Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
Believe me, I'm in no shape, fashion, or form a star or anything like that right now. I can walk down the… — Kevin michael Copy Share Image
Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy -… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child,… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict. — John Milton Copy Share Image
In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine... — Celia Rees Copy Share Image
A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Is she become a rag doll? Are the wolves become children? It seems quite possible, there on the twilight fringes of dying.… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You … Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it!… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew,… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons… — John Donne Copy Share Image
He (Pres. Bush) rightly decided that it was far better to return all Haitians than to encourage, deliberately or not, tens of… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men,… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image