"many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags."
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"People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth."
"It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions."
"I might not have the ability to ever carry a child and I have this damn bag for the time being – but I'm alive."
"Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own."
"I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist."
"What is wrong with me i just bought a bag of weed from an infant."
"My friend says touche way too much. He's a touche bag."
"I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that."
"My plan to put Social Security in an ironclad lockbox has gotten a lot of attention recently, and I'm glad about that. But I'm afraid that it's overshadowing some vitally important proposals. For instance, I'll put Medicaid in a walk-in closet. I'll put the Community Reinvestment Act in a secured gym locker. I'll put NASA funding in a hermetically sealed Ziploc bag."
"Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own."
"I like to carry a nice bag because then I can wear t-shirts and jeans all the time!"
"(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed."
"The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in."
"I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes."
"My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then."
"It was like I had evolved to a certain stage where I was stuck in this songwriter bag as an image. But basically at heart, I'm a rocker. And I still am. But I was caught up in the singer/songwriter bag and I wasn't really enjoying it."
"There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were... what was the word... deshabille. It meant untidy, but with bags and bags of style."
"Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left."
"I've eaten a bag of Green apples. Boarded the train, there's no getting off"