Bags Quotes - Page 19

• If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

  Ben Webster

  Men, Thinking, Gun

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• At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag.

  Pattie Mallette

  Doctors, Games, Medicine

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• Women don't have dicks and they don't want dicks. That amateur psychology crap that women want penises. And they certainly don't want testicles. Because you know no women in her right mind is going to carry around a bag that she can't put stuff in.

  Bobby Slayton

  Psychology, Mind, Want

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• I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative. so, I think I'll just write sequences for the foreseeable (the Beloved sequence doesn't have a 'plot' so I can just keep adding poems to it, it's like a giant bag I can just put beloved lyrics into - I think there are about 300 of them i've published by now).

  Gregory Orr

  Writing, Thinking, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Airports, Tsa

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, therumpus.net. January 13, 2016.

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• I used to hate swimming at school so much that I would always sneak downstairs in the middle of the night and take my swimming costume out of my gym bag and hide it in the house somewhere. Then I'd never have to go swimming at school. This went on for months and I never got caught and my Mum turned into a nervous wreck because the thought she was losing her memory... and then one day she caught me and got super angry. That was kind of bad.

  Charli XCX

  Memories, Hate, School

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable things. And later on, there were periods where I got this mission to find an articulate voice with rewrites and all. There were periods where I was as dense as Faulkner.

  Richard Meltzer

  Writing, Years, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

  Tana French

  Baby, Strong Women, Blow

  "Faithful Place". Book by Tana French, August 19, 2010.

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• You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.

  Deacon Jones

  Baseball, Bats, Offensive

  "Deacon Jones Dies at 74; Made Quarterback Sack Brutal and Enthralling" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. June 4, 2013.

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• I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it’s just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.

  Deacon Jones

  Baseball, Mean, Player

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• Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.

  Frank Muir

  Food, Simple, Leaving

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• I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Dust, Cameras

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• Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside. Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or even break into cars.

  James Q. Wilson

  Fire, Light, Car

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• The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Cat, Curiosity, Would Be

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2002). “The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• I might not have the ability to ever carry a child and I have this damn bag for the time being – but I'm alive.

  Diem Brown

  Children, Alive, Might

  "Cancer Survivor Diem Brown After Hysterectomy: I'm Thankful To Be Alive" by Matthew Scott Donnelly, www.mtv.com. August 28, 2014.

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• The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go.

  Victor Wooten

  Gigs, Stage, Studios

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• A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations. At times, with today's advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America's cities, but the variety of practices is enormous. The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.

  Abraham Verghese

  Beautiful, Country, Caring

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• When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Years, Saws

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.14, Vintage

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• Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

  James Turrell

  Writing, Technology, Pyramids

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• I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.

  Robert Mangold

  Paper, Green, Cabinets

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• When the big guys in Washington dream of transforming the world, it’s the little guys who come home in body bags.

  David Ignatius

  Dream, Home, Guy

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• A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

  Tony Hillerman

  Writing, Stuff, Sticks

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• Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag of manipulative tricks or charismatic behaviors to advance your own personal interest, then people have every right to be cynical. But if your leadership flows first and foremost from inner character and integrity of ambition, then you can justly ask people to lend themselves to your organization and its mission.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Integrity, Ambition, Character

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• Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

  David Guetta

  Technology, Littles, Laptops

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.

  Robin Ince

  Men, Weight, Beast

  Robin Ince (2010). “Robin Ince's Bad Book Club: One man's quest to uncover the books that taste forgot”, p.6, Hachette UK

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