(118 quotes found)
“The tiny madman in his padded cell.”
Vladimir Nabokov
“There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“I think it's somewhat hypocritical for the governor to state that we're going to pad her political nest by getting teachers on board, but we're using dirty gambling money to do it. At some point in time we're going to have to realize that this is a business. It is a legal business.”
Alton Ashy
“We used a telephone and a scratch pad.”
Bill Myers
“There's a half-inch metal plate behind that pad, and he hit that pad with his middle knuckle and broke a bone in his hand. He hit it again, and blood started squirting out. Boy, I can tell you he had our attention from then on.”
Bob Lilly
“When they first handed me my helmet and pads, I jokingly asked, 'Do I have to wear these?' ... Without being up close to the game ? television is so far away ? is that you don't appreciate how physically fast and tough and strong and how much more they can impact the body because they have got shoulder pads and helmets. Ours is a different physically tough game.”
Ben Graham
“I take a pad and pencil and write down unusual things I see,”
Cassidy
“Taking dogs in certain areas you have to watch the pads of their feet.”
Char Quinn
“We made the assumption that the majority of our agents were still using the yellow pad approach to interviewing clients and gathering data. We did not want to trip over our data internally and thought if we could connect our existing software, utilize Web-enabled technology and compile it with the ability of office data entry we could automate workflow for agents in the field.”
Chris Rice
