Rough Quotes - Page 26

• I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

  Ishmael Reed

  White, Feminist, Racist

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect's legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional one

  Lefty Kreh

  Rivers, Lakes, Views

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• I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Brother, Jumping

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• Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Army, Taught

  "Michael Caine: A Life Large Enough For An Encore". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 30, 2010.

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• I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Army, Elderly

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.

  Dave Barry

  Night, Organization, Ideas

  Dave Barry (1986). “Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week”, p.25, Rodale

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• If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would just stop writing. I wouldn't find that interesting. I would feel that I had committed so many things to the paper that I couldn't easily undo because one thing leads to the next, the interconnectedness, the sequences would make it very hard to change something that simply didn't work.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Interesting, Starting Over

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

  Erin Wasson

  Girl, Curly Hair, Who I Am

  "Erin Wasson on Her Hair, Antique Shopping, and Cooking". Interview with Leah Melby Clinton, www.elle.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

  Karl Rove

  People, Life Is, Circumstances

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• I'm a girl in boy's clothing. I like to get a little rough. I prefer mud to makeup. That's me in a nutshell.

  Sarah Shahi

  Girl, Boys, Makeup

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• Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

  Blake Shelton

  Cowboy, Oklahoma, Guy

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• Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*

  William Shakespeare

  Sad Love, Nice, Views

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• Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember Dad explaining how the Egyptians made it from a river plant because they never invented paper. The stuff was so thick and rough, it made me wonder if the poor Egyptians had had to use toilet papyrus. If so, no wonder they walked sideways.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Cat, Rivers

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• She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

  John Cheever

  Night, Empty Life, Coffins

  John Cheever (2010). “Collected Stories”, p.97, Random House

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• BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank.

  Kay Ryan

  Distance, Waiting, Bait

  Kay Ryan (2010). “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Time has stopped; time is racing. Lochie's lips are rough yet smooth, hard yet gentle. His fingers are strong: I feel them in my hair and on my neck and down my arms and against my back. And I never want him to let me go.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Strong, Hair, Racing

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Happiness, Sadness, World

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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• Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.

  Andrew Jackson

  Real, Men, Thinking

  "The Life of Andrew Jackson". Vol. II, ch. XXVI. Book by James Parton, 1860.

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• Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Relationship, Rough Edges, Perfect

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.19, Nilgiri Press

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• I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. 'Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.' She looks up and gives me her full gaze. 'Don't be ridiculous,' she purrs, 'I wrote it.'

  Dilys Laing

  Book, Cat, Animal

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• Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Jewels, Curiosity

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• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

  Rumi

  Courage, Discipline, Gold

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit. Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Men, Ice Cream, Law

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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• I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

  Bob Newhart

  Laughter, Successful, Thinking

  "Bob Newhart Set For Las Vegas Show". The Smith Center interview, states.aarp.org. November 3, 2016.

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