Pocketed Quotes

#1. He picked up the candelabra, pocketed the doily underneath, then put the candelabra back in place with the pocket watch hanging from it.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. No. That's Clary; shes's my best friend." Simon pocketed his phone. "And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.

Cassandra Clare

#3. I was shocked. A dying word, "shocked." Few people have been able to use it well since Claude Rains so famously said, "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here," as he pocketed his winnings in Casablanca. But it's the only word for excitement and alarm of this intensity.

David Denby

#4. There are many realities pocketed away in the one we call our own. Most go blindly about their lives and never see beyond the ends of their noses.

Karen Marie Moning

#5. One insult pocketed soon produces another.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. pick pocketed your own pocket

Brian Manning

#7. Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

Philip Massinger

#8. There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

Ram Shriram

#9. Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her
father's other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as he
nodded sadly and spoke sombrely and pocketed the silverware
when he thought no one was looking

Derek Landy

#10. He pocketed his watch with a milder look, and began to turn about busily in the empty shell of his own mind. His universe was a brilliantly illuminated circle extending from himself at it's centre to the exact limit of his occupations and interests.

Edith Wharton

#11. It's harder now for journalists to do stories about billionaires, like Peter Thiel, without having at the back of their minds the fear that maybe somebody deep-pocketed, you know, with limited resources is going to come after us and can my organization afford to defend me?

Nick Denton

#12. Sadie, please, come talk to me." "I need to get to work." He reached out for my hand, and I immediately snatched it back and pocketed both of my hands. "Sadie, please." I hated the insecure, little boy I saw in his eyes and the fact it got to me. Dang it.

Abbi Glines

#13. She'd told herself she wouldn't get involved, yet here she was. Typical of those who didn't know how to deal with their own problems. They poked around in other people's troubles so they could feel better about themselves. She pocketed the key.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#14. Harry ran upstairs to their dark dormitory. He pulled out the cloak and then his eyes fell on the flute Hagrid had given him for Christmas. He pocketed it to use on Fluffy - he didn't feel much like singing.

J.K. Rowling

#15. Supposed to be commissioned by the Church, the pardoners would sell absolution for any sin from gluttony to homicide, cancel any vow of chastity or fasting, remit any penance for money, most of which they pocketed.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#16. Last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you but could only find rain and more rain and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, like an orchestra.

Shinji Moon

#17. That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

Mitch Kapor

#18. I'm running out of things to say.
I've stopped stealing pages out of poetry books, but last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you and could only find rain
and more rain
and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, an orchestra.

Shinji Moon

#19. He was fleeced, robbed; and yet he was the exploiter. The government, unhesitatingly obliging to the majority, pocketed his taxes, and allowed him to be bled.

Ernst Junger

#20. The first thing that happened was that Helen became an invalid - we know now that there was nothing wrong with her, but Livilla had given her the choice of taking to her bed as if she were ill or taking to her bed because she was ill.

Robert Graves

#21. It is easy to tell the difference between Jews and Gentiles. After the show, all the gentiles are saying 'Have a drink? Want a drink? Let's have a drink!' While all the Jews are saying 'Have you eaten yet? Want a piece of cake? Let's have some cake!

Jackie Mason

#22. Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?

Rene Descartes

#23. I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.

Jacque Fresco

#24. Healing ultimately comes down to whether or not you have made the decision to do so.

Gary Hopkins

#25. When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

Joan Van Ark

#26. were all wired to come come unwound.

Brian Manning

#27. Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

John Gierach

#28. O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable

William Shakespeare

#29. She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.
The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.

Lauren Oliver

#30. It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

Vida Blue