I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten.… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars?… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
I’m not interested in changing either my suit or my car or whatever with every change in fashion. That’s irrelevant. I don’t… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“It’s great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth. — Thomas Lansing Masson Copy Share Image
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image