I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?” — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise. — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star. — Marin Ireland Copy Share Image
There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta,… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number,… — Sophie Tucker Copy Share Image
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science…It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“There are very few high-quality garments being produced at all. A very, very, very small amount. So small that most people never… — Elizabeth Cline Copy Share Image
We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky Copy Share Image
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
To us, it might look like just a rag. But to the brave, embattled men of the fort, it was more than… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image