Pockets Quotes - Page 10

• The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom - the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army

  Warren Farrell

  Army, Men, Boys

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody.

  Steve Young

  Running, People, Quarterback

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• I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves -- and that is the real risk.

  Steve Young

  Real, Player, Risk

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• The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the edge of the Mojave Desert, an area that used to be farm country. There were all these fresh-produce stands with avocados and date palms. You could get a dozen artichokes for a buck or something. Totally wiped out now.

  Sam Shepard

  Country, California, Dozen

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• Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated.

  Chuck Grassley

  Law, Justice, Enforcement

  "Congress Targets Mortgage Fraud: Justice for Victims, Jail for the Guilty". Tri-State Defender, February 12, 2009.

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• Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.

  Franz Halder

  Pistols, Loaded

  "'Why My Friends Felt They Had to Kill Hitler'" by David Smith and Walter Harris, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2004.

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• I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.

  John Pilger

  Winning, Two, Culture

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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• The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake.

  St. Vincent

  Keys, Awake

  Song: Save Me From What I Want

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• The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.

  Markus Zusak

  Doors, Hands, Feet

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Men, Depth, Looks

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

  Charles Stross

  Wearing Black, Obsessive Compulsive, Woven

  Charles Stross (2010). “Glasshouse”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Hands, Stones, Weight

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Of Gravity & Angels”, p.13, Wesleyan University Press

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• Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

  Brad Meltzer

  Lust, Underwear, Wipe

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• When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.

  Frederik Pohl

  Life, Thinking, People

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• I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive... that's part of the reason I love it.

  Matt Smith

  Class, Physicians, Transition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen.

  Michael Vick

  Moving, East, West Coast

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked! Oh you broke? ( *shots* ) Now you're dead broke" My name is L and I'm from a part of town where clowns, Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds 'Cause at nighttime niggas try to tax, they're sneakier than alley cats, that's why I carry gats

  Big L

  Giving Up, Crazy, Book

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• The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

  Dust

  "Salazar: biographical study" by Franco Nogueira, Atlantis Publishing, (p. 383), 1977.

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• To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

  George Stephenson

  Patents, Rail, My Own

  Samuel Smiles, George Stephenson (1857). “The life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer”, p.195

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• The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

  Henri Rabaud

  Shut Up, Salzburg

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• During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.

  Jerry Tarkanian

  Stupid, Hands, Nails

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• Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Father, Years

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• The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than simply to pocket six million quid for having been a failure and run for the hills. They want beautiful, flowing football and tangible success, at St James' Park. Fine. I, meanwhile, want Jessica Alba and the Nobel prize for literature. I make my prospects slightly more realistic.

  Rod Liddle

  Beautiful, Soccer, Football

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• No, Don Camillo; you didn't exactly steal it. Peppone had two cigars in his pocket. Peppone is a Communist. He believes in sharing things. By skillfully relieving him of one cigar, you only took your fair share.

  Giovannino Guareschi

  Wisdom, Believe, Two

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• The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Fall, Black, Trying

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