“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
“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
“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
“That's not too shabby! (his catchphrase_”
David Sneddon
“If me or one of my (North) teammates couldn't win it, I was glad to see 'Shabby' win it. He had a great first half. We did a better job on him in the second.”
Javario Byrd
“Not too shabby. Getting out of that first inning was huge for him, because you could see he was nervous, but he got that big double-play ball and then he settled in.”
Alan Trammell