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Quotes About Pockets

Through the devices in our pockets, we are reminded of our limitless freedom, limitless opportunities, limitless ways to indulge our interests. And yet, our lives feel more difficult to navigate than ever.
~ Heather Havrilesky
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.
~ Art Linkletter
If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
~ Byron Dorgan
You know, people only travel really with their seeds, and with their songs. In Bosnia they interviewed a lot of refugees... they'd left with nothing and they asked them what they had, and they had seeds in their pockets from their gardens and their songs. That was it. Once you're nourished in that most fundamental way, everything else follows.
~ Tom Waits
The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Hand and I needed pants, pants to end all pants—warm and cool, breathing and trapping in, full of pockets.
~ Dave Eggers
Never met a bad decision she wasn't willing to double down on. Had fingers made for picking pockets, a tongue for lying, and a shriveled cherry pit for a heart.
~ Holly Black
What do you want?' I ask, digging in my pockets. I take out the swan-shaped scissors I stole from Habetrot. 'These are pretty.' 'Put them away,' he scoffs. 'It would be an insult to be stabbed by those.' 'Then do not court that fate,' I growl softly...
~ Holly Black
Michael stands at the dresser, putting his comb into his back right pocket, his wallet into his back left pocket, his keys into his front right pocket. A place for everything , and everything in its proper place. Except, perhaps, his wife.
~ Unknown
She let a teasing tone enter her voice. 'Is there any emergency for which you are not prepared, Mr Swift?' 'Miss Bowman, if I had enough pockets I could save the world.
~ Lisa Kleypas
If you look at the geographic variation in long-term unemployment, it's really striking. There are pockets where employers don't want to go, but for some reason, in part because of adequate safety nets, people don't want to leave.
~ Kevin Hassett
The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.
~ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.
~ Waris Ahluwalia
A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets, And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint Had bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.
~ David Rakoff
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
~ Constance Rourke
There were discussions about minutiae like pockets, which Virginia Gildersleeve felt were essential for any working woman. But the designers felt pockets would spoil the lines of the suit. 'Utility was sacrificed to looks,' Gildersleeve noted with some disgust in her memoir. 'They certainly looked very attractive and no doubt won many recruits for the Navy; but I regretted those pockets.
~ Liza Mundy
I keep ego and attitude always in my pockets,so that I can use it when my self-respect and sentiments are being tested by people.
~ Unknown
She shrugs into a beige sport coat and drops the two spare magazines in its pockets.
~ Dean Koontz
She never bought jackets without sufficient pockets because she hated carrying handbags or anything else on the job that set her apart from the male detectives.
~ Debra Webb
When I try to picture heaven, I see a place where it's always December, every radio station plays hair bands, and every time I check my pockets they're full of Hershey's Kisses. There's a Christmas parade on every street, every day is my birthday, and the sun always sets at 4:58 p.m.
~ Unknown
Rotgut was, to me, just this way to get into the underground of Manhattan where you have these little pockets a villain could rise from; a rot in the bowels of Manhattan. It led to these stories that were just very creepy.
~ Ann Nocenti
As smartphones have allowed us to have our computers, emails, social media feeds, and a full surveillance system in our pockets at all times, stories of the law enforcement's unease with that have been popping up in the press. And of course, the ones that become viral videos aren't exactly flattering for law enforcement.
~ Sarah Lacy
One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
~ Lorrie Moore