Rakes Quotes - Page 2

• I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Taken, Mean, Play

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• People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Play, Rivers, People

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• Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man's left to epitomize!

  Abraham Cowley

  Sabio, Arte, Hombres

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• Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Encounters, Add, Nerves

  Stefan Zweig (2008). "The Post-office Girl", New York Review of Books.

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• No soy un hombre religioso. Hace muchos años que no voy a misa. Pero creo en Dios. Mi propia práctica de la religión, podría decirse, es una no práctica. Personalmente creo que es tan digno un fin de semana rastrillar el césped de un vecino anciano o subir a una montaña y maravillarse de la belleza de esta tierra en la que vivimos como cantar hosannas o ir a misa. En otras palabras, creo que cada cual encuentra su propia iglesia, y no todas tienen cuatro paredes - Juez Haig (Página 399)

  Jodi Picoult

  Religious, Wall, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a particular delight. Intoxicated, she took less care for him than usual; abandoned and oblivious to all but her own pleasure, she would rake him, bite him - and beg him to serve her so, as well. He loved the feeling of power in it, the tantalizing choice between joining her at once in animal lust, or of holding himself-for a time- in check, so as to drive her at his whim.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Animal, Choices, Feelings

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.3795, Dell

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• Poco después, cuando el carpintero tomaba medidas para el ataúd, vieron caer por la ventana una ligera lluvia de diminutas flores amarillas. Cayeron sobre la ciudad durante toda la noche en una tormenta silenciosa, y cubrieron los tejados y bloquearon las puertas y asfixiaron a los animales que dormían al aire libre. Cayeron tantas flores del cielo que por la mañana las calles estaban alfombradas con un compacto cojín y tuvieron que quitarlas con palas y rastrillos para que pudiera pasar el cortejo fúnebre.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Mañana, Otoño, Lluvia

  "Cien años de soledad". Libro de Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. 1967.

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• Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

  Emily Bronte

  Self, Promise, Pharisees

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• If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilizations escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite.

  Russell Kirk

  Order, Civilization, Ideas

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.11, Regnery Publishing

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• Si quieres ver la diferencia entre la contribución [del jardín] y la del jardinero, pon la hierba más común que crece al lado de sus azadas, rastrillos, tijeras y un paquete de herbicida; habrás puesto la belleza, la energía y la fecundidad al lado de cosas muertas y estériles. Del mismo modo, nuestra "decencia y sentido común" se muestran grises y mortecinos al lado de la genialidad del amor.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Weed, Cutting

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• Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

  Rob Sheffield

  Inspiración, Danza, Pensamiento

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• A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Men, Names

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• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

  Dan Buettner

  Doors, Snow, Brooms

  "How To Live To 100 - Nine Healthy Habits" by Dan Buettner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2008.

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• Algunos hombres se dedican a los negocios, otros al placer; pero toda mujer es en el fondo una rastrilladora.

  Alexander Pope

  Business, Heart, Men

  1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.215-8.

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• You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes along and rakes it all up again." Caroline giggled. She was probably imagining Aunt Glenda as a camel. "This is not a TV series, Maddy," said Lady Arista sharply. "Thank goodness, no, it isn't," said Great-aunt Maddy. "If it were, I'd have lost track of the plot ages ago.

  Kerstin Gier

  Aunt, Thinking, Long Ago

  Kerstin Gier (2014). “The Ruby Red Trilogy”, p.225, Macmillan

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• I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as though you had the lowest of motives, when in fact, you were sincere?” “Precisely.” She gave a short, wry laugh and shook her head at him. “Convoluted sir! You are a maze.” He shot her a sulky glance. “I thought you were going to say I was amazing.” “That, too,” she admitted with a rueful smile, capturing his square chin between her fingertips.

  Gaelen Foley

  Knowing, Wry Smile, Squares

  Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.175, Ballantine Books

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• If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?

  Shel Silverstein

  Shoes, Snow, Perfect

  Shel Silverstein, “My Rules”

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• I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.

  Timbaland

  Surround Sound, Guy, Different

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• To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

  Samuel Richardson

  Husband, Choices, Betrayed

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• Provee de lo tuyo, para tenerlo todo a mano;
  Menos trabajo y el obrero, desocupado, de pie.
  Haz que se sequen tanto la casucha como la choza.
  Lava las ovejas (para mejor) donde corra el agua;
  Que vaya limpio, y se seque al sol.
  Tus casas y graneros serán mirados;
  Y todas las cosas a[...]edidas, antes de que llegue la cosecha.
  En pleno verano, abajo las zarzas y los frenos;
  Y después, al exterior, con tus horcas y tus rastrillos;
  Siega donde crezca el prado;
  Cuanto más tiempo esté en pie, peor se segará.

  Thomas Tusser

  Running, Hands, June

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• Cada mañana, hacia las siete, dejo mi estudio y salgo a la luminosa terraza; el sol ya quema resplandeciente Entre las sombras de la higuera, calienta al tacto el bajo muro de tosco granito. Aquí mis herramientas están listas y esperando, cada una una íntima, una aliada: la cesta redonda para las malas hierbas: La zappetta, la pequeña azada de mango corto... Aquí también hay un rastrillo, a veces una azada y una pala, o dos regaderas llenas de agua calentada por el sol. Con mi cesta y mi pequeña azada en la mano, de cara al sol, salgo a dar mi paseo matutino.

  Hermann Hesse

  Weed, Morning, Wall

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• Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.

  Frank Chodorov

  Play, Giving, Doe

  Frank Chodorov (1947). “Taxation is Robbery ...”

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• Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet

  Julia Quinn

  Husband, Violet, Rubbish

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• A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Drinking, Wine, Character

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• How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.

  John Updike

  Hurt, Eye, Reality

  1989 Autoconciencia, I.'Una suave noche de primavera en Shillington'.

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