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Quotes About Pockets

Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.
~ A.A. Milne
war required allies, preferably ones with deep pockets and powerful navies. To seek out such allies for the American Revolution, the recently established Continental Congress sent emissaries to Paris.
~ Ada Ferrer
I'm not an expert on politics, but there's a bunch of bad people at the top who care about lining their own pockets before creating a society that looks after the vulnerable.
~ Sam Fender
We should be bolstering American energy independence and American jobs - not making ourselves vulnerable by lining the pockets of foreign energy suppliers.
~ Andrew R. Wheeler
If only someone else's flesh and brain and memory. If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaner's and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only...
~ Ray Bradbury
When you buy a jacket, it's important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!
~ Daniel Pennac
And how much was in this fabled wallet?" "About two hundred and fifty dollars." "Baldheaded Jaysus, and I bet you got it all in your pockets, too.
~ Richard Bachman
I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with 38 pockets and a mesh hat with hooks in it.
~ Craig Ferguson
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
~ Will Rogers
Money is always there but the pockets change.
~ Gertrude Stein
The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.
~ Mark Steyn
Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.
~ Gertrude Stein
Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.
~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The news isn't all positive in relation to regional accents. There are pockets of resistance to the general trend, some quite influential. A report in the Independent (7 March 2017) was headed: Banking jobs denied to young people due to having 'wrong accents
~ David Crystal
He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.
~ Jim Davis
The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.
~ Sara Gruen
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.
~ Anita Desai
outside of the structures of the existing institutionalized religions. There were always pockets of spirituality even in mind-dominated religions, although the institutionalized hierarchies felt threatened by them and often
~ Eckhart Tolle
Must you respect a man to be in his service?" "No," he answered carefully. "But since it helps to be paid, you must respect the fullness of his pockets.
~ Alastair Reynolds
On his way through Monza, he passed by an open shop with bread loaves on display. He asked for two, so that he would have more for later. The baker gestured at him to stay outside, and passed him a bowl of water and vinegar on a small palette, telling him to toss the coins into it. Then he gave him the two bread loaves with a long pair of tongs, one at a time, which Renzo stuck in his pockets.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.
~ Gregory Benford
Cross-body bags are my favorite, because if something isn't across my body or in a pocket, I'll put it down and forget it forever.
~ Camille Rowe
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
~ Samuel Adams