Pockets Quotes - Page 27

• If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.

  Bill Haywood

  Hands, Class, Organized Labor

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• My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

  Mia Love

  Opportunity, Land, America

  "The America I know" by Mia Love, dailycaller.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.

  Anson Mount

  Wall, Military, Years

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!

  Alfred Molina

  Ipods, Essentials, Albums

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

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• I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

  Mark Twain

  Glasses, Hypocrisy, Giving

  R. Kent Rasmussen, Mark Twain (2013). “Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers”, p.178, Univ of California Press

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• I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

  Novak Djokovic

  Player, Men, Giving

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• I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Phones, Hands, Want

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.16, Random House

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• Some cameras are heavier and need to be on tripods. Others are small enough to hide in your pocket. There are places where you don't want to feel like you are disturbing anything, so I may use a camera like that.

  Jonas Mekas

  Cameras, Needs, Use

  "Short Films From a Long Life". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 18, 2006.

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• Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.

  Helen Thomas

  Israeli

  "‘I’m anti-Zionist,’ Helen Thomas declared, in twilight of long career" by Philip Weiss, mondoweiss.net. July 21, 2013.

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• Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.

  Charlotte Arnold

  School, People, Negative

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• It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Knowing, Pay, Taxes

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• When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Football, Breaking Down, Break

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• When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be millions of times more cost effective.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Powerful, Phones, Cells

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• When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Moving, Empowering, Police

  "The Church of Scientology Wanted a Balkan Holy Land" by Lily Lynch, balkanist.net. August 27, 2013.

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• Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Judging, Defense, Trials

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.144, Routledge

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• Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need. Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity. When done privately, we deem it theft, and the individual risks jail time.

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, Jail Time, Risk

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.112, Hoover Press

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• There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove.

  Max Weinberg

  Music, Feelings, Flow

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• Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with the gold gun emblem sewn into their pockets and grey slacks. We couldn’t match their ground with that beautiful main entrance, marble halls and spiral staircase. Even in 1961 when we won the Double, we were never as big a club as Arsenal.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Beautiful, Gun, Player

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• The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

  Adrian McKinty

  Book, Past, Needs

  Adrian McKinty (2016). “The Sean Duffy Collection”, p.216, Serpent's Tail

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• American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

  Jim Ramstad

  Home, Rising, Care

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• Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.

  Laurie Notaro

  Dad, Laughter, Book

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• Lay me down,
  Let the only sound,
  Be the overflow,
  Pockets full of stones.

  Florence Welch

  Sound, Stones, Overflow

  "Song: What The Water Gave Me (Album: Ceremonials)". 2011.

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• I've been fined probably more than any driver, and I've probably paid it out of my own pocket more than any driver.

  Kurt Busch

  Drivers, My Own, Paid

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• We have been so impressed with the Pocket Radar that it has become the only radar gun we use for coaching and scouting.

  Mike Candrea

  Gun, Coaching, Use

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• You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Lying, Book, Stones

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.253, Vintage

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