Purses Quotes - Page 9

• I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Stars, Children, Believe

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.263, Vintage

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• Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job because I kind of don't like to bend. I also refuse to carry anything heavier than my purse.

  Jen Lancaster

  Jobs, Kissing, Kiss Me

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• Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Men, Jewels

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 155

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• I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.

  Venus Williams

  Adults, Hello, Kitties

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• These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or half-witted hatred, moving the world with the strength of their arms, and getting their heads knocked together in the name of God, the king, or the stock exchange-immortal, dreaming, hopeless asses, who surrender their reason to the care of a shining puppet, and persuade some toy to carry their lives in his purse.

  Stephen Crane

  Dream, Kings, War

  Stephen Crane (1970). “The Works of Stephen Crane Vol. 5: Tales of Adventure”, University of Virginia Press

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• I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

  Lady Gaga

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "Lady Gaga on Getting Married: 'I Can Buy Myself a Fuckin' Ring'". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 29, 2011.

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• When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Fighting, Boxing

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• It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

  Washington Irving

  Struggle, Men, Mind

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.33, Penguin

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• Even murderers, I suppose, experience the loss of car keys the way the rest of us do. I mean, how can they not? Once you make this person scramble around the house looking for her car keys and finally find them, get in the car, and run into traffic, we can identify with her enough that when she stops the car and pulls the gun out of her purse and heads in to kill somebody, we'll be with her as much as is possible.

  Alice Mattison

  Running, Mean, Loss

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Moving, Pigs

  Max Lucado (2012). “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady...take your purse.'

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Today

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• No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Office, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.81, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.

  John Dickinson

  Order, Careers, Blood

  John Dickinson (2009). “The Writings of John Dickinson”, p.364, Applewood Books

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• King gives you this 'bro' stuff and tells you that the white man did this and we should stick together. Then he starts cutting your purse. I was with him for six years. You put your head in a noose when you sign with Don King.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Kings, Cutting, Men

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• Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

  Seneca the Younger

  Too Late, Economics, Economy

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• Im known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches I get more pussy on accident then most niggas get on purpose

  Big L

  Hip Hop, Pussy, Church

  Song: Da Graveyard

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• There is no portion of our time that is our time, and the rest God's; there is no portion of money that is our money, and the rest God's money. It is all His; He made it all, gives it all, and He has simply trusted it to us for His service. A servant has two purses, the master's and his own, but we have only one.

  Adolphe Monod

  Two, Giving, Made

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• There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Heart, Mind

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• Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Wish, Taxation

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.195

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• Full purse makes no noise.

  Juhani Peltonen

  Writing, Noise

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• The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the relief at the end, the whew. It hasn’t the sly turn which crimson takes halfway through, yellow’s deceptive jelly, or the rolled-down sound in brown. It hasn’t violet’s rapid sexual shudder or like a rough road the irregularity of ultramarine, the low puddle in mauve like a pancake covered in cream, the disapproving purse to pink, the assertive brevity of red, the whine of green.

  William H. Gass

  Yellow, Color, Green

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• If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse

  Bob Arum

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• I've got the Rosebud lip balm. I was gonna say my phone but that's not a beauty product. I try to bring my mascara everywhere because I'm a blonde and you know blondes have really light eyelashes, you always wanna put more and more on til they look like spiders, that's just what I do. And that's about it. Those are the two things that I keep. Sometimes if I have a big enough purse I'll bring my perfume or something. Right now I really like Beaute, it's by Johan B. and it's really nice, so I like that.

  Julianne Hough

  Nice, Phones, Light

  "Five Questions with Julianne Hough". www.seventeen.com. July 27, 2009.

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• I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

  Hoda Kotb

  Christmas, Ornaments, Pads

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• Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Children, Father, Men

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