Purse Quotations

I always have at least four different lip products in my purse - I'm obsessed! I'm into L'Oreal Infallible Le Rouge 'Unending Kiss.' It's a very soft and natural pink color. I've also discovered Burt's Bees tinted lip balm in 'sweet violet.' I like it because it's very natural and feels good on my lips.

Sometimes if I have a big enough purse I'll bring my perfume or something. Right now I really like Beaute, it's by Johan B. and it's really nice, so I like that.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.

I have the emergency kit in my purse that has double-sided tape and Tylenol, and a small energy bar. I'm the one that has an extra lip gloss just in case.

Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spending money they haven't actually generated themselves.

If someone's intimidated by me, that's something they have to deal with. When I walk down the streets of New York and an old woman grabs her purse when I pass by, I'm not going to give it a whole lot of energy because I'm not in the wrong. I'm a millionaire, and I'm not thinking about grabbing an old woman's purse.

We have never denied a claim because we lacked the money. We want to give this money. We want to disperse the funds and pay the bills. We aren't trying to keep tight purse strings, if you will.

We decided, OK, we're going to look at the scene every time before we shoot it, ... And Vince and I went, and we looked, and literally down to the body language of when he hands her the pen, how she ducks in from the rain, how she turns to walk out the door, whether she turns to the left or turns to the right. I wanted to hold my purse the same way, to show how specific you can get, and how different it will be, according to what the mind of a person is.

What we couldn't accept was the new mandatory spending under this bill, which would open the federal purse to developers, ... Reforming the law should not be a euphemism for gutting the law, and that's exactly what the bill would do.

When their ship arrived at Sydney they gave the captain a purse of gold for his skill and seamanship in bringing them safe into port.

When I heard that the children were approaching the soldiers, I looked in the bottom of my purse and I had eight pens. I knew its something that's so abundant for all of us that I could easily make another child so happy.

She wanted to go to church that morning. And she'd put her great granddaughters Christmas gifts in the car. And I guess she'd already grabbed her purse and everything. She told me she turned the car around, and it just burst into flames.

More than 60 percent of our funding comes from local individuals, churches, businesses, organizations and the Bucyrus Area United Way and 40 percent comes from grants and fundraisers that we hold. Also, while we are a nonprofit organization and do not charge the parents of our children who use the program, we do ask them to make a pledge. One mom gives us the change out of the bottom of her purse a few times a month and that is fine. We want any child who wants to attend the program to be able to and that is another concern about having to move. With the decent amount of room we have now, we still have 20 children on a waiting list. If we have less room at a new location, that will mean less children can attend. We do not want to see that happen.

Nobody we've seen in the last 10 years has fallen as hard and tried to come back at this level. It makes sense to come back with a product that focuses on the court, where his performance message counts most. The core target audience here may be urban youth, but his image is still relevant, for example, to the mother of the shoe buyer, or anyone who holds the purse strings. Perception is what drives the market.

Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.

From now the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. It does not mean, of course, that the pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.

If we start pulling 40-45 Modified every week we will make this purse huge. We are prepared to make this the home of the Modified with the biggest weekly payback that anyone has seen.

If someone approaches you on the street or on the subway, and flatters you by saying, 'You've got the look that we are looking for,' hold on to your purse strings. You may be on your way to being a victim, not playing a role or posing for pictures.

He who knows how to beg may leave his purse at home

The purse increases year to year will not be as steep in the next six years as they have in the last six. Retirement benefits will actually go up more steeply, but our purses . . . will flatten a little bit.

I think it's like your life. We all have these perfect lives in our heads. And we think that's what everything is. . . . I guess (the perfect purse is) your mood for that day.

I think it's fair to say that the purse level increases year-to-year will not be as steep in the next six years.

It got nasty at times. In the end, it got made. I guess nobody wanted it to go to purse bid and have it be in somebody's backyard.

It isn't going to get any bigger. We're limited on space. Hey, Cocoa Beach is a small town. Now we're focusing on increasing the quality of surfing, boosting the prize purse and creating more family fun.

My purse was only $100,000 (US). If I paid each of them the required three per cent, I would have come away with nothing.

I think if we're to re-establish (the Congress') constitutional role, to control the purse strings, we've got to say that when it comes to local control versus a Washington straitjacket, the people of the United States want the education decisions made in the local school districts, not in the White House.

I think this is an acceptable compromise for the employers -- a compromise that as far as the financial capacity of the public purse is concerned goes to the limit of what is acceptable,

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

We are not going to budge, it is our prerogative on the power of the purse and we're not going to yield on that point. So there is a stalemate, ... We proposed to send the a bill which has more on education funding, more on health funding, but that one point, we think we're right and we're going to urge him to sign the bill.

When the tour first started (at La Costa), it was great value. You couldn't pay an ad agency for the kind of publicity it was generating. But over the years, costs kept going up because of purse structures, and eventually you reach a point of diminishing returns.

We would order the free negotiations period for 30 days, and if no agreement is reached, a purse offer must take place 15 days later, with the fight not later than 90 days after the biddings.

Find a way to make up with some of the senators who opposed him, because senators hold the purse strings

What is impacting the consumer is the cooler weather in several key regions, the increasing energy costs which take cash flow from the mall to the tank and a lack of exciting new fashion, ... We would also point out that a flattish market performance and news of layoffs are probably in the back of consumers' minds and causing a tightening of purse strings.

The private sector is also involved in this card since the electronic purse will be managed by major financial institutions following a tender that will be issued soon.

You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

During the storm we realized that Sherry left her purse and our five-month-old baby's diapers behind at the house,

The word we want to get out is that during January, because of New Year's resolutions, a lot of people go to fitness centers, which are crowded. People are advised if they have a wallet or purse to lock them into their trunk.

These allegations will be deeply embarrassing for BAE, a leading British company with ready access to Downing Street under this and previous governments and a company which receives significant subsidies from the public purse ... The government needs to send a strong message to British companies that corruption and bribery will not be permitted or excused.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

Now Congress has always exercised the power of the purse with respect to activities of that sort and regulated the funding for that type of activity. And that's, of course, always been the core of Congress' authority.

An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.

The breed becomes the latest 'thing' to have, and people snatch them up like they are a trendy new purse or style of coat.

YOUR friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.

You can't make a silk purse from a sows ear

It was terse and highly effective, written for people without much time by a person who controls the purse strings for the Republican Party.

Forever it seems like we've been waiting for the purse strings to open. They're not opening that wide, but they're moving in the right direction.

Consumers have tightened the purse strings and this could continue over the next few months approaching Christmas.

It was pretty obvious that somebody had already gone through the purse looking for cash. All I did was look at the checkbook to find the owner's address. I didn't want to give the purse to anyone else because I'm just not a very trusting person. So I took it to her house.

It takes two seconds. . . . No more fishing in your wallet or purse for credit cards.

It takes time though for owners and trainers to invest that additional purse money to start cultivating that better racing product.

They want a cheap purse, but they look like expensive ones. A purse we sell for $60, the real one could sell for $1,500.

I'm not as klutzy as I used to be . . . . I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on-camera because I do them in my life all the time.

I'm never without Nerds and peanut M&M's. I have a sweet tooth! I have an unlimited supply on hand at home, but the candy packs in my purse are not for sharing.

I photographed all kinds of sports - Formula 1, Formula Atlantic. And anybody who knows me knows that, from the day they invented video cameras, I used to lug them around when you had to carry the pack here and the big camera here, plus the diaper bag and a baby and the purse or whatever.

CLS decided for 2006 and beyond to significantly increase the purse for the USA Nationals and go unsanctioned to guarantee our fans will see all the best dirt late model drivers in the country. Plus, we're not increasing ticket prices.

Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee

A much better way has to be found in managing the public purse on the restoration of these buildings and there must be far better accountability.

No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Who steals my purse steals trash: 'tis something, nothin', 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands. But he who filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; / For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

It makes a man a coward. . . . It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.