You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.
The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.
Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.
The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.
The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.
Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.
I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to. . . go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children. ' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.
Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.
So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.
Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.
Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled
Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'. . . Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'. . . Turn the other way and do the 'Slow drag'. . . Now take your lady to the world's fair (. . . ) And do the 'rag time dance. '
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.