Bags Quotes - Page 8

• I think, on a personal level, everybody, when you go through the checkout line after you get your groceries and they say, 'Paper or plastic?' We should be saying, 'Neither one.' We should have our own cloth bags.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, Should Have, Paper

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• I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

  Julianna Margulies

  Eye, Thinking, Lucky

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• Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated.

  Blake Lively

  Shoes, Needs, Stories

  "Blake Lively: Blonde Ambition". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. February 1, 2012.

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• My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

  Felicity Jones

  Italian, Vanity, Use

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• I have candy all the time. I live on gummy bears and peach rings. They're like dried-up peaches, only dipped in sugar. You can get 'em at gas stations. They're like 99 cents for four bags. And cashews. I love cashews.

  Miley Cyrus

  Gas Stations, Ems, Four

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• Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

  Orson Scott Card

  Men, Tape, Politics

  "Treasure Box". Book by Orson Scott Card, August 1996.

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• Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Goal

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• I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.

  Les Dawson

  Funny, Travel, Prayer

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• I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.

  Jessye Norman

  Love, Children, Heart

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• I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Christmas, Thinking, People

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• We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Oxford, Luxury

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• Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Strong, Son

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History”, p.41, Penguin

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• For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made them defy death in a thousand shapes; the unknown seas, the loathsome diseases; wounds, captivity, hunger, pestilence and despair. It made them great! By heavens! It made them heroic; and it made them pathetic, too, in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old

  Joseph Conrad

  Cutting, Sea, Heaven

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Joseph Conrad: Selected Novels”, p.284, Anthem Press

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• History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

  Joseph Heller

  Country, Light, Electric Motors

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.

  Henry Czerny

  Dad, Ends, Reviews

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

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• I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

  Dwight Henry

  Moving, Hollywood, Stuff

  "Dwight Henry Explains How His Hurricane Katrina Experience Made Him Perfect for 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'". IFC interview, www.ifc.com.

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• It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.

  Joan Didion

  Paper, Cry, Antidote

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Night, Darkness, Gold

  "Stray Birds".

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• The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I'm trying to work through and get the one essential.

  John Coltrane

  Play, Trying, Sound

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• Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together. Not to fight to try to liberate ourselves from the men - this is another trick to get us fighting among ourselves - but to work together with the black man, then we will have a better chance to just act as human beings, and to be treated as human beings in our sick society.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Fighting, Men, Sick

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• I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you’re bent over about the color, don’t leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mean, Math, Probability Theory

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.113, Macmillan

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• At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.

  Joe Bastianich

  Home, Meals, Tomatoes

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• Ive always loved when girls carry their wallets as a clutch instead of a bag.

  Alexander Wang

  Girl, Wallets, Clutch

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• I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

  Thomas Mallon

  Wall, Sleep, Paris

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• Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.

  William Henry Irwin

  Spring, Adventure, Journey

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