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They are trying to get those homes back, so they can get the money and put it in their pocket. – Betty McCray	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It ended up, I believe, saving the taxpayers money and probably putting more money in the plaintiff's pocket. – Matt McNicholas	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
For the majority of older adults, as an out of pocket expense, it really is second to a mortgage or a car, one of the most expensive purchases you can make in your lifetime, this shows we really should be treating hearing loss. – Jennifer Deal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Medicare pays for 80 percent, but 20 percent out of pocket. – Justin Griner	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I remember he got on the roof and literally put the roof together on his own time and out of his own pocket. – Kwabena Nixon	Found on CNN 9 years ago
A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.	added by anonymous 9 years ago
After you download the app, as soon as you get on campus it can recognize if you’re in an academic building. You open up the app and lock your phone to start earning these pocket points, as soon as you’re out of class, you unlock your phone and redeem the points. – Rob Richardson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We want this government which led all of us, Jews and Arabs, to a dead end, not to continue, but we are not in Herzog's pocket. – Ayman Odeh	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Now, every single time I have my iPhone, instead of putting it in my pocket, I put it in the seat next to me because of this case, my wife does the same thing, and so does everyone else at the (law) firm. It's a little scary. – Mike Della	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I was trying to get it out of my pocket, it started burning right through my pants. It was burning my leg, and I had to get my pants off somehow. – Erik Johnson of Lindenhurst	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If you just look at our out-of-pocket expenses, things we've paid to contractors, third parties, it's around $ 230,000. It doesn't take into consideration management time or damage to the resort's reputation, our accountants and attorneys are saying that this could be up to an additional $ 200,000. – Barry Owens	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Sitting around with $25 billion in your pocket getting zero percent on it just doesn't make any sense to me. – Gary Bradshaw	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Every once in a while we'd slip a trading card in a guys pocket that said, 'Change your jacket, you smell,'. – Joe Ocrant	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We spent a lot of time with industry experts and consumers testing various product ideas and this one, caffeinated strips, always came back as No. 1, people just love the idea of being able to have products that contain moderate amounts of caffeine right in your pocket, on the go. – Olga Rusnak	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He used to have the image of a survivor who can handle problems and solve them, despite all difficulties. He was seen as the lucky guy. But now we are in probably the worst crisis since the Soviet Union collapsed, putin has demonstrated he has no plan. There is nothing in his pocket. – Vladimir Milov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You have the dark room in your pocket. – Le Govic	Found on CNN 9 years ago
What happens is that somebody may have a tooth in their pocket and reach in the pocket to throw all the change in the bucket, we get that with car keys and house keys. It happens more often than you think. – Rick Carroll	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We were lucky, because the water made a hole in our wall that created a pocket for the water to pass through and not collapse it, we managed to get to the second floor -- if it wasn't for that hole, it would have collapsed and we'd have been swept away. – Ramil Arania	Found on CNN 9 years ago
You always know when Danny (D'Angelo) is coming. You hear him first (because of the Tic Tacs in his pocket) and then you smell him (because he uses way too much cologne!) – John McNerney	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul. People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you're alone or with friends, it's a joy for all the senses. What lovelier sight is there than that double row of white cigarettes, lined up like soldiers on parade and wrapped in silver paper? I love to touch the pack in my pocket, open it, savor the feel of the cigarette between my fingers, the paper on my lips, the taste of tobacco on my tongue. I love to watch the flame spurt up, love to watch it come closer and closer, filling me with its warmth. – Luis Buñuel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. – Karl Kraus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. – John Adams, Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography "John Adams" by David McCullough (p. 19)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket. – Kin [F. McKinney] Hubbard	added by anonymous 13 years ago
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. – Raymond Chandler	added by anonymous 14 years ago

They are trying to get those homes back, so they can get the money and put it in their pocket.

– Betty McCray

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It ended up, I believe, saving the taxpayers money and probably putting more money in the plaintiff's pocket.

– Matt McNicholas

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

For the majority of older adults, as an out of pocket expense, it really is second to a mortgage or a car, one of the most expensive purchases you can make in your lifetime, this shows we really should be treating hearing loss.

– Jennifer Deal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Medicare pays for 80 percent, but 20 percent out of pocket.

– Justin Griner

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I remember he got on the roof and literally put the roof together on his own time and out of his own pocket.

– Kwabena Nixon

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

After you download the app, as soon as you get on campus it can recognize if you’re in an academic building. You open up the app and lock your phone to start earning these pocket points, as soon as you’re out of class, you unlock your phone and redeem the points.

– Rob Richardson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We want this government which led all of us, Jews and Arabs, to a dead end, not to continue, but we are not in Herzog's pocket.

– Ayman Odeh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Now, every single time I have my iPhone, instead of putting it in my pocket, I put it in the seat next to me because of this case, my wife does the same thing, and so does everyone else at the (law) firm. It's a little scary.

– Mike Della

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I was trying to get it out of my pocket, it started burning right through my pants. It was burning my leg, and I had to get my pants off somehow.

– Erik Johnson of Lindenhurst

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If you just look at our out-of-pocket expenses, things we've paid to contractors, third parties, it's around $ 230,000. It doesn't take into consideration management time or damage to the resort's reputation, our accountants and attorneys are saying that this could be up to an additional $ 200,000.

– Barry Owens

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Sitting around with $25 billion in your pocket getting zero percent on it just doesn't make any sense to me.

– Gary Bradshaw

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Every once in a while we'd slip a trading card in a guys pocket that said, 'Change your jacket, you smell,'.

– Joe Ocrant

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We spent a lot of time with industry experts and consumers testing various product ideas and this one, caffeinated strips, always came back as No. 1, people just love the idea of being able to have products that contain moderate amounts of caffeine right in your pocket, on the go.

– Olga Rusnak

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He used to have the image of a survivor who can handle problems and solve them, despite all difficulties. He was seen as the lucky guy. But now we are in probably the worst crisis since the Soviet Union collapsed, putin has demonstrated he has no plan. There is nothing in his pocket.

– Vladimir Milov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You have the dark room in your pocket.

– Le Govic

Found on CNN
9 years ago

What happens is that somebody may have a tooth in their pocket and reach in the pocket to throw all the change in the bucket, we get that with car keys and house keys. It happens more often than you think.

– Rick Carroll

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We were lucky, because the water made a hole in our wall that created a pocket for the water to pass through and not collapse it, we managed to get to the second floor -- if it wasn't for that hole, it would have collapsed and we'd have been swept away.

– Ramil Arania

Found on CNN
9 years ago

You always know when Danny (D'Angelo) is coming. You hear him first (because of the Tic Tacs in his pocket) and then you smell him (because he uses way too much cologne!)

– John McNerney

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul. People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you're alone or with friends, it's a joy for all the senses. What lovelier sight is there than that double row of white cigarettes, lined up like soldiers on parade and wrapped in silver paper? I love to touch the pack in my pocket, open it, savor the feel of the cigarette between my fingers, the paper on my lips, the taste of tobacco on my tongue. I love to watch the flame spurt up, love to watch it come closer and closer, filling me with its warmth.

– Luis Buñuel

added by anonymous
10 years ago

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

– Karl Kraus

added by anonymous
13 years ago

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

– John Adams, Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography "John Adams" by David McCullough (p. 19)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket.

– Kin [F. McKinney] Hubbard

added by anonymous
13 years ago

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

– Raymond Chandler

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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