Pockets Quotes - Page 23

• The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

  Theodor Adorno

  Powerful, Names, Credit

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.128, Verso

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• Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

  Charles Babbage

  Exercise, Salary, Merit

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.11

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• There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

  Christian Bale

  Father, Men, Should Have

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• The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

  Jo Brand

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

  Julie Burchill

  Rose, Missing, Mouths

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). “Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea”, Virgin Books Limited

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• She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

  Raymond Chandler

  Smile, Laughter, Laughing

  Farewell, My Lovely ch. 18 (1940)

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• The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Death, Spiritual

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• The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.

  Thomas Frank

  Choices, Needs, Care

  "Why Democrats Are Losing on Health Care" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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• There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

  Thomas Friedman

  Distance, Phones, Differences

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• I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

  Phil McGraw

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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

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• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, School, Math

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

  Moliere

  Literature, Bears, Praise

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• Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

  Ashley Montagu

  Swag, Cities, Chicago

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American way of LIfe”

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• Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none.

  Monique Truong

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Needs, Caution, Ifs

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• The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

  Rick Danko

  Retirement, Play, Together

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• I love signing autographs! Sometimes, when people ask me for one, I keep the photo for myself and frame it. It's a Win-Win situation really; I get an extra 25 dollars in my pocket AND another portrait for my bedroom.

  Zach Braff

  Winning, People, Portraits

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• I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary – and the audience feels it.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Blood, Practice, Play

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• Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Baby, Children, Learning

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• The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, People, Bully

  Interview by Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

  Tom Harkin

  Vaccines, Our Veterans, Giving

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• You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

  Darrell Royal

  Fall, Thinking, Lakes

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies

  Big L

  Crazy, Book, Crooks

  Song: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, 1995

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• But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Museums, People

  "If I should have a daughter". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Want, Should

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.520, Simon and Schuster

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