Pockets Quotes - Page 23

• The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

  Theodor Adorno

  Powerful, Names, Credit

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.128, Verso

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• A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

  Ian Anderson

  Children, Rock N Roll, Stealing

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• I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.

  Neil Armstrong

  White, Diagrams, Sock

  "The Engineered Century". Neil Armstrong's remarks during National Engineers Week on behalf of the National Academy of Engineering at the National Press Club, www.nae.edu. February 22, 2000.

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• Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

  Charles Babbage

  Exercise, Salary, Merit

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.11

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• There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

  Christian Bale

  Father, Men, Should Have

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• It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

  Antonio Banderas

  Country, Money, Years

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• For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

  James M. Barrie

  Book, Ink, Firsts

  Speech at the Critics' Circle in London, 26 May 1922, in The Times 27 May 1922

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• Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hands, Skills, Able

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2355, Delphi Classics

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• The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

  Jo Brand

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

  Julie Burchill

  Rose, Missing, Mouths

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). “Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea”, Virgin Books Limited

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• She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

  Raymond Chandler

  Smile, Laughter, Laughing

  Farewell, My Lovely ch. 18 (1940)

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• Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Learning, People, Watches

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 22 February 1748

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• Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Birthday, Book, Writing

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• A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Memories, Writing, Imagination

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”, p.136

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• I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

  Cameron Diaz

  Kids, Hair, Jeans

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• He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

  Charles Dickens

  Running, Eye, Two

  "Nicholas Nickleby".

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• Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Umpires, Two

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• The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Death, Spiritual

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• The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.

  Thomas Frank

  Choices, Needs, Care

  "Why Democrats Are Losing on Health Care" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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• There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

  Thomas Friedman

  Distance, Phones, Differences

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• Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Police, Wish, Research

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• Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Disease, Moral, Should

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• We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!

  Josh Hutcherson

  Funny, Interesting, Insane

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• Some of the stage outfits I've got are ridiculous. I'll lay out clothes to pack, and it'll look like Polly Pocket clothing - because it's all stretchy, it's tiny. I don't need a case when I tour; I can fit it all in my handbag.

  Jessie J

  Clothes, Needs, Looks

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

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• We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

  Steve Jobs

  Strong, Stupid, Opportunity

  "Apple Using Cash to Secure Cache of Components" by John Paczkowski, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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