#pockets

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria. ↗

— Mario Batali

#austria #croatia #food #germany #great

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#burden #continue #does #dollars #economy

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face. ↗

— Juvenal

#face #pockets #sing #thief #traveller

It's diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#diamonds #macaroni #next #pockets #week

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#decision #individual #join #left #money

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#cut #giving #instead #people #pockets

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#always #ample #anytime #aside #balanced

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets. ↗

— Gary Hart

#get #government #hands #off #out

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified. ↗

— Anjelica Huston

#dublin #find #more #more and more #old

Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it. “But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6) ↗

— Jay Rayner

#apron #courses #crucial-points #cutlery #deafening-moments