#pocket

The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#back #berlin #black #defence #defensive

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#borrow #down #english #just #languages

I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#children #come #help #i #job

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#else #everyone #friendly #good #guys

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#learning #like #merely #more #never

People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#embarrassed #guy #hands #his #i

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years. ↗

— Steve Waugh

#been #charm #few #good #good luck

Sa nakikita ko sa’yo, nauntog ka na at na-realize mo nang infatuated ka lang sa kanya. Alam mo kasi Jelle, kapag nagkagusto ka sa isang lalaki o kapag mahal mo ang isang lalaki, wala ang standard-standard na ‘yan. ↗

— Marione Ashley

#phr #pocketbook #love

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. ↗

— Woody Allen

#gold #grandfather #his #i #me

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention. ↗

— Mary Austin

#first #hunter #i #intention #man