“It's true that non-ionizing radiation lacks the power to have damage. But its damage seems to come from its modulated signal. So every 900 milliseconds, if you have a cellphone in your pocket, it's getting half of that radiation which is getting into you as it seeks the signal from the tower.” IfsSeemsHalfDamagePocketsRadiationTowersSignalsCellphone Author:Devra Davis
“The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar - like part of my childhood. The smell of the wax. Whenever I put one on now, it just feels comforting.” FeelsRememberChildhoodSmellLocalsFamiliarPocketsComfortingJacketsShepherds Author:Sam Heughan
“There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the church has never experienced since the Book of Acts.” GivingBookChurchHugeGiving UpPocketsHarvestReap Author:John C. Maxwell
“The fact is that you can be a Nazi living in a little trailer in the middle of Montana and as awful as everything you stand for is, you're basically an angry guy in a shack. Scientology, on the other hand, is a multi-billion dollar institution with tentacles that reach into lots of countries. I don't think it's as powerful as many people think it is, but compared to the sorts of people I've dealt with, it is a force to be reckoned with. It has global influence and very very deep pockets.” PeopleThinkingLittlesCountryFactsHandsGuyForcePowerfulInfluenceMiddleInstitutionsAngryDollarsBillionsAwfulPocketsNaziVery DeepTrailersMontanaScientologyShackTentacles Author:Louis Theroux
“When you're working, you're flying on someone else's buck. When you're flying on your own, you sort of go, 'You know what, I'd rather keep the dosh in my pocket to spend when I get there.” KnowsFlyingPocketsBucks Author:Luke Evans
“I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified that this beat cop happened to be in their neighborhood checking people's pockets for pot because of a predictive policing algorithm. That's just not how it works.” PeopleThinkingYearsTwoHappenedBeatsExtrasScorePocketsNeighborhoodTwo YearsPotCopAlgorithmsRecidivism Author:Cathy O'Neil
“I'm a trained actor and I can always tone it down, I can always simplify the work I've done. But if I'm asked to bring the nuanced and complicated work, I'll have it in my pocket, and all that information helps.” IfsI CanDoneHelpingActorsInformationComplicatedTonePocketsSimplify Author:Patrick Heusinger
“If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.” IfsPockets Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.” GivingCertainMoralTruth IsScaryPocketsScratchesFiberGaugesVeneerMoral Fiber Author:Ani DiFranco
“The American people have a right to know that, when Donald Trump's making decisions, they are being made in their best interests without him lining his pockets.” PeopleKnowsMadeInterestDecisionTrumpPocketsMaking Decisions Author:Elijah Cummings
“All you have to do is follow the money and if you follow the money, it leads right back to Donald Trump's pockets.” IfsTrumpPockets Author:Elijah Cummings
“Comparing what the Democrats offer to what the Republicans offer is like comparing the money I have in my pocket to what Bill Gates has in his.” RepublicanOffersBillsDemocratComparePocketsGates Author:Jackie Mason
“The focus on creativity and independence exists in pockets of resistance in the educational system, which, to thrive, should be integrated with the needs and concerns of the great majority of the population. One finds them everywhere.” NeedsShouldCreativityFocusConcernIndependenceMajorityPopulationEducationalResistanceThrivePocketsIntegratedEducational System Author:Noam Chomsky
“Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.” CompanyRaisesPocketsCashWagesShareholders Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget. Your home or apartment. Your car. Your insurance. If you are overspending on these big monthly bills, then money's draining out of your pocket a lot faster than you can replace it by clipping coupons or buying cheaper coffee.” IfsLooksHomeBigsCarBillsCoffeeFasterBudgetsBuyingPocketsApartmentTicketsItemsCheaperDrainingOverspending Author:Elizabeth Warren
“The great thing about London is the little pockets of culture, like Hackney, which has its panto and its great community. Of course there's also the West End with its brilliant theatres and thriving tourism but to also have areas like Hackney which are so community based but not exclusive, that remind you that those surrounding you are the most important, is what makes London what it is.” LittlesImportantEndsCultureCoursesCommunityAreasWestLondonTheatreBrilliantGreat ThingsPocketsExclusiveTourismWest EndHackney Author:Clive Rowe
“Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends in how and where people interact with digital documents.” PeopleInformationPocketsDigitalTrendsDocuments Author:Tom Peters
“Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.” JobsOpportunityNationsGoalPovertyEconomySizeProsperityPocketsOwnershipSetting GoalsEquality Of Opportunity Author:Jack Kemp
“Every single morning since I've been 27 years old, I've got up and someone's handed me a card like the one I have in my pocket with the schedule on it, of all the things I'm gonna do. I don't know what to do if I didn't have that card.” IfsKnowsYearsMorningCardsPocketsSchedules Author:Joe Biden
“There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsFirstsIdeasGuyInterestingTeachSecurityDesignDressesAssumingExtrasPocketsGrayCombatPantsBad Guys Author:William Gibson
“We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it's like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.” WellsPoliticalUsedLessonsTerroristCardsPocketsSomedayBitesEightyScorpions Author:Bashar al-Assad
“No president stays in town. They all decamp. They all leave. They go back somewhere. But Obama is gonna stay there, and there's one reason why. He's not going to sit quietly by... Let's say there's a Republican elected president. He's not gonna sit quietly by and let whatever he thinks he's accomplished be unraveled. He's gonna be speaking up often about what he disagrees with, and he knows he's gonna have the media in his back pocket.” ThinkingKnowsReasonPresidentMediaRepublicanTownsReason WhyAccomplishedPocketsDisagreeSpeaking Up Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be an extension of ourselves, and he positioned Apple that way. The iPod was this revolutionary device with the idea of 1,000 songs in your pocket, and then that machine represents who you are.” PeopleWayFirstsIdeasJobsSongComputerToolsMachinesWho You AreRevolutionaryApplesPocketsDevicesExtensionsIpods Author:Alex Gibney
“I'd like to own Intel... I'd like to own Microsoft... I'd love to have Warner Bros in my hip pocket.” HipsPocketsMicrosoftBrosWarner Bros Author:Stan Lee
“We have to create jobs, put money into the taxpayer's pocket and Hillary Clinton has not shown that she is competent to be President of the United States.” StatesJobsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesClintonPocketsTaxpayersCompetent Author:Doug Ford, Jr.
“People are just fed up with these politicians that get up there, promise something, don't commit to their promises after they get elected. And it's all about - you know what it's all about? Filling their buddies' pockets full of money, sole-sourced deals, giving contracts. It's all about the money.” PeopleKnowsGivingDealsPoliticianPromiseCommitGet UpPocketsFedsContractsSoleFillingBuddyFed Up Author:Doug Ford, Jr.
“Without going too deep, without globalization I am not sure everyone would be able to have a supercomputer in their pocket at the low cost.” Would BeAbleCostLowsNot SurePocketsGlobalizationToo DeepSupercomputers Author:Ken Moelis
“America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just throwing stuff around.” AmericaStuffPoorRichWeaponsAreasGiantsPocketsThrowingBewildered Author:Arundhati Roy
“I think for many of us - speaking for just a pocket of the country - we trusted Obama. So when you leave your baby with your mom to watch, you don't run home and check the nanny cam. But now we've left the baby with Gary Busey, so we're going to be a lot more on it.” ThinkingCountryHomeRunningLeftWatchesBabyMomChecksPocketsTrustedYour MomGaryNannies Author:John Mulaney
“If you think "sagging," and, how many women you've got, and how big a chain you've got, and how much dope you're slangin', and how much money you've got in your pocket makes you a "man," then you're sadly mistaken. You're going to be a misguided soul your entire life.” IfsThinkingMenSoulBigsChainsPocketsMistakenDopeMisguidedSagging Author:Steve Harvey
“In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of it, you're supposed to get the profit. It doesn't happen in our system. The taxpayer paid for it and gets nothing - assumes all of the risk, gets zero. The money goes into the pockets of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who are ripping off decades of work in the public sector.” IfsLongHappensJobsTermPrinciplesRiskPaidBillsAssumingInvestmentProfitDecadesLong TermPocketsGatesZeroCapitalistTaxpayersPublic Sector Author:Noam Chomsky
“[Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.” LittlesTwoIdeasEndsWantedBeautifulFormWishHalfPiecesPaperIncrediblesDrawingInstancePocketsExplorationTallBreakfastPotInchesPlatesVolumePencilsStolenExquisiteScrapCeramicsDraftsman Author:Warren MacKenzie
“If [Bernard Leach] didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.” IfsLittlesDoneWantedFormStuffBitsPiecesFrontsProducePaperLittle BitDrawingPocketsPotPottery Author:Warren MacKenzie
“It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . .” IfsFoundGrowsFieldsHolesInsanePocketsCoins Author:Pablo Picasso
“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.” KnowsWantLongFeelingsFatherTalkingDogBrokenDiedRoseBoxesBoatPocketsChocolateCaptainsStemLiedBox Of Chocolates Author:Leonard Cohen
“China and Russia play very different roles. They both are getting involved across the world in all different pockets. Their tentacles are everywhere. Russia is doing it through elections and through military actions and through trying to get involved in conversations. China is doing it economically. If you look at their infrastructure, they are everywhere in the world now and they want to continue to do that so that they have a stronghold.” IfsWorldWantTryingLooksDifferentPlayActionRolesMilitaryInvolvedConversationElectionChinaRussiaPocketsInfrastructureGet InvolvedTentaclesStrongholdsMilitary Action Author:Nikki Haley
“I feel that one of the roles of the artist, in the way I define it, is that I need to be not just someone observing these tiny pockets of people on the planet who have devoted their lives to preserving whatever it is they're passionate about. I want to be them. I am one of them. I just have a different outlet and final outcome as an artist than many of them would. For them, the process can just end in holding on to it, just knowing they've got it tucked away in their private collection. I value that so much, but I feel the conversation dies in a way there.” PeopleWayWantNeedsFeelsDifferentEndsArtistValuesDiesProcessRolesKnowingPlanetsConversationFinalsPassionateTinyOutcomesCollectionsPocketsDevotedObservingOutletsHolding On Author:Dario Robleto
“One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the more striking. There are pockets of the old bullfighting world that exist more or less intact, both in Spain and elsewhere.” ThinkingWorldValuesSurvivalPocketsElsewhereSpainBullfightingOld Values Author:Bette Ford
“Black people ALL are fightin' you all for freedom, justice and equality. One believes that intermarriage is gonna solve it, and 200 years from now we all will be a beautiful cream color. He really believes it. One believe that gittin' some rifles and shootin' up the country is gonna solve it, another believes that education. One day we'll be the president. One believe that we gotta git into the white man's pockets and get all the money.” PeopleMenYearsBelieveCountryBeautifulBlackPresidentJusticeWhiteColorOne DaySolvePocketsBlack PeopleCreamWhite ManRiflesEquality And JusticeIntermarriage Author:Muhammad Ali
“You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.” ActingCompanyMillionsPlansRiskTreatsDollarsRidiculousPocketsFundDriversBusAppetiteMillion DollarsPensionHedge FundBus DriverPension Plans Author:Shia LaBeouf
“There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.” MenWorldShouldHas BeensFatherBitsShould HaveBreathsComplexityPocketsMapsDevotedShould Have BeenRoamingFamily Man Author:Christian Bale
“If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King.” IfsWayFirstsWantedJobsBrotherKingsCome UpIncomeMy BrotherPocketsBurgersBurger King Author:Queen Latifah
“It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.” YearsCountryMoneyHappenedHonorYears AgoLifetimePrivilegePocketsNo MoneySaving Money Author:Antonio Banderas
“I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude.” KnowsShouldHas BeensShowsCareersBabyGratitudeGet UpPocketsMy Baby Author:John Lydon
“People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.” PeopleFeelsDown AndLegsOilGasPocketsHolding OnShakingUpside DownPumpsTippingCartels Author:Ed Markey
“Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.” FeelsYearsMeanKidsRecordsPressureAlbumsPocketsReally Mean Author:Chris Martin
“I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.” HumorFunnyCertainSongComedyPocketsLightersSmokers Author:Demetri Martin
“When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.” PeopleThinkingNightImagineComputerGlassesCodePocketsThickAll NightComputer ScienceProtector Author:Marissa Mayer
“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.” FirstsBookPocketsInkFaded Author:James M. Barrie
“I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.” LooksMeanChildrenLittlesHelpingJobsPayTeacherMaterialsAmountPockets Author:Phil McGraw