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  • I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years. -- Hilary Swank
  • If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked. -- Dolly Parton
  • It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. -- Jim Cooper
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  • If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored. -- Andre Benjamin
  • I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers. -- Maisie Williams
  • I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science. -- Mary Roach
  • You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night. -- Gabrielle Union
  • We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses. -- Terence Fisher
  • Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere. -- James Lovegrove
  • How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues. -- Claire Cameron
  • For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark. -- Bettie Page
  • Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. -- Carl Sagan
  • We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. -- E. M. Forster
  • You can literally walk into my apartment and sit on a hat; you can step on a hat; you can probably open up the refrigerator and find a hat tucked under some rotten food. I have a lot of hats. -- Judah Friedlander
  • Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. -- Jean Baudrillard
  • In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock. -- Jill Lepore
  • As a child, I copied Tenniel's illustrations from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' obsessively, particularly his drawing of the white rabbit in waistcoat and frockcoat, umbrella tucked under one arm and a fob watch in paw, a look of suppressed panic in his eye. -- Chris Riddell
  • Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped. -- Regina Brett
  • Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head. -- Danny Huston
  • Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever. -- Malcolm Turnbull
  • My favorite season was when I wrote every morning for three or four hours, then I would go and teach my classes at school, come home to my family and hang out with them, have dinner, and then, after everyone was tucked in, I would prepare for my classes the next day. -- Cynthia Voigt
  • I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. -- Alice Walker
  • Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead. -- Chuck Schumer
  • The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy. -- Jim Lovell
  • I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society. -- Nicolas Cage
  • And another day is tucked under my wing. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. -- Jonathan Swift
  • I tucked him in with his stuffed-animal pet dog"?cleverly named Dog-Dog, by the way. -- Jordan Sonnenblick
  • My face has been tucked in more times than a bedsheet at the Holiday Inn. -- Joan Rivers
  • Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking. -- Gerald Stanley Lee
  • If your shirt isn't tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt. -- Nick Offerman
  • Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes. -- Mark Twain
  • My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. -- W. S. Merwin
  • One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm. -- Barbara Hambly
  • Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in. -- Arthur Guiterman
  • It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific. -- Tina Fey
  • Faith is, believing there is still a star out there to wish on, just for you, tucked away behind dark clouds. -- Anthony Liccione
  • An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten. -- Constance Rourke
  • Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake. -- Nora Roberts
  • When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples. -- George Horace Lorimer
  • Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it. -- Angelina Love
  • We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly. -- Oliver DeMille
  • We thought, you know, this will just be kind of low-key. And no one will ever know we're here, and we're tucked back in. -- Kurt Meyer
  • I don't like to generalize, but if you see a guy with his shirt tucked into his shorts, he's probably killed three or four children. -- Dana Gould
  • With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century. -- Ray Bradbury
  • Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister. -- Katherine Mansfield
  • There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • His leap was exact, mathematical. The initial arc - head tucked between taut arms that spread out gradually like wings - was as graceful as a swan dive. -- Juan Filloy
  • If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed. -- Temple Grandin
  • I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years. Right up until someone kicked me and said "Gotcha! -- James Patterson
  • Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked. -- Dolly Parton
  • [Nancy Reagan] took that career, that obviously mattered to her, and just tucked it away in a box, because she thought, "That's over with now. I'm going to make wifehood my career." -- Cynthia Nixon
  • Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there. -- Mitch Albom
  • The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund. -- Dan Ariely
  • Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe. -- Naomi Mitchison
  • If you have unfilled dreams and visions of greater prosperity and success tucked in a corner of your mind, don't keep them there any longer. Dare to bring them out and dust them off. -- Catherine Ponder
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