Packing Quotes - Page 3

• Making those CDs, signing them, numbering them, packing them. It takes hundreds of hours, but it's worth it because I'm able to do the thing I love.

  Michael Gira

  Cds, Things I Love, Able

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• Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.

  Dan Poynter

  Ocean, Book, Writing

  "The Future Of Children's Books". "All Things Considered" with Mary Louise Kelly, www.npr.org. February 18, 2012.

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• It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

  Richelle Mead

  Brain, Impossible, Made

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.69, Penguin

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• In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

  Mary Roach

  People, Mars, Young

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• There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.

  Russell Baker

  Sex, Men, Car

  Russell Baker (1983). “Growing Up”, Plume

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• I’ve always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I’ve fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

  Nanette Lepore

  Balls, Looks, Suitcases

  "Designer Nanette Lepore Talks Travel, Flea Markets & Her Favorite eBay Find". Interview with Heather Summerville, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2010.

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• My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

  Douglas Preston

  Kayaking, Hiking, Cooking

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• Driving a hot car is a lot like sex to me, or a lot like I keep thinking sex should be: A total body experience, overwhelming, to all the senses, taking you places you've never been, packing a punch that leaves you breathless and touches your soul. The Viper was way more satisfying then my last boyfriend.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sex, Thinking, Car

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.86, Delacorte Press

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• But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Two, Rights, Long

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.150

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• I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.

  Paloma Faith

  Weather, Clothes, Example

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• She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

  E. M. Forster

  Giving, World, Easier

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

  Rick Perry

  Moving, Gay, Marijuana

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• Fine. You win. I quit. You two deal with this. I’m going home. Packing up all my personal items, and when you, Caleb, end up dead because the coach has your jockstrap or something else I didn’t steal but someone else did, don’t call me. I’m done and I’m going to hide in a bunker until all of this is over with.” – Nick “I hate you, Nick.” – Caleb “Feels mutual, Demon.” – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Home, Winning

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• I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.

  Holly Black

  Cutting, Long, Rose

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do you have my purple sock with the heart on the ankle? Carmabelle: No. Like I'd wear your socks. Carmen looked from her computer screen down to her feet. To her dismay, her socks were two faintly different shades of purple. She rotated her foot to get a view of her anklebone. Carmabelle: Ahem. Might possibly have sock.

  Ann Brashares

  Heart, Views, Two

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.229, Delacorte Press

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• All he said was, "Here, have your dinfast. Then we can start packing." "Dinfast," Nick repeated. "Dinner and breakfast!" Alan said triumphantly. "Like brunch." Nick subjected him to a long, judgemental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Long, Judgemental, Breakfast

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.

  Patricia Briggs

  Girl, Evil, Drug

  Patricia Briggs (2006). “Moon Called”, p.288, Penguin

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• I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Years, Fifty, Full Life

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• Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off.

  Dannii Minogue

  Fall, The End Of The Day, Diners

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• We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

  Robert Duvall

  Sweet, House, World

  "Fictional character: Prentice Ritter". TV Mini-Series "Broken Trail" ("Part Two"), www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks. He wonders if she has buried any traces of herself under her floorboards. He wonders what those traces would be if she had. And he wonders again why he thinks about her so much when he knows so little to think about.

  Jon McGregor

  Wall, Memories, Thinking

  Jon McGregor (2012). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It was great growing up a nomad. To this day I still love hiking and back packing.

  Jared Leto

  Growing Up, Hiking, Nomad

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• Be forewarned,' the vamp said, 'if I learn that there's anything romantic happening here, I'm sending him packing...less a few body parts.' Kylie's mouth dropped open. 'Romantic? Oh, please, he's old. He's as old as you.' Burnett's brow creased. 'Which is my point.' His frown deepened. 'Not that I'm *that* old.

  C.C. Hunter

  Mouths, Body, Said

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• Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Business, Book

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing.

  Bill Watterson

  Order, Editors, Ideas

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