“Now that my ladder's goneI must lie down where all ladders startIn the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.”
William Butler Yeats
“One must give up a little character, the main source of beauty, at a beauty shop. Character is important because it remains as a woman's youth fades. Conduct, integrity and self-love can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful all the days of her life.”
Bobby W. Miller
“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
“A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.”
William Carlos Williams
“All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.”
Bible
“As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.”
Scott Joplin
