Quotes of Sack - somelinesforyou

“ Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being — much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ There are too many ironies in the fire. ”

- John Leonard

“ 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. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Fires all go out eventually. ”

- Unknown

“ Keep your bike in good repair: motorcycle boots are not comfortable for walking. ”

- Unknown

“ My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. ”

- Henry Rollins

“ All the fatt's in the fire. ”

- John Marston

“ Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. ”

- Rumi

“ Money is always there, but the pockets change. ”

- Gertrude Stein

“ America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax. ”

- Robert Osborne

“ Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on. ”

- Gerald Kersh

“ Poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. ”

- Mary Oliver

“ Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts. ”

- Harry F. Banks

“ We condemn this. Israel left the Gaza Strip and has no right to return under any pretext such as the firing of missiles, which I also condemn strongly. ”

- Mahmoud Abbas

“ I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like 'Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy? ”

- Michael Davis

“ The game is on a precipice but hopefully we can dismiss one of my former clubs from the competition. ”

- Bobby Robson

“ We all know our duty better than we discharge it. ”

- John Randolph

“ Democrats would dismiss it at their own peril. ”

- Dick Morris

“ You never know where some might be for dismissal. I've heard an occasional Republican say they might consider that. On the other hand, I do not believe the motion to dismiss will pass next Monday. ”

- Orrin Hatch

“ Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. ”

- Joni Mitchell

“ I'd like to die with my boots on. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns. ”

- Andy Richter

“ Bodies aren't the same as Coca-Cola cans. ”

- Arthur Caplan

“ In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers. ”

- Alan Clark

“ A fact is like a sack — it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well. ”

- Brian Clough

“ The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack. ”

- Dave Freudenthal

“ The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ 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. ”

- Booker T. Washington
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