“Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it thirty-six years and I'm used to it.”
Casey Stengel
“It's a classic rags-to-riches story of one of the most famous icons of our generation. You've got this woman on TV telling viewers how to turn doilies into wedding gowns who then walks into a corporate boardroom and kicks ass. With the right tone, it could be a lot of fun.”
Jeff Gaspin
“It's a classic rags-to-riches story of one of the most famous icons of our generation, ... You've got this woman on TV telling viewers how to turn doilies into wedding gowns who then walks into a corporate boardroom and kicks ass. With the right tone, it could be a lot of fun.”
“[Autobiographies] are all the same -- it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.”
Deborah Kerr
“The eight rounds made one ragged hole that you could cover up with your thumb.”
John Simpson
“She really is a rags-to-riches story. Carly had never bowled before a month into her sophomore year. I actually had to convince her to come out for the team, and now colleges are starting to take notice.”
Mark Hollatz
“A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.”
William Carlos Williams
