Bag Quotations

'Five, Six, Seven, Nate!' opens on my 13-year-old protagonist packing up a duffel bag and bidding his Midwestern town goodbye, heading off to start rehearsals for his New York City debut in 'E.T.: The Musical.'

I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.

If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it.

I'm the breadwinner. I kill the spiders. Actually I don't kill them. I put them in a plastic bag and take them outside. I take out the trash cans. I change the light bulbs. I lug the 50 lbs. suitcases down the stairs.

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.

In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer - giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc.

Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do!

I tend to pack light but still keep a large bag because I love to shop. For each destination I travel to, I like to buy something that the country or city is known for such as olive oil, truffle, jewelry, etc. I also like to buy perfumes because the smell brings me back to the memory of my travels.

It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!'

Every single person who has ever walked down the street with a FEED bag has purchased it. I think that's really relevant because it means that you have got to make that choice to spend that money on that product.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.

I love sushi. Once on Valentine's Day, someone I was dating rocked up at the airport to pick me up with a bag of salmon because I love it so much.

I like salty, creamy foods. I could sit down with a bag of chips and French onion dip and go to town! That would be on my last-supper list.

I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.

There's something to be said for a disregard of fashion, but it has to be a carefully curated disregard. It works best, I think, on someone under 18. After the age of, say, 40, you can end up looking like a bag lady.

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.

A Birkin bag is a very good rain hat; just put everything else in a plastic bag.

I might be eating something, and the bag opens in a cool way, and I'm like, 'I wanna put that in the song.'

The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some of which hew to the realistic parameters and paradigms embraced by science, others of which partake more of fantasy and magic.

I love unsalted almonds, especially if I'm about to do a photo shoot or compete. There's no mess, and they're so easy to pack in a little Ziploc bag to take with you. It's my number one go-to snack!

I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.

To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

I never have more than one bag at a time. I think one is already quite enough. Also, I hate changing bags, so I never have the thing of having ten bags. Any bag that's with me will take the same course as I will. It will take the same airplanes and will be squashed in the same way and will be used as a cushion in the airports.

Whether it's a canvas tote or Givenchy, a day bag you love is essential. It doesn't have to be a fashion It bag of the season, either.

I used to carry a bag of records down to my friend's house every Friday, and we'd sit down and play all the records I loved, and we'd look at the album covers.

Invest in a couple of really good things - a great, classic coat; a good pair of shoes; and a timeless bag - then fill in the gaps with lower-priced pieces.

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

My grandmother used to say to sneak up behind someone with a paper bag and pop it.

My goal isn't to have everyone who attends the concert walk out and be foster parents themselves -- that's not realistic. The goal is to plant the seed in these people, and give them a bag of seeds to go out and plant in their community. They may not want to be foster parents, but they may know someone who would.

Old air bag, new air bag, no air bag children are safer in back.

Occasionally we had to carry a body bag out of there. Some were heavy like a full body and some weren't.

One Italian person is apparently also among the remains still to be identified. There is a lot of confusion because in some cases pieces of human remains are in one bag or two.

More than ever, Apple can make a difference in any organization, including an enterprise situation where there is a mixed bag of operating systems .... We really feel like it's a new era.

More and more consumers are telling us that air bag notification, emergency assistance, remote door unlock, stolen vehicle location assistance and remote vehicle diagnostics are key to their purchase decisions.

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

My foot was on the bag and he said I wasn't on the base,

I got rid of my Boston bag as quick as I could, ... I had them put it away. I've still got some stuff in there.

I don't have too many speeches in my bag for a team that's 1-9. I'm trying to make them up as we go along.

I'd just came back from Florida two days before, sometimes you don't have time to get everything unpacked, ... I didn't put the shoulder bag away ... and I got caught.

We made a lot of mistakes as pitchers last year. We didn't cover the bag at first a few times, threw the ball to the wrong bases. I think we all need to make sure we're focused this spring on doing the things we need to get better at. They're small, but obviously very huge parts of the game.

There are times I'll come back to the bench and my bag is all ripped open with one piece of candy left, so the other guys get their fair share.

When we see a bag lady ... on the street, in that moment in our lives we try to get as far away from that person as possible, ... But the truth is, that person is me. That person is all of us, to a certain extent.

License buyers have asked for - and we attempted to provide - more advance notice of season dates to help them select their vacation days. However, since deer harvest data will not be available until mid-March and bear and wild turkey harvest results were just made available, the Board and staff concluded more time was needed before taking final action on the 2006-07 seasons and bag limits.

Mr. Secretary, you're dissembling, non-responsive, ... Anybody would say putting a bag over someone's head for 72 hours -- which is sensory deprivation.

Most people, after they bowl, take the ball off the rack, throw it in their bag and go home.

May a mouse never leave you'r meal bag with a tear in it's eye.

She gave him what money she had, in a small bag that she kept it in. She said not to hurt them, to leave them alone.

She picks up the book bag and a BB pistol falls out. He grabs it.

She probably was standing in the hall, acting like she was on a cell phone or looking at the bulletin boards, and when she saw me step out, she came in, grabbed inside the bag and walked off with the wallet.

She died of asphyxia, from that garment bag on her head. Did the state prove to you Roger put that garment bag on her head and suffocated her?

She does not get to wear those any more. They were taken off her dead body, put into a bag and stored with the San Diego Police Department evidence lab, because of what he did.

She doesn't have to fumble for her key. She likes it just as a safety element, too. If you put your key in your bag and place it in the trunk, the trunk will automatically open when it senses the key is in there. It's a pretty nice safety feature.

She has her little bean bag under the table. One other lady, she had two maltese dogs and she had a child's playpen for them.

Let's just say it's not something I use in my everyday bag of tricks.

So I reached into my bag of tricks and looked for what was funny to me, what would enable me to have a good time and have a lot of fun with this guy.

Selling his new book about this phony baloney war on Christmas, John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nut bag terrorists think.

Seventy-two hours without regular sleep, sensory deprivation -- which would be a bag over your head for 72 hours -- do you think that's humane?

She's a little under the weather. She had a sore throat and people were trying to find her some cough drops and they finally found some. I didn't realize they had to go to Wal-Mart to get them, but they brought her a whole bag of 'em!

I hate that there'll be moments in my day and I'll be patting down my legs trying to find my phone. I hate how anxious it makes me feel when I don't have it. When I go on holiday, or I go back to Australia, I put my phone in my bag and I don't worry about it; I think differently and I feel less stressed.

I have a to-go bag that I keep ready with my uniform and supplies. You hope the call doesn't come - you hope that your skills won't be needed again.

I have a random array of ball markers in my bag and don't use any specific one. Many are the plastic kind you find at almost any golf course.

He learned supermarkets not from Wall Street but from starting as a bag boy.

Fundamentally, it's a shift from Office as a bag of tools to a platform that companies use to run their business.

Getting your mind right means ... everyone in your business - every person who will be engaged in hunting your Elephant, every executive, manager, accountant, service representative, delivery person, mechanic, creative writer, and board member your Elephant might come in contact with. Bag the Elephant!

I feel like when I carry a bigger bag, it looks like it's a huge bag because I'm really tiny. But I do think it's important to have the space that you need, because we throw everything in our bags at all times. I think every woman does.

I get more out of it than they get. They get a bag of food, but I get to feel good.

If an unopened bag of potato chips or something happened to float by we'd grab it because we just didn't know how long we'd be there,

If it's placed in the blue bag we can bring it to Cherokee for no charge.

But we were at the funeral. We scattered a trash bag full of his ashes!

But that is a mixed bag of blessings,

I have a few customers who have two or three hundred bags. When you see a lady carrying a little dog bag or a little cat bag or an egg, it makes you happy.

He's a big guy, you know? ... I talked to him the last 18 holes, 'Come on, man, come on. Why you too slow?' 'Your bag too heavy, Uncle.' I said, 'You eat too much every night.' I'll never forget that one.

We've established a responsive and customer-friendly (claims) process. We have been working with airlines to find an equitable way to address the claims. When a checked bag gets processed, it now touches many hands. It's difficult to assess responsibility.

I look forward to this every year. ... It's always exciting for me. All my family is involved, and we love the bag pipes and parades.

I advised him not to wait until he's over the hill. I also told him don't do it because there's a big bag of gold, do it because your heart is in it.

Hunters felt the need to improve hunting prospects. We're the only state that I'm aware of in the Mississippi Flyway to accept a lower bag limit than the feds offered.

He used various techniques, including having other people distract the employees. He'd then go in and disconnect the register, put it in a trash bag and then leave the stores.

Having a home, husband, and child ought to be enough for any woman's life. I mean, that's what we are meant for, isn't it? But still I think every day is a lost day. As if only half of me is alive. The other half is pressed down in a bag and suffocated.

If someone is making one or two purchases, the die-cast is usually one of them. The die-cast, the hat and T-shirt are something you can't necessarily purchase at Wal-Mart, and it's something they can put in their bag and carry around.

If the bag had, in fact, contained the explosive device that was anticipated, the bomb could have detonated several times over in the hour that the bag sat there.

He has excellent control. The ball spirals off his foot. His golf bag is full of clubs, too. He can go right and left equally well. He can hit that Aussie-style end-over-end in close. He can angle it out of bounds. He can do a lot of things.

He held that IV bag up for two hours straight. He just stood there with a blank look on his face.

Hopefully, they're in a paper bag or a shoe box somewhere. But if you don't have the actual receipts, payments will be noted on your bank statements. Most banks print out copies of the checks you've written during the year.

Whatever happens, a win always helps. That would be the biggest thing for us. We're trying to bag as many wins as possible before the Big Ten matches. That will always help the team and help everyone individually.

There is no doubt we will be sailing Alfa Romeo right at the limit of her ability. That means there is always the risk of something breaking or the technology failing, whether it's a sunfish hitting a rudder, a plastic bag blocking the cooling inlet of the engine or something simply breaking under the strain.

Just the opposite, ... I think we should do a lot of stuff. I don't think going in the bag is going to help us. Because it doesn't matter what we do ? we still have to execute and do it with discipline. It's not what we're doing. It's how we're doing what we're doing. Getting conservative about it is not going to help us at all.

Just the opposite. I think we should do a lot of stuff. I don't think going in the bag is going to help us. Because it doesn't matter what we do we still have to execute and do it with discipline. It's not what we're doing. It's how we're doing what we're doing. Getting conservative about it is not going to help us at all.

My perfect bag would be practical but also have the stylish element to it; it would be bold and colourful. I would actually be able to open and close it. That would be a first.

I went past the bag and turned back, that's when I felt it.

My mom was one of the original designers for Coach in the eighties, and she designed some classics, including the City Bag. It's the only bag I use!

Little Nelson was tied in a plastic bag with two other dogs and left in front of the animal control center overnight. When they got there one of the dogs in the plastic bag had died.

I said, 'No,' a few times. I could see he was rounding the bag -- and he was flying -- and I knew he was going. I think the ball he thought was a home run bothered him, and he tried to do a little bit more.

Pauline Kael is the Rambo of film critics... a demented bag lady.

I think everyone at school experiences some form of bullying. With kids at school, it can be anything - it can be your shoes or the wrong bag or anything. If you are big like I am, you are always going to be a target. So I decided at school to make myself an even bigger target, if you like: to make myself as big as I could be.

My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.

Juries are being presented a real mixed bag of evidence, where on one hand the person before them bears some direct responsibility for the crime that is committed, but on the other hand they're hearing evidence that this person was operating under either unlawful orders or mixed messages about what sort of job they were supposed to be doing.

I thought it's two birds with one stone ? to lose weight and to prove a point for the little fat people, ... Just because they accidentally put an apple pie in my bag instead of my apple dippers doesn't mean I'm going to say, 'Oh, I can eat the apple pie.'