Top 90 Stocking Quotes
#1. My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book - and have possibly never been since!
Sophie Kinsella
#2. When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#3. In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
Cole Porter
#4. Inside me there is a fire stocking
I burn with passion
Whilst people only see a whiff of smoke
I am told by an inner voice
The human spirit on fire is the most unrelenting force in the deafening silence of the universe.
Gabriel Iqbal
#5. The larger part of the 50,000 English stocking knitters and their families did not fully emerge from the hunger and misery entailed by the introduction of the machine for the next forty years.
Henry Hazlitt
#6. There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
Julie Burchill
#7. I saw the black seam of your stocking
Running down the side of the mountain like a creek
I put the whiskey down and listened
from "Blue Yodel of the Desperado
Frank Stanford
#8. The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.
George Eliot
#9. Stamp: "Fine Maddy, Whatever. Take your little punk loser to the dance. I don't need you, Maddy. I can ask two dozen, three dozen chicks right now to go with me." Maddy: "Well then," I guess you better start stocking up on corsages.
Rusty Fischer
#10. What are we so afraid of? Why don't we let 'em tell us we're afraid? What is it they're afraid of?" She picked up the stocking she had been darning, turned it in her hands, was silent awhile; finally she said, "What are they afraid of us for?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#11. I've done everything from stocking shelves at a natural food co-op, to baking bagels at Brueggers and bussing tables. Then I realized that jobs suck, but if you could get up at 6 A.M. and bake your own breakfast, that is very satisfying.
Marco Arment
#12. That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.
Frank O'Hara
#13. Even though two decades and several years had gone by since [she] first decided to be a fairy, even though Lizabeth Kane now stood five feet six inches tall in her stocking feet, even though she was thirty two years old - she still had aspirations of growing up to be a fairy.
Janet Evanovich
#14. Think of the Christmas present
of gashes you opened when, in an attempt
to be Superman, you slid in stocking feet
on a slippery wood floor and crashed
half way through a window. Hopes
of heroism dashed on the heels
of no clear sighting of Santa.
Kristen Henderson
#15. A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.
Mitch Hedberg
#16. The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking
Guglielmo Marconi
#17. I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.
Eugene Field
#18. I don't much like opera, either. Especially Wagner. There's something about Wagner that's just too piss-German, too fucking Bavarian for a Prussian like me. I like my music to be every bit as vulgar as I am myself. I like a bit of innuendo and stocking-top when a woman's singing a song.
Philip Kerr
#19. A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.
Coco Chanel
#20. A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one.
[Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#22. Whether I'm a Super Bowl Champion or a regular guy stocking groceries at the Hy-Vee, sharing my faith and glorifying Jesus is the central focus of my time on this earth.
Kurt Warner
#23. Silk handkerchief that erupted out of the breast pocket, an affectation he had adopted to distance himself from the Westminster hordes in their banal Christmas-stocking ties and Marks & Spencer suits.
Michael Dobbs
#24. Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#25. They must go out of the theatre with the strength they live by strengthened from looking upon some passion that could, whatever its chosen way of life, strike down an enemy, fill a long stocking with money or move a girl's heart.
W.B.Yeats
#26. I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.
Nick Lowe
#27. Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.
Mo Rocca
#28. Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth.
I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.
Emma Donoghue
#29. And now the bride begins to move. Little mechanical doll, clinging to her husband's arm, climbing into the carriage. Her white silk stocking, her elegant shoe.
Anne Hebert
#30. In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in stocking the Universe on the part of the Deity.
John N. Bahcall
#31. A well-organized stocking drawer is the first step toward a well-organized mind.
Maryrose Wood
#32. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
Janet Fitch
#33. A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.
Oliver Goldsmith
#34. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#35. Her unintended striptease was all the more sensual because Belle was lowering her stocking with agonizing slowness not because she had an audience but because she seemed to love the feel of the silk sliding along her soft skin.
Julia Quinn
#36. Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
Barbara Ehrenreich
#37. Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.
Hamish Bowles
#38. One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up ...
Llewellyn Rockwell
#39. A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
Karl Kraus
#40. Stocking up" is what our robust Americans called it, laughing nervously, because profligate abundance automatically evokes its opposite, the unspoken specter of dearth.
Ruth Ozeki
#41. Her leg, sculptured by the tight sheen of the stocking, its long line running straight, over an arched instep, to the tip of a foot in a high-heeled pump, had a feminine elegance that seemed out of place in the dusty train car ...
Ayn Rand
#42. Some call it stocking, I call it love.
Ralph
#43. It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
Jack White
#44. No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
Al Smith
#45. My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.
Skylar Grey
#46. But the sower Loves to see a woman Fallen asleep in the daytime Over a half-knitted stocking.
Friedrich Holderlin
#47. Everyone who was in the Delacroix house on Christmas morning got a stocking. That was one of the rules.
Eileen Wilks
#48. I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they lose their sense of reason. I'm talking the 'my computer wallpaper is my dog,' 'I hang a Christmas stocking for my cat' crowd.
John Ridley
#49. It's pretty awesome. Mattel does such a great job with detail ... I'm way better looking than Ken. Barbie's been hitting on my action figure the whole time. She actually asked the stocking people if she could hang next to me, but they said no - because it's PG.
The Miz
#50. OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?
Terry Pratchett
#51. readers are saying;
"A great story about a fan's love for 'all things sport' ..."
" Great read. Must buy as a stocking stuffer."
"A great piece of work
Keith Guernsey
#52. When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.
Haruki Murakami
#53. 3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour
Benji Madden
#54. If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking.
Nathan Lane
#55. I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.
Austin Scarlett
#56. It has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.
P.G. Wodehouse
#57. We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.
Vladimir Nabokov
#58. chaise longue and slowly pulled on a stocking. Her body twinged
Eloisa James
#59. With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay. I'll put this in your stocking."
Drew Magary
#60. He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.
Kyra Sedgwick
#62. Donald Trump is a big Christmas gift wrapped under the tree for Hillary Clinton. She desperately hopes she runs against Donald Trump. I, however, am the lump of coal in Mrs. Clinton's stocking, and she desperately hopes she does not run against me.
Carly Fiorina
#63. Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.
Gerald Stanley Lee
#64. Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.
Janet Fitch
#65. two well-recognized economic principles. First, the firmer the monopolistic controls in a given market, the higher the prices. Second, monopoly prices are discriminatory prices. "Charging all the traffic will bear" does not mean that all the traffic will bear the same charge! In fact, it will not.
George W. Stocking
#66. Today chemists can artificially make hundreds of thousands of organic compounds, most of which are not duplicated in nature.
George W. Stocking
#68. If American chemical industries are oligopolistic, British, German, French, Italian, indeed European, chemical industries are monopolistic.
George W. Stocking
#69. There's not enough coffee in the world to fuel all the books I want to write
Christopher Stocking
#70. There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.
Barbara Stocking
#71. Aluminum is a metallic element - one of the principal constituents of the earth's crust. Only oxygen and silicon are more abundant. Aluminum does not occur naturally in its pure form, but only in a wide variety of compounds.
George W. Stocking
#72. Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992,
Barbara Stocking
#73. The record is plain: the cartel system retarded the development of a domestic synthetic rubber industry, and, in so doing, jeopardized national security.
George W. Stocking
#74. the basic principle of capitalism: that the penalties (losses) no less than the rewards (profits) of risk taking shall go to those who embark on a productive venture.
George W. Stocking
#75. What constitutes wise policy . . . will depend on whether the immediate objective of policy is the promotion of political ends, the protection of vested interests, or the satisfaction of consumer needs.
George W. Stocking
#76. Under ordinary competitive conditions, any long and serious maladjustment between supply and demand cannot last.
George W. Stocking
#77. The Supreme Court has declared that such a plea of nolo contendere "admits guilt for the purposes of the case.
George W. Stocking
#78. To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else's work and shove it into our pockets. Then we run home and try to make it our own.
Christopher Stocking
#81. It is clear that both at home and abroad producers have been unwilling to trust their fortunes entirely to the unrestricted play of competition. Both in world and domestic markets businessmen have sought security by substituting collective controls for the free play of market forces.
George W. Stocking
#82. Strip him of equipage and fortune, and such things as only dazzle our eyes and imaginations, but don't in any measure affect our reason or cause a reverence in our hearts, and the poor creature sinks beneath our notice, because not supported by real worth.
Mary Astell
#83. I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.
Christopher Stocking
#84. it is easier to induce national governments to discriminate against foreign producers than to defend the interests of domestic consumers
George W. Stocking
#85. I don't like when people say 'I can't believe I wasted the whole day reading.' Diving into another world to free your mind is hardly a waste.
Christopher Stocking
#86. Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .
Barbara Stocking
#87. International trade in chemical products is not free. . . . Joint control of the market became the general rule; free competition, the exception.
George W. Stocking
#88. She jumped to her feet and hurried off, returning only seconds later with a dark brown bottle and a coffee mug that said And then Buffy staked Edward. The End.
Heidi Betts
#90. In a dynamic democratic society it is indeed difficult to keep in harness the forces of competition.
George W. Stocking
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