“I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”
T.S. Eliot
“If this [port] deal gets scuttled, all those questions are going to be on the table.”
Bruce Josten
“A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.”
William Carlos Williams
“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
“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
“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
“Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should”
Lord Chesterfield
