Pair Quotes - page 18

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away. (Boris Yeltsin)
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
General Crook gave me a very agreeable present this afternoon - a pair of his old brigadier-general straps. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may. View quote
Jarvis Cocker
Pair up in threes. View quote
Yogi Berra
Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair. View quote
Yogi Berra
Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes. View quote
Rihanna
By definition, a pair of inherently unmeasurable, non-stationary systems, are coupled to produce an inherently measurable stationary system. View quote
Gordon Pask
And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare [But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair! ] It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress? Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume? :And how should I begin? I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. View quote
T. S. Eliot
It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family. View quote
William Faulkner
A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn. (William Faulkner)
Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers. View quote
Emma Watson
If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans. View quote
Emma Watson
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Women need food, water, and compliments That's right. And an occasional pair of shoes. View quote
Chris Rock
I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts. View quote
John Cena
In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. View quote
Tom Robbins
How do you accidentally kill a lord in his own manor?' with a knife to the chest... well a pair of knives actually, one can never be too careful. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure. View quote
Lucille Clifton
We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased. (Annie Besant)
He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room was tiny, and every morning he had to squeeze around the truth just to get to the bathroom. To reach the armoire to get a pair of underpants he had to crawl under the truth, praying it wouldn't choose that moment to sit on his face. At night, when he closed his eyes, he felt it looming above him. View quote
Nicole Krauss
You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids. View quote
Ayelet Waldman
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers. View quote
Ayelet Waldman
The Jews I knew growing up didn't do "do-it-yourself." When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers. View quote
Ayelet Waldman