“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
Albert Einstein
“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“If a ragnarök would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art — and I'd go back to trees..”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“That's not too shabby! (his catchphrase_”
David Sneddon
“Western wear is at its peak. I mix the traditional type of Western wear with what I call 'shabby chic cowgirl', and it's very popular.”
Bobbi Faria
“The guy on the other side is not too shabby,”
Drew Brees
“It's actually not too shabby. Relative to what I was looking for, and this doesn't include PEC (Solutions results), the U.S. was stronger and enterprise was stronger, and the gross margins were a little bit stronger.”
Steve Levy
