Bags Quotes - Page 10

• In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Race, Trying, Use

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• There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believe in a lot of boxing. You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring with another fighter, it's a different story. Punches are coming at you, there's physical contact, muscle against muscle.

  Emanuel Steward

  Believe, Thinking, Oxygen

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• In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

  Roberto Unger

  Views, Political, Vision

  "The ideas interview: Roberto Unger". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2006.

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• One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

  Carol Vorderman

  Sunday, Smell, Vegetables

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Kids, Thinking

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• At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Grandchildren, Years

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• I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  School, Thinking, Giving

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• Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

  Dick Cavett

  Trying, Sleazes, Mccain

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.173, Macmillan

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• Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

  Larry Niven

  Book, Add, Four

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• It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.

  L'Wren Scott

  Dream, Tricks, Wanted

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
  For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

  "A Memorable Fancy". "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, www.bartleby.com. 1793.

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• People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

  Jimmy Wales

  Voice, People

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• In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.

  Del Howison

  Halloween, Topics, Gimmicks

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• I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.

  Black Francis

  Strong, Shy, Band

  "Pixies Interview". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 6, 2009.

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• The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?

  Hal Elrod

  Success, Car, Secret

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• You rock so, you rock so, you dip so, you dip so, you skank so, you skank so, and don't be no drag! You come so, you come so, for reggae is another bag!

  Blake Lively

  Song, Rocks, Skanks

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• We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just make enough money to-to- !" Jesus said: "Sell what ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth."

  Eugenia Price

  Jesus, Race, People

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• I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.

  Charles Mathias

  Children, School, Home

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• Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cat, Matrimony

  "Essays", Book III, Chapter V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 495-500, 1922.

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• Bring a raincoat, definitely ... or at Least a little umbrella that can fit in your bag, because it always does rain.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Rain, Doe, Littles

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• Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.

  Ben Jonson

  Home, Joy, Barns

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.132

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• I'm happy to have L.A.M.B. participate in the PSP accessories show as I've always loved designing bags and accessories, It's all about creativity at the end of the day, whether you're talking about fashion, technology or music, and that's what my L.A.M.B. bags are about.

  Gwen Stefani

  Fashion, Creativity, Technology

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• There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night

  Ernest Bramah

  Suicide, Dark, Night

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• Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

  Marlene Dumas

  Drawing, Forever, Paper

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• I used to have this dream that somebody was knocking at my door. I'd say 'Who is it?' and they'd answer 'Police.' I'd open the door and they would say to me, 'Pack your bags. We realized you have no talent.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Dream, Doors, Insecurity

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