One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.
Like how could you do nothing, and say, 'I'm doing my best. ' How could you take almost everything, and then come back for the rest? How could you beg me to stay, reach out your hands and plead, and then pack up your eyes and run away as soon as I agreed?
I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm asking myself "Do I pack it? It could be cold. " I'm inventing scenarios where I could wear it.
Here's the thing - if you stop learning, you might as well pack it in. You can't learn anything with your mouth open.
Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.
If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.
Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.
What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?
Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from.
Whack 'em, stack 'em and pack 'em.
Trade him for a six pack; it doesn't even have to be cold.
Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.
When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.
Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.
He who cannot howl will not find his pack.
All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.
I'm a real 'go, go' person. . . I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.
When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost. . . All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.
Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.
I am the animal at the head of the pack. … I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.