Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that. — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he… — Annie Oakley Copy Share Image
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“For though my rhyme be ragged, Tattered and jagged, Rudely rain-beaten, Rusty and moth-eaten, If ye take well therewith, It hath in… — John Skelton Copy Share Image
Part of me likes a more ragged, jagged guitar sound or performance, but our work might not have been as innovative had… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man is an island, but the water is deep And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep To… — Joey Tempest Copy Share Image
Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
“To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Thou art a very ragged Wart. William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2 — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! — Alexander Blok Copy Share Image
The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the… — Mary Elizabeth Lease Copy Share Image
All my friends with babies or husbands or full time jobs are running ragged looking after everyone and everything around them, but… — Gemma Atkinson Copy Share Image
The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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