— James Surowiecki
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You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about…
— Matt Taibbi
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Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we…
— Al-Waleed bin Talal
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Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
— Lee Trevino
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The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room.…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
— Booker T. Washington
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Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season…
— George Washington
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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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