Pockets Quotes - Page 37

• Corporations are people, my friend... Of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings, my friend.

  Mitt Romney

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  "Romney heckled in Iowa; says "corporations are people". Mitt Romney's speech to fair goers during a campaign stop at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, www.cbsnews.com. August 11, 2011.

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• It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Coffee, Writing

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• I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.

  Ben Hogan

  Hate, Golf, Hook

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• You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Play, Two

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• When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Class, Watches, Made

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”

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• An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Business, Men, Hammers

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 24

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• Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Watches, Company

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.357

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• He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.

  Wilson Mizner

  Sarcastic, Men, Hatred

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• I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law.

  Lenny Bruce

  Funny, Money, Law

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Fall, Rivers, Luck

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• Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.

  Anne Carson

  Winter, Eyelashes, Hands

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick.

  Neal Shusterman

  Thinking, Plums, Dinner

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel." He arched an eyebrow. "Oh? Did you demote yourself? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said.

  Richelle Mead

  Keys, Eyebrows, Body

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• As for this," Magnus said sliding the stele into Jace's jeans pocket, "keep it in your pants, Shadowhunter." - 219

  Cassandra Clare

  Jeans, Pants, Magnus Bane

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• I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys Iʹd swiped when weʹd come back inside. ʺThe driver,ʺ I said. I DIDNʹT GET TO DRIVE.

  Richelle Mead

  Keys, Said, Drivers

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• Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

  Ray Bradbury

  Boys, Magician

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.

  William Gibson

  Fun, Intelligent, Addiction

  William Gibson (2010). “Zero History”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• And I don't think I want to meet this super-reaper." Nash stuffed his hands in his front pockets. "The garden variety's weird enough.

  Rachel Vincent

  Garden, Thinking, Hands

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save”, p.341, Harlequin

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• ‎We only have so many faces in our pockets

  Marlon Brando

  Motivational, Faces, Many Faces

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• You mean I'm going to have to do a spell in front of a bunch of toffs?" Kim said, outraged that no one had mentioned this before she had agreed to this come-out. "Yes, exactly", Lady Wendall said serenely. "You and Richard have plenty of time to design something that will reflect your unique background, as well as demonstrating your abilities as a wizard. I am looking forward to seeing what you decide upon." "I could pick everyone's pockets at once with magic, "Kim said, still disgruntled. "That'd 'reflect my unique background', all right".

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Mean, Unique, Decide Upon

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.305, Macmillan

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• Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

  Markus Zusak

  Stories, Legion, Existence

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• Unbelievable," I heard Christian mutter behind me. "She toops them both?" I head Drustan ask. "And they permit it?" Dageus sounded baffled. I looked between V'lane and Barrons. "This isn't even about me." "You're wrong about that." Barrons reached into his pocket and pulled out a cell phone. "You know how to find me if you want me." He was walking away. "More nifty acronyms?" He was gone.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Christian, Cells, Walking Away

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• I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.

  Kami Garcia

  Tangled, Weight, Necklaces

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• Deftly whipping a small tuning fork from his pocket, he struck it smartly against a pillar and held it next to Jamie's left ear. Jamie rolled his eyes heavenward, but shrugged and obligingly sang a note. The little man jerked back as though he'd been shot.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Eye, Men, Ears

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.1234, Delacorte Press

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• I remember once walking out hand in hand with a boy I knew, and it was summer, and suddenly before us was a field of gold. Gold as far as you could see. We knew we'd be rich forever. We filled our pockets and our hair. We were rolled in gold. We ran through the field laughing and our legs and feet were coated in yellow dust, so that we were like golden statues or golden gods. He kissed my feet, the boy I was with, and when he smiled, he had a gold tooth. It was only a field of buttercups, but we were young.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Summer, Boys, Hair

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