Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.
She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. "I hope you choke on every penny. " "Pick that up. " She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could.
When moneys in a purse in my own pocket It means wealth.
Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story.
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole Like some pocket history of the world, so general As to constitute a sob or wail
POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.
And there are vampires, too? Werewolves, warlocks, all that stuff?" Clary gnawed her lower lip. "So I hear. " "And you kill them, too?" Simon asked, directing the question to Jace, who had put the stele back in his pocket and was examining his flawless nails for defects. "Only when they've been naughty.
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself. " "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.
I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.
I told them he'd be able to get you to go out. " Rianne folded her winnings and tucked the bills into her blazer pocket. "Look at him. " "He's right here, Ri," Carla murmured, shooting Keenan an apologetic look. "We've tried to teach her manners, but. . . " She shrugged. "It's like housebreaking a dog. If we'd had her when she was a puppy, maybe. " Rianne smacked her on the arm, but she was grinning. "Woof, woof.
I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'
If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
You were wrong. She really is the new general in town. " I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel. " He arched an eyebrow. "Oh? Did you demote yourself? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said.
All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.
If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.