Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.
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.
It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.
Ambidextrous, adj. : Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand.
Never take your eyes off the ball - even when it's in the referee's pocket.
One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover. . . but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.
What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone.
The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas
Last month Mitt Romney raised $76 million. He found it in an old sport-coat pocket.
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.
I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul
Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.
I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.
When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.