Belts Quotes - Page 9

• When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Airports, Typewriters

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• I just didn't want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don't they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog.

  Stephen King

  Dog, Hurt, Eye

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights. It was cold enough for scarves and shirts worn in layers, like camouflage. It was cold enough for her lucky red cardigan, which she swore had a power of its own. She loved this time of year. Summer was tedious with the light dresses she pretended to be comfortable in while secretly sure she looked like a loaf of white bread wearing a belt. The cold was such a relief.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Summer, White, Light

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.1, Bantam

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• The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Fate, Poison

  "The lost world; The poison belt: being an account of another amazing adventure of Professor Challenger".

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• My motto is to go wild on the accessories - the belts, the hair clips, the jewelery.

  Heidi Klum

  Hair, Accessories, Motto

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• Your shoes have to match your belt. That's rule number one for guys. You can't put the brown shoes with the black belt. Or a brown belt with a black wristwatch. Just don't do it! Also, I don't like boots with suits. And when you wear sneakers, make sure they go with your shirt.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Sneakers, Shoes, Numbers

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• There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

  Tiger Woods

  Play, Scotland, America

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• I need to know you believe me when I say I love you. That is all." "I believe everything you say," Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping doen from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of the dagger, and she yanked it from the belt, smiling as he looked down at her in surprise. "After all," she said, "you weren't lying about the tattoo of the dragon of Wales, were you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Tattoo, Lying, Believe

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• In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet.

  Les Dawson

  Moon, Space, Heaven

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.19, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.

  Clay Shirky

  Technology, Media, Long

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• You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, People, Liberty

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment.

  Nick Clegg

  Thinking, People, Majority

  "Nick Clegg: parents can use pension pots to help young people buy property" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2012.

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• He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Airplane, Thinking

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.300, Penguin

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• What kind of belt do you have?

  Ralph Macchio

  Money, Kind

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• People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

  Gene Spafford

  People, Safety, Cost

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• It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values.

  Wangari Maathai

  Spiritual, Community, Done

  Wangari Maathai (2010). “Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World”, p.26, Image

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• Emo is pathetic. It's a tired attempt at making bad music cool, all while rocking dumb haircuts and unisexual belts. Furthermore, adding the suffix '-core' to a description doesn't make it innovative. It makes you look like a tool with no imagination.

  Corey Taylor

  Emo, Tired, Imagination

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• It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

  Joseph Lowery

  Virginia, Florida, Texas

  "Religious Reflections on the Death Penalty". The Pew Forum, www.pewforum.org. June 5, 2001.

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• I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

  Phil Collins

  Thinking, Bullets, Alamo

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• I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak. I'm a great fan of J.K. Rowling, but the people - mainly from America's Bible Belt - who complain that Harry Potter promotes Satanism or witchcraft obviously haven't got enough in their lives. Meanwhile, I've been flying under the radar, saying things that are far more subversive than anything poor old Harry has said. My books are about killing God.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, America, People

  "The shed where God died". Interview with Steve Meacham, www.smh.com.au. December 13, 2003.

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• We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

  "A William Ernest Hocking reader: with commentary".

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• If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants, clean water-the first tack that the lawyers use, among others things, and that companies use, is that it's going to drive the electricity bill up, drive the cost of cars up, drive everything up. It repeatedly has been demonstrated that once the engineers start thinking about it, it's actually far less than the original estimates. We should remember that when we hear this again, because you will hear it again.

  Steven Chu

  Technology, Thinking, Air

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• Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

  Junot Diaz

  Growing Up, Nerd, Use

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• Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

  Henry Ford

  Running, Money, Mean

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• He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

  Horace

  Latin, Wish, Lost

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