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  • I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses. -- Cesar Romero
  • I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. -- Marie Windsor
  • I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield. -- Marie Windsor
  • I'm 5 foot 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield -- Marie Windsor
  • George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies. -- Cesar Romero
  • Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter. -- Marie Windsor
  • When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole. -- Louis Zamperini
  • Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. -- Ben Hecht
  • I started using a raft at my shows in 2009, and in 2011, I started caking people. -- Steve Aoki
  • In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. -- H. L. Mencken
  • A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish. -- Ben Elliot
  • I was the feral, mud-bathing, tree-climbing variety of child. Why would I want to read about pirates when I could build a raft and terrorise sheep along the riverbanks? -- Sarah Hall
  • I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it. -- George Lucas
  • People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on. -- Joanne Harris
  • It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role. -- Kyra Sedgwick
  • When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish. -- Cate Blanchett
  • The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion). -- Martin Rees
  • There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
  • It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft. -- James Houston
  • I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line. -- Robert Mankoff
  • Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy. -- Theresa May
  • Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm. -- Penelope Lively
  • The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.' -- Gavyn Davies
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  • Kirtan is food for the spirit, a life raft of song. -- Jai Uttal
  • You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. -- Mark Twain
  • I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft... -- Jim Morrison
  • When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
  • I wouldn't trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic."-max -- James Patterson
  • Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet. -- Russell B. Long
  • Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six. -- Simon Munnery
  • The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind. -- Mark Twain
  • Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. -- Jack Kerouac
  • I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. -- Mark Twain
  • A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. -- Caitlin Moran
  • A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head. -- Gautama Buddha
  • The River SwishDeftly maneuvered through the dark green abyss ~The wooden raft seemed in tune with this ~Canorous rush of theriver swish.... -- Muse
  • Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe. -- George Henry Lewes
  • Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now. -- Dorothea Tanning
  • Any moment now..." The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water. No magical raft appeared. "Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said. -- Rick Riordan
  • A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore? -- Eckhart Tolle
  • The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. -- Eric Hoffer
  • A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft. -- Alan Watts
  • To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river. -- Gautama Buddha
  • Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this. -- David R. Brower
  • The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself. -- Nhat Hanh
  • The literary scene is a kind of Medusa's raft, small and sinking, and one's instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers. -- John Updike
  • You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge. -- Lee Smolin
  • There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand. -- Hayao Miyazaki
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  • ...Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.... -- Guru Nanak
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