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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.' -- James Naismith
They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief -- Douglas Adams
When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family â?? real silly high-concept productions like, 'Attack of the Killer Handkerchief.' I guess I knew even then that I wanted to be an actress. -- Lana Parrilla
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief. -- Anne Sullivan
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. -- Frederick Buechner
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. -- Hilary Mantel
I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.' -- Jude Law
Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing. Women will wear their boyfriends' T-shirts, and throughout tales in history men have held on to their lover's handkerchief. -- Helen Fisher
Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume. -- Greg Lynn
A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented. -- Rachel Maddow
Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative. -- Herb Caen
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation. -- Robert Schumann
Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads. -- Randy Houser
You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket. -- Jude Law
A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief. -- Gail Carriger
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief. -- Anne Sullivan
I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. -- Edgar Allan Poe
You might be a redneck if your handkerchief doubles as your shirt sleeve. -- Jeff Foxworthy
All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief. -- LeRoy Pope Walker
He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. -- Cyril Connolly
Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb. -- Haruki Murakami
A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. -- Louis J. Camuti
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief. -- Margaret Mitchell
Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties? -- Brad Meltzer
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. -- Mark Twain
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one. -- Compton Mackenzie
He produced a handkerchiefâ??crisply foldedâ??and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. Sheâ??d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief. -- Cassandra Clare
Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief. -- Charles Dickens
Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring. -- Carl Sandburg
Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another! -- Georgette Heyer
If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.' -- Jeremy Clarkson

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