Line Their Pockets Quotes

#1. The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!

John Brunner

#2. Wonderful. They had the rarest, most bewildering power in the world, and how did her family choose to use this incredible gift? To line their pockets with cash and go sightseeing.

Alexandra Bracken

#3. I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

Jim Butcher

#4. Taking the sweatshirt, he raised it to his face and sniffed the bloodstains left on it.

Tim O'Rourke

#5. I love you," I whisper over and over again. "Don't go," I close my eyes. My tears fall on his cheeks.

Marie Lu

#6. The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

Margaret Drabble

#7. Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.

Sue Grafton

#8. If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

Floyd Skloot

#9. Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.

Alexander Woollcott

#10. There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can't be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They're probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn't be elected governor of the state of Illinois.

Barack Obama

#11. live in pockets of time, refuse to walk the line

Brian P. Vadimsky

#12. The House okayed the gasoline tax cut, which will increase the deficit, line the pockets of the oil companies, and hurt the environment; Dole said that if there was just some way this could interfere with people's sex lives, it would be perfect legislation.

Bill Maher

#13. The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

Clement Greenberg

#14. It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure ...

Paul Simon

#15. Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Ira Gershwin

#16. You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.

Aristophanes