Racks Quotes

• If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

  Ian Anderson

  Jesus, Blue, Denim

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• I did find some time to go to a record store and check out "Headstrong" actually in the racks. It was pretty cool; I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!

  Ashley Tisdale

  Mom, Cds, Sitting

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• And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion.

  Dylan Thomas

  Running, Lying, Hands

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Muertes Y Entradas [1934-1953]: Antología Poética”, p.88, HUERGA Y FIERRO EDITORES

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• Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete - or businessperson - enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you're squatting 500 for reps and you can't get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that's set one.

  Tom Platz

  Workout, Attitude, Fall

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• Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.

  J. K. Rowling

  Couple, Brain, Should

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• Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

  Francoise Giroud

  Dresses, Planning, Fit

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• The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

  Larry McMurtry

  Bookstores

  "Novelist Larry McMurtry’s Last Kind Words". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2014.

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• Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Mind, Bombs

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.318, Macmillan

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• Life is too short for a half-rack.

  Mike Mills

  Life Is Too Short, Half, Life Is

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• I went to Seattle as just another geek in the food chain, thinking, "Well, in my own puny little way, I'd rather be a part of history than just sit and watch it on TV." So, the fact that so many people are starting to ask the right questions and rack their brains for solutions does give me hope.

  Jello Biafra

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• I always hate having to use the equipment after these huge buff guys who move, like, the entire rack of plates. Then I get on, and move two plates, you know like: CLANK! CLANK! "I'm the two plate guy!" CLANK! CLANK! "Anyone wanna spot me?" CLANK! CLANK!

  Brian Regan

  Hate, Moving, Two

  TV Series "Comedy Central Presents" ("Brian Regan", 2000), www.imdb.com. (1998–).

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• Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.

  Susan Cheever

  Sex, Vegas, Addiction

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is lifted from its rack out into the morning. On another rack the oars hang ready to be greased and slipped into the locks. Then, awakened to the river and the feel of the oars, the oarsmen blend in fulfillment of the shell. The symphony is not of competition. It is the synchronous motion over water, the harmonic flexing of wood and muscle, where each piece of equipment and every oarsman is both essential to, and the limit of motion itself.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Morning, Symphony, Rivers

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• Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

  Edgar Wallace

  Fear, Snakes, Tyrants

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• We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor
  by giving each other motorized tie racks.

  Bill McKibben

  Christmas, Ties, Giving

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• Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
  Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
  In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd,
  Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
  And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
  The speed that spins the future and the past:
  And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
  Awful eternity shall reign alone.

  Petrarch

  Time, Pain, Fate

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

  André Aciman

  Mistake, Self, Numbers

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• Isabelle's clothes looked ridiculous. Clary had to roll the legs on the jeans up several times before she stopped tripping on them, and the plunging neckline of the red tank top only emphasized her lack of what Eric would have called a "rack.

  Cassandra Clare

  Jeans, Clothes, Tanks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together is to tell you that when she turned to lift the large, delicate cello onto the overhead rack, I saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Eye, Together

  Billy Collins (2012). “Nine Horses”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

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• That’s what I thought. When I looked that human in the face. I figured he was either a genius or crazy.” Artemis’s cool eyes glared at them from the screen. “So which is it?” asked Foaly. “A genius or crazy?” Root grabbed his tri-barreled blaster from the gun rack. “What’s the difference?

  Eoin Colfer

  Crazy, Eye, Gun

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• A new study says by 2030 household robots will dominate every phase of our lives. The study says the No. 1 field for robot growth is medicine. That makes sense. Robots already perform well in surgery. That is, until there is a power outage. Then it's just a coat rack leaning over you as you bleed to death.

  Craig Ferguson

  Medicine, Over You, Growth

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• You might be a redneck if your father encourages you to quit school because Larry has an opening on the lube rack.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Father, School, Redneck

  Jeff Foxworthy (2006). “No Redneck Left Behind: Facing the Real World After Gettin' Your Diploma”, p.43, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

  Richard Steele

  Lying, Men, Needs

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.103

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• There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel... Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any argument for investigating the divine authority of those books?

  John Adams

  Christian, Country, Inspiration

  Thomas Jefferson, John Adams (2006). “"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values”

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