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“I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.”

Want Helping School Guy Girl White Middle Scary Math Be Good Pockets Friendly Protector Middle School Nerdy White Guys Scary Things School Girl

Author:Danica McKellar

“No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”

Source: Along some rivers: photographs and conversations

“There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.”

Literature Bears Praise Pockets

Author:Moliere

“Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.”

Has Beens Cities Hell Pockets Chicago Swagger Swag

Book:The American Way of Life

Source: The American Way of Life

“There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.”

Art Seems Political Culture Movement Presses Creator Extremes Resistance Pockets Protest Margins Savvy Hope For The Future Techno Political Culture Protest Movements

Author:Alan Moore

“Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.”

Has Beens War Past Company Millions Average Iraq Pockets Arrested

Author:Michael Moore

“I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.”

People Thinking Want Share Couple Pockets Bathroom

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?”

Want Care Lasts Suits Pockets Who Cares Denmark

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.”

Mean Doe Kids Today Used Games Sports Military Car Computer Passionate Video Pockets Geek Skinny Protector Acne

Book:Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek

Source: Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek

“There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.”

Hate I Hate Lips Mysterious Pockets Caps

Author:Rachel Nichols

“When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.”

Time Deals Hundred Thrive Pockets

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.”

People Persons Said Names Prayer Known Written Down And Combination Pockets Hebrew Sondheim

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.”

Stills Lows Hot Manage Expensive Pockets Expenditures

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”

“President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.”

“I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.”

Certain Class Watches Military Amount Paper News Vote Luxury Upset Pockets Working Class Lap Angst Trenches Military Family

Author:Pink

“Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.”

Lost Ability Results Policy Election Democratic Congress Pockets Agendas Massive November

Author:John Podhoretz

“The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.”

World Interesting Creativity Audience Exciting Various Pockets Liberating Facets

Author:Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

“I haven't left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can remember. Whenever I start thinking I'm incredibly cool, the packet of Kleenex in my back pocket brings me right back down to earth.”

Thinking Long I Can Earth Remember House Left Havens Pockets Down To Earth Kleenex

Author:Josh Radnor

“They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.”

Ifs May Sides Cases Pockets Frogs Handguns

Author:Dan Rather

“When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.”

Mind Rooms Music Kissing Rings Pockets

Author:Don Rickles

“If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.”

Ifs Years Government Taxes Pockets Wet Taxation Income Tax Creeks Tax Day Tax Dollars Taxes Funny

Book:The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915

Source: The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915

“I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.”

Pockets Vegas Las Vegas

Author:Adam Sandler

“The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.”

Persons Able Names Powerful Burden Credit Pockets Most Powerful Powerful Person

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.”

Feels Littles Bigs Three Strong Brave Passionate Sexy Tiny Pockets Feel Better Emily Little Women

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.”

Hands Able Left Skills Equal Picks Pockets Ambidextrous

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.”

Two Hands Government Politics Peace Thirds Unions International Pockets Thieves Alliances Plunder

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.”

World Two Film Walks Shots Pockets Packs Frugal Polaroids

Author:Patti Smith

“The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.”

Men Political Liberty Economic Security Economics Pockets

Book:No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard

Source: No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard

“Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.”

Literature Money Pockets Saving Money

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.”

People Use Wisdom Pockets Mediocrity Ambitious Mediocre Discouraging Console

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.”

Real Self Problem Would Be Running America Lines Company Models Capitalism Moved Managers Corporations Pockets Owners Stakes Ownership Dilemma American Capitalism

Author:James Surowiecki

“You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Next Individual Crime Fine Criminals Corporate Pockets Jail Do You Know Penalties Next Time Think Twice Kitties Deterrent Committing Crimes

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.”

People World Reason Government Fighting Compassion Logic Israel Pockets Logical Extremism Pragmatic Muslim World

Author:Al-Waleed bin Talal

“Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.”

Sports Ten Pressure Dollars Pockets Dimes

Author:Lee Trevino

“The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.”

Want Mean Space Rooms Program Radio Pockets Urges Grandparent Furniture Living Room Electronics Space Program

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

Language Communication Beats Occasions Unconscious Pockets Vocabulary English Language Pursued Alleys Rifles Foreign Language Vocabulary Words Alleyways American Language

Author:Booker T. Washington

“Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.”

Kind Book Suffering Lost Worst Morality Seasons Seeds Preparation Pockets 4th Of July Passing Away Robbery Bad Seed

Author:George Washington

“The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.”

Men Made White Conscience Appeals Pockets White Man

Book:On Lynchings

Source: On Lynchings

“The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.”

Picks Function Theology Pockets Unspeakable Recitation

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.”

“You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.”

“Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.”

Children Tears Mom Needed Excited Noses Pockets Comforting Cotton Bakers Aprons Sanitary

Author:Regina Brett

“It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.”

Helping Inspiration Literature Friendship Holes Pockets Helpful Coins

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”

Men Wisdom Empty Pockets Adventurous Empty Pockets

Book:The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets...supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.”

World Home Stuff Lines Harder Spread Pockets Storage Maui Honolulu

Author:George Carlin

“The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.”

“There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.”

Ifs Men World I Can Use Light Eye Walks Vision Environment Fronts Leaving Boundaries Pockets Pool Isolated Definite Disadvantages Gadgets Flashlights

Author:Edward Abbey

“I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once you’ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when it’s time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.”

Knows Firsts Long Certain Fighting Lost Felt Watches Streets Strange Safe First Time Instinct Reaching Pockets Belts Notebook Wrists Slipping

Book:Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

“The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.”

Party Morning Pieces Missing Affair Intense Pockets Coats Invitations Peanuts Claire

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works