Bags Quotes - Page 35

• There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

  Jessica Ennis

  Mind, Saws, Looks

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

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• Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'

  Emily Giffin

  Husband, Shoes, Laughing

  "Book Corner: Emily Giffin's Latest Novel: Where We Belong". Interview with Kristin Buettner, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Buy a nickel bag, smoke a little lye, get high tonight, get high tonight.

  Busta Rhymes

  Alcohol, Drug, Tonight

  Song: Get High Tonight, Album: When Disaster Strikes..., 1997

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• Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Couple, Men, Keys

  "Coming into Los Angeles" (song) (1969)

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• Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

  Garrison Keillor

  Trust, Paper, Littles

  "The Times Book of Quotations". Book by HarperCollins, 2000.

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• Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?

  Ray Davies

  Low Self Esteem, Use, Punching

  Song: A Little Bit of Abuse, Album: Give the People What They Want

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• My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

  Ray Davies

  Girlfriend, Art, Media

  Song: State of Confusion

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• Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

  Paul McCartney

  Talking, President, Politics

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• Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!

  Guy Fieri

  Kids, Joy, Parent

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• Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.

  Manny Farber

  Home, Giving, Way

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.600, Library of America

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• I prefer to leave a little room in my bag to grab goodies when I'm travelling, but otherwise you need one good pair of shoes that can be worn day or night, a pair of black jeans, and a nice dress.

  Dree Hemingway

  Nice, Night, Jeans

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• Filming is long - you get very tired, and your skin breaks out and you get lumps and bumps. It's easier if you're allowed to have bags under your eyes.

  Shirley Henderson

  Tired, Eye, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

  Celia Imrie

  Trying, Mouths, Awful

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• I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go.

  Taylor Kinney

  Home, Long, Gypsy

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• I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps, there are no hornets here. If some wanton bee chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground and hold thy hands-there's none will sting thee, if thou strike not first. If any do, she hath honey in her bag will cure thee too.

  Francis Quarles

  Hands, Honey, Buzz

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• Life is just a bag of pot.

  Iggy Pop

  Philosophy, Life Is, Pot

  Song: The Undefeated, Album: Brick By Brick

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• Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

  Angela Kinsey

  Ocean, Cutting, Shopping

  "The Office‘s Angela Kinsey Gets Serious About Sea Turtles" by Tamar Abrams, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums.

  Nancy Byrd Turner

  Christmas, Heart, Red

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• The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.

  Roald Amundsen

  Sudden Change, Made, Wanted

  Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.269, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.

  Dylan Thomas

  Reading, Cat, May

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• We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells something, he has got to have it sitting there in a bucket, or a bag, or a jug, or a cage, or a rat trap, or something, depending on what it is he is selling. We are continually buying something that we never get from a man that never had it.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Men, Law

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• ... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them. Holiday shoppers have been whipped into a frenzy by months of holiday advertisements, and they will buy anything small enough to stuff into a shopping bag. If your children object to being tied, threaten to take them to see Santa Claus; that ought to shut them up.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Humorous, Holiday

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• I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.

  Iris Apfel

  Eyeglasses, Color, Play

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• Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hands, Class, People

  "Report on the Activities of the Council of People's Commissars". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 459-61, January 24, 1918.

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  It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.

  Tiger Woods

  Stuff, Week, Mediocre

  PLAYERS press conference, news.tigerwoods.com. May 10, 2015.

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