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Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish. -- Roger Andrew Taylor
Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish. -- Roger Andrew Taylor
So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag. -- Johnny Cash
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. -- Herman Melville
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. -- William Rounseville Alger
Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts. -- Shana Alexander
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines. -- King Krule
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. -- Walt Whitman
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. -- Mother Jones
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. -- Peggy Noonan
Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
Now, as husbands go, I have to admit I did all right. Joe is unquestionably handsome, doesn't leave ragged toenail clippings scattered about the house, and has never once, in nearly five thousand days of togetherness, left the toilet seat up. -- Jenna McCarthy
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. -- Aaliyah
Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to the Canadian border, through Everett, Seattle, and Tacoma, to Olympia, the state capital, at the southern end of the sound. -- Jonathan Raban
Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. -- Elizabeth Warren
Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it. -- Krist Novoselic
My days in hostel were tough. I was ragged by my seniors. We were asked to wash their dirty clothes, do their odd jobs, etc. When it came to eating, we would be often given burnt rotis and milk that had awful odour. But, never once did I call home. I knew if I had to become a tough cricketer, I would have to handle the pressure. -- Suresh Raina
Death is dancing me ragged. -- Linda Hogan
Thou art a very ragged Wart. -- William Shakespeare
...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make. -- Eoin Colfer
The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here there was no monster greater than the ragged mountains. -- Rachel Hartman
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. -- Dorothy Parker
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. -- William Rounseville Alger
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that. -- Scott Joplin
Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . . -- Shana Alexander
Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! -- Alexander Blok
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul. -- e. e. cummings
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. -- T. S. Eliot
I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me... -- Laurie Halse Anderson
I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever. -- Jack Kerouac
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... -- Richard Wilbur
A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. -- William Carlos Williams
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion. -- Susan Abulhawa
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. -- Cormac McCarthy
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you... -- John Geddes
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either. -- S. I. Hayakawa
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament. -- Victor Hugo
God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach. -- Max Lucado
Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee. -- Francis Quarles
You fixed yourself. You didn't need me." "No, Sydney." My voice was ragged. "I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you. -- Richelle Mead
It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch. -- J. K. Rowling
He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness--everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being." -- Jack Kerouac
A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing. -- Zanjabil
You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done. -- Jack Kornfield
There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared. -- Robert Benchley
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. -- James A. Garfield
Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with. -- Desmond Tutu
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. -- Mother Jones
A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods." -- Mary Elizabeth Lease
Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature. -- Harper Lee
[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor. -- Annie Oakley

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