…Hardly. A ragged apron
…Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make. Eoin Colfer
Ragged
Like a lot of
Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. Elizabeth Warren
Humor implies a sure
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is a humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the space which separates the lofty from the lowly, the great from … Read more
Weston\\’s sensual texture or
Weston’s sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson’s implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium – and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended. Edmundo Desnoes
The sweet small clumsy
The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul. e. e. cummings
Though virtue give a
Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee. Francis Quarles
Later he saw Jesus
Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown. Flannery O’Connor
A sudden gust of
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another – as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red … Read more
Literature, like a gypsy,
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. Douglas William Jerrold
Constant use had not
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. Dorothy Parker