#pocket

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #pocket




I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.


Woody Allen


#gold #grandfather #his #i #me

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.


Marc Andreessen


#computer #lived #never #opportunity #people

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.


Neil Armstrong


#engineer #ever #i #i am #nerdy

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.


Mary Austin


#first #hunter #i #intention #man

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.


Charles Babbage


#appointment #discuss #drawn #duties #exercising

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


Robert Adams


#film #full #good #had #night

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.


Theodor Adorno


#burden #credit #himself #his #least

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.


Clive Anderson


#chancellor #clutches #comes #depriving #escaping

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.


Christian Bale


#backpack #been #bit #breath #change

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.


James M. Barrie


#after #book #carried #days #faded