Bags Quotes - Page 30

• It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Greatness, Doors, Numbers

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• I dumped out the bag and found what had been inside was a bunched-up police uniform, complete with the vest. "Where did you get this?" Boo asked. "It's Callum's," he said. "What's he wearing?" "At the moment, not much of anything. Put it on." I noticed Book perk up a bit at this piece of information.

  Maureen Johnson

  Book, Police, Pieces

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• It's us," Stephen said. "Oh, thank God," said a voice. Callum emerged from behind the Dumpster. Even with all that was going on, it was hard not to take notice of this: he wore only his underpants and his socks and shoes. ...I don't think I hid my staring very well either. "Go ahead and change," Stephen said, handing me the bag. "I'll go and get the car." "Please be quick," Callum added. "This is not as fun as it appears.

  Maureen Johnson

  Fun, Thinking, Shoes

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• I’ve missed you,” he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the next room, the guests complain about the sudden increase in temperature. Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Air, Bird, Fans

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• How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.

  Rachel Caine

  Book, Cupcakes, Ifs

  Rachel Caine (2007). “Midnight Alley: The Morganville Vampires”, p.84, Penguin

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• Adrian sifted through the bags and pulled out a slice of coconut cream. "If I were a dragon, this is what I'd go for." I didn't argue, mainly because that statement had no logical argument.

  Richelle Mead

  Dragons, Logical Arguments, Coconuts

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.152, Penguin

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• i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms

  Charles Bukowski

  Dark, Moon, Air

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• I kind of missed the whole running into each other thing. Provided a lot of excitement." "I don't miss that," I admitted, bending over and rummaging through my bag for my notebook. "That was really embarrassing." "It shouldn't have been." "Easy for you to say. You're the one who got plowed. I was doing the plowing." Cam's mouth opened. Oh my God, did I really just say that? I had.

  J. Lynn

  Notebook, Running, Missing

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• I'm beginning to think cookies is a code word for something else." "Maybe it is." He tugged on my bag again as he took a confident step back, forcing me down another step. "And just think about it. If cookie was a code word, whatever it symbolizes, it's been in your mouth, sweetheart.

  J. Lynn

  Thinking, Cookies, Mouths

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Everything okay?" Cam asked, placing his hand on my lower back. Concern pinched his brows. "Yes." I dropped my cell back into my bag. Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster.

  J. Lynn

  Cells, Hands, Perfect

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• My bag hit the floor, spilling overpriced books and pens across the shiny floor. My pens! My glorious pens rolled everywhere.

  J. Lynn

  Book, Spilling, Glorious

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)”, p.1, HarperCollins UK

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• We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Grief, Flames, Hands

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• Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero, and one look at him should establish the vanity angle." "Nash!" I really shouldn't have been surprised by the dig. But I was. "What?" He raised one brow at me in challenge. "It's okay to call me jealous, but not to call him vain?" "Awareness of one's obvious advantages doesn't imply vanity," Tod insisted calmly. Nash turned on him. "Does it imply narcissism?" Tod huffed. "This coming from the guy who owns more hair products than his girlfriend.

  Rachel Vincent

  Girlfriend, Brother, Hero

  Rachel Vincent (2014). “Soul Screamers: Volume 4”, p.33, Harlequin

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• His eyes held hers. “Because I knew, ten seconds after walking into this office and meeting you, that we had this in the bag.

  Julie James

  Eye, Office, Meetings

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.32, Penguin

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• And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Writing, Years

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• I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes and more bags of them in the attic. Is accumulated baggage what makes people get old? If so, they need to clean out their fecking attics, send the stuff to consignment shops and remember how to walk around naked like kids, little bellies sticking out, always ready for a good laugh.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Regret, Kids, Clothes

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.306, Delacorte Press

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• Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight. I was safe. I was warm. I was home.

  Ally Carter

  Home, Years, Safe

  Ally Carter (2013). “Gallagher Girls: United We Spy”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here.” “What? Like a plastic bag?” “I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.

  Gayle Forman

  Moving, Thinking, Wind

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• New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we’re Americans, and that means once we open the bag, there’s no stopping us until we’re licking stray bits of powdered cheese off the carpet. So stop trying to give us nutritional information based on a fraction of the package. It assumes a talent for two things that we’re really not capable of: restraint and math.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Math, Two

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.196, Penguin

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• You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.

  Dave Eggers

  Hate, Feelings, Done

  Dave Eggers (2013). “The Circle”, p.113, Vintage

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• Oh, obviously,” Reyna said. “Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag.” “True,” Annabeth agreed.

  Rick Riordan

  Doubt, Annabeth, Paper

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.428, Penguin UK

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• A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

  George Orwell

  Food, Eating, Humans

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.62, Jester House Publishing

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• If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Democracy, Politics

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.82, Routledge

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• What's the use of worrying?
  It never was worth while,
  So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
  And smile, smile, smile.

  George Henry Powell

  Positive, Smile, Cheer Up

  "Pack Up Your Troubles" (song) (1915)

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• I saw this vision with a beautiful plastic bag in Kensington High Street, ... and then you didn't see the face because he had this blond thing [indicating a sweeping fringe across his face] that was, you know, too much!

  Manolo Blahnik

  Beautiful, Vision, Too Much

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