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Letter "P" » pockets
«Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets»
Author: Eddy Peters
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Language,
Words
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alleys, borrow, chases, English, English language, Head down, hits, languages, Other languages, pockets, the English
«May you always have work for your hands to do. May your pockets hold always a coin or two. May the sun shine bright on your windowpane. May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you. And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.»
«I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets»
«It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.»
«Money is always there but the pockets change»
«I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.»
Author: John Updike
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«January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle
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anxious, forehead, January, month, pockets, producer, producers, theatrical, theatricals, theatrical producer, The producer, The Producers
«Our last garment is made without pockets.»
«Maybe it?s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and images intrude. They have no place in what you are writing, and so if you are young, you write them in a notebook for future use. And you never use them because they are sparkling and alive like colored pebbles on a wave-washed shore. It?s impossible not to fill your pockets with them. But when you get home, they are dry and colorless. I?d like to pin down a few while they are still wet.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
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Research,
Writing
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Bright Future, colored, colorless, intrude, intrudes, intrude into, intrude on, intruding, notebook, notebooks, ordered, pebbles, piece of work, piece of writing, pin, pin down, pockets, sparkle, sparkling, washed
«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.»
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