Pocketful Quotes

#1. Sing A Song Of Sixpence A Pocketful Of Lies

Kathleen Baldwin

#2. I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

Liz Murray

#3. There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

#4. Hart, you'd schedule Christ's second comimg and have Wilfred send him an itinery.

Jennifer Ashley

#5. Is that a ziggurat in your pocket or are you just Mesopotamia? You should know I sell happy-to-see-me's & bananas individually or by the pocketful.

Jarod Kintz

#6. I'm petrified. Because being this close to you is doing things to me. Strange things and irrational things and things that flutter against my chest and braid my bones to ether. I want a pocketful of punctuation marks to end the thoughts he's forced into my head.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

Carson McCullers

#8. This was the cream of marriage, this nightly turning out of the day's pocketful of memories, this deft habitual sharing of two pairs of eyes, two pairs of ears. It gave you, in a sense, almost a double life: though never, on the other hand, quite a single one.

Jan Struther

#9. He was kissing me like we were both on fire and he was trying to put the flames out, and I kissed him back like an arsonist with a pocketful of matches.

Jenn Bennett

#10. Worldly Wisdom
Do not stay in the field!
Nor climb out of sight.
The best view of the world
Is from a medium height.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Teenagers are people too!

Joyce Meyer

#12. That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.

Dave Matthes

#13. When you pursue a calling, you will find a community of supporters to champion you along the way. It's not up to you where these people come from or even how to locate them.

Jeff Goins

#14. Argentina & Iraq have been decimated by the same process with different weapons; an IMF cheque & cruise missiles.

Arundhati Roy

#15. No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap.

John Lennon

#16. Ouch!" Amy yelped, causing Hamilton to release her. "Sorry," she said, smiling as she rubbed her shoulder. "I'm just a little sore."
Madison nodded gravely. "Smart peole books are pretty heavy.

Clifford Riley

#17. We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems ... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some obscure web site or newsgroup or derive an iota of cheer by getting rid of pocketful of change.

John Allen Paulos

#18. Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough ... We have to do what is required.

Winston Churchill

#19. My must-have hair products are Phyto silk spray and Kusco-Murphy setting lotion.

Johanna Braddy

#20. Academia is a graveyard of poets.

Kathleen Raine

#21. Dick" Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, "Got to 'scram,

Thomas Pynchon

#22. We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

Candice S. Miller

#23. This household is like a pocketful of coins that jingled together for a time, but now have been slapped on a counter to pay a price. The pocket empties out, the coins venture back into the infinite circulation of currency, separate, invisible, and untraceable.

Barbara Kingsolver

#24. If you want to remain always happy,
Always perfect and always fulfilled,
Then always keep inside your heart
A pocketful of sweet dreams.

Sri Chinmoy

#25. I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

Walter Annenberg

#26. I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

Mackenzie Astin

#27. Esther always avoided asking questions of Lydley, who found an answer as she found a key, by pouring out a pocketful of miscellanies.

George Eliot

#28. Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

Fran Lebowitz

#29. I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.

Mickey Cohen