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Quotes About Pocket

The question gave Jefferson a perfect opening. "Put that paper in your pocket, Baron, and should you hear the reality of our liberty, the freedom of our press, questioned, show this paper, and tell where you found it."29
~ Jon Meacham
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
~ A.A. Milne
When the dogs returned, the Senator gave them treats from his pocket, and Jun Do understood that in communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
~ Adam Johnson
Allowances cut from their salary will be recovered indirectly by them from the public's pocket only so they will not lose anything.
~ Probarb
I haven't changed, but public life has. It used to be you'd go into a restaurant, and the owner would say, 'Do you mind if I take a picture of you and put it on my wall?' Sweet and simple. Now, everyone has a camera in their pocket.
~ Alec Baldwin
Sarah, her mind strobing colors, reaches blindly into her pocket, finds her inhaler, triggers it once up each nostril. Her nerves burn with electric light.
~ Walter Jon Williams
Myself I prefer to have the government out of my pocket legally as much as possible but I am not a lawyer so I cannot give legal advice and therefore do not go into details with anyone
~ James D Wilson
He pulled the envelope out of his pocket and ripped it open, then took out the slip of paper. The soft lights that ringed the mirror lit up the message in a warm glow. It was two short sentences: " KILL ME. IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN MY FRIEND, KILL ME.
~ James Dashner
with all your chick peas and your filthy little pocket breads?
~ Donna Tartt
La impresión espartana que transmitía correspondería a su naturaleza o a su bolsillo.
~ Donna Tartt
One of the officials of the party had irritably decided that the President was clearly not in a mood to read the deliciously turned speech that had been written for him, and had flipped the switch on the remote-control device in his pocket.
~ Douglas Adams
In fact,' said Poirot, 'she stabbed him in the dark, not realising that he was dead already, but somehow deduced that he had a watch in his pyjama pocket, took it out, put back the hands blindly and gave it the requisite dent.
~ Agatha Christie
Going to a well-worn overcoat hanging on the back of the door, he took from the pocket a packet of cheap cigarettes and some matches.
~ Agatha Christie
You always do, Mister Ness, and it's to your credit. As are your daughters. Fine specimens, both. It's been my pleasure and my privilege to have seen them through their development." He carried on with the humming, and started digging his short, fat fingers into his pocket. "Would you like a …
~ Alastair Reynolds
I can explain that shot. Arnold moved his wallet to the other pocket.
~ Ben Crenshaw
EXPLOSIVE IN MY COAT POCKET—THE VARIETY THEY CALL BLACK IRISH. TWELVE POUNDS IS ENOUGH TO TAKE OUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE WITHIN A THIRD OF A MILE AND PROBABLY ENOUGH TO EXPLODE THE JETPORT FUEL STORAGE TANKS. IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS
~ Richard Bachman
She closed the blade with a snap, tucking it into her back pocket as she went to let Nan in.
~ Karin Slaughter
I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
~ Gertrude Stein
She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected.... One was a wad of cash... she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!
~ Rick Riordan
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.
~ Will Rogers
If the pocket goes dry but the mind is fertile, awake and plant something noble in the mind and you shall surely reap something noble in the end, no matter what!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
How to double your money: Fold it over once and put it back in your pocket.
~ Jim Dodds