Pad Quotes - page 4

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. (Virginia Woolf)
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. View quote
William Gibson
Often on the painted stair, As I passed abstractedly, Velvet footsteps, two and three, Padded gravely after me. - There was nothing, nothing there, Nothing there to see. View quote
Vita Sackville-West
The reality is that many businesses, large and small, have long used undocumented workers to pad their bottom lines. Just consider the agricultural workforce. In California alone-where the $45 billion-a-year agricultural sector supplies more than half the produce consumed in the United States-between 40 and 50 percent of the workforce is made up of undocumented workers. No wonder California has been the site of some of the most important immigrant labor struggles, brought to the consciousness of many Americans in the 1960s and 1970s by the great United Farm Workers leader, Cesar Chavez. That struggle continues today. View quote
Cesar Chavez
All right, Marius-I get the message. In fact I intercepted it, parsed it, filtered it, decrypted it with the appropriate onetime pad and wrote a fucking two-hundred-page report on it. Satisfied?” "I'm never satisfied, Mishenka. It just isn't in my nature. View quote
Alastair Reynolds