Pockets Quotes - Page 5

• I believe in the Yves Saint Laurent woman who either has her hands in the pockets of her pantsuit or is holding her lover's hand. She doesn't need a bag.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Believe, Hands, Saint

  "'Fashion Is a Matter of Taste, Not Money'". Interview with Claudia Voigt and Britta Sandberg, www.spiegel.de. April 7, 2011.

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• If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your manservant would have done it for you.

  Tim Gunn

  Labor Force, Done, Maids

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• LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Faith, Science, Hands

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.124, 谷月社

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• Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

  Charles Bukowski

  Horse, Good Horse

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• The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.

  George Will

  Agency, Government, Law

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• My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

  Anthony Doerr

  Silence, Language, Preference

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• Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands' violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She's a top notch thinker and lover of questions.

  dream hampton

  Support, Southern, Racist

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• Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.

  Paul Saffo

  Iphone, Cyberspace, Desks

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• The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Keys, Focus, Niche

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.191, John Wiley & Sons

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• A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Dancer, Photographer

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• It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.

  Michael Caine

  Relationship, Space

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• Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket / Never let it fade away / Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket / Save it for a rainy day

  Perry Como

  Stars, Fall, Rainy Day

  Song: Catch A Falling Star

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• Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

  Jay-Z

  Artist, Hands, Attention

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• If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

  Muddy Waters

  People, Want, Knows

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• I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.

  Ryan Adams

  Travel, Men, Dust

  Song: Oh My Sweet Carolina, Album: Heartbreaker, 2000

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• Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.

  Paul Newman

  Agreement, Ideas, Oil

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• QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Money, Numbers, Persons

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.174, 谷月社

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• COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Money, Kind, Plunder

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.38, University of Georgia Press

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• No matter that I have inhibitions enough 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

  Writing, Museums, Trying

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• Do you want to trust your life in God's pocket or keep it in your own?

  Billy Graham

  Want

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, p.41, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

  Pharrell Williams

  Heart, Mind, Wealth

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• Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time.

  Bill Murray

  Hands, Able, Chance

  "Bill Murray: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I have a girl crush on Rachel Bilson. She's so cute, I just want to put her in my pocket. I love her style, and I'm fascinated by everything she wears, and I think she's a really sweet and kind person. She's cute. I like her.

  Alexandra Chando

  Cute, Crush, Girl

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• I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.

  Saffron Burrows

  America, People, Strange

  "Sufferin' Saffron". Interview with Steve Applebaum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2000.

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• I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.

  Cat Cora

  Fun, Heart, Voice

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