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  • I really like Rag & Bone jeans; I wear a lot of those. -- Merritt Patterson
  • My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag. -- Miranda Leek
  • My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.' -- Miranda Leek
  • I love Rag & Bone, Dior, and Valentino; I like feminine, sexy things. Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, too. -- Ieva Laguna
  • What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar. -- Eugene Field
  • Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry. -- Jack Herer
  • I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone. -- Tom Brady
  • Rhythm and sex go together and that's where I come from as far as the music goes. Rag Doll and Love In An Elevator are such sexual songs that you put them on & the strippers go NUTS! -- Joe Perry
  • My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times I want to dress more elegantly. Most of the time it's what I like to call 'comfortable chic': Giuseppe Zanotti flat sandals, Rag & Bone jeans, slouchy Isabel Marant shirts. -- Joan Smalls
  • I record at the same place [Toe Rag or FatSounds Studios in London], with the same people [Liam Watson at Toe Rag and Ed Deegan at Fatsounds], every time. It makes it effortless, and another reason for the vast output when I do go in and record stuff. -- Holly Golightly
  • You can't go round looking like a rag. -- Gin Wigmore
  • I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years. -- Steve Waugh
  • We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her. -- Georgina Chapman
  • I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan. -- Nikki Haley
  • My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her following behind me through life with a damp rag and an air of exasperation. -- Laurie Graham
  • It has long been known that if you want to see me turn into a raging, snarling beast, then all you have to do is use any combination of the words 'chill out,' 'chilling,' or - my maximum red rag - 'chillax.' -- John Niven
  • I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves... They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company. -- Ashton Kutcher
  • The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan. -- Anne Lamott
  • About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent. -- Colum McCann
  • Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner - I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags. -- Matthew McConaughey
  • Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it. -- Kathleen Hanna
  • I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.' -- Jennifer Lawrence
  • I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values. -- Al Sharpton
  • Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag. -- Chet Raymo
  • And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag. -- Scott Westerfeld
  • A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker. -- Orison Swett Marden
  • Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The Nazis were well dressed. Today's racists are a rag-tag bunch with no sense of style or panache. -- Dov Davidoff
  • My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it -- Jay-Z
  • Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll. -- Rick Riordan
  • Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict. -- John Milton
  • Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled -- Neil Peart
  • Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. -- William Butler Yeats
  • I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls. -- Desmond Tutu
  • ...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in. -- Jean Rhys
  • Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus. -- Anne Lamott
  • Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it was becoming steadily dirtier. -- J. K. Rowling
  • My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known. -- William Butler Yeats
  • Pre-treating is a really important step for stain removal. It's best to treat stains right away, so blot fresh stains with a paper towel or a white rag. -- Clinton Kelly
  • Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • 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
  • Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats! -- D. H. Lawrence
  • The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca. -- Lance Morrow
  • I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart." -- Robert Hass
  • For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters. -- Benito Mussolini
  • I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts. -- Charles Darwin
  • Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall. -- Richard Hugo
  • Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London -- Ambrose Bierce
  • We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry... -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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