Rakes Quotes - Page 3

• La riqueza, comoquiera que se obtenga, en Inglaterra hace señores de los mecánicos, caballeros de los rastrillos; La antigüedad y el nacimiento no son necesarios aquí; Es la insolencia y el dinero lo que hace a un par.

  Daniel Defoe

  Caballero, Inglaterra, Pares

  Daniel Defoe (1855). "The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe", p.443

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• Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Bollywood, Film, Hindi

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• Peter Hinwood found all these old pictures - Polaroids - and when I saw them, I just didn't believe that the person in them was connected with me. I was in a hotel room with one of those front-and-back mirrors, and I thought, Who the hell is that? I used to be thin as a rake. I used to have the nice-shaped pecs. It's sad. No, it's not sad, it's the reality, and I've accepted this now.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Nice, Believe, Reality

  Entrevista con Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. 13 de febrero de 2013.

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• Lo de la fama es interesante porque nunca quise ser famosa, y nunca soñé que lo sería....Ya sabes que no pensaba que iban a rastrillar mis cubos de basura, no esperaba que me fotografiaran en la playa con un objetivo largo. Nunca soñé que influiría negativamente en la vida de mi hija, como a veces ha ocurrido. Sería grosero decir que ser famoso no tiene nada de bueno; que un completo desconocido se te acerque mientras paseas por Safeways y te diga una serie de cosas bonitas que podrían decir de tu trabajo.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Beach, Nice

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• Who can dispute that the governments of the United States constitute the most voracious tax system in the history of mankind? In the year 2000, those governments succeeded in laying hands on more than $3 trillion - almost $11,000 each for the 275 million men, women, and children resident in the country. No other nation-state rakes in an amount even close to the U.S. total.

  Robert Higgs

  País, Niños, Hombres

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• Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Escribir, Hombres, Pensar

  The Man with the Muck-rake, pronunciado el 14 de abril de 1906

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• If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

  Ice Cube

  Voz, Personas, Registros

  "Ice Cube: 'Mi hijo podía recitar Straight Outta Compton a los dos años'". Entrevista con Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. 20 de febrero de 2014.

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• It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.

  Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

  Interesting, Periods, Certain

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• Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Honest, Suspicion

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work”, p.259

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• I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.

  Chuck Lorre

  Beautiful, Children, Kids

  "The Big Bang Theory (TV Series) The Thanksgiving Decoupling". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Running, Children, Play

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.44, Arktos

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• Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Believe, Names

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.75

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• I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Rain, Exercise

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Eso provocó una risa burlona de Lillian. "En serio, alguien debería decirle a St. Vincent que es un cliché viviente. Se ha convertido en la encarnación de todo lo que dicen de los rastrillos reformados.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Laughing, Embodiment, Should

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). "El diablo en invierno: Número 3 de la serie", p.122, Hachette UK

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• Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Dog, Home, Thinking

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• La sabiduría, pensó Niko mientras apoyaba la mejilla en su rastrillo de mango largo, no se puede tener sin precio.

  Janet Morris

  Knowledge, Commitment, Long

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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• I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: "Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Dad, Flower, Keys

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• El bacará es un juego en el que el crupier recoge el dinero con un remo flexible y luego se lo lleva a casa. Si me hubiera prestado su remo, me habría quedado.

  Mark Twain

  Divertido, Casa, Juego

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• If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of good people... who long for a visitation from heaven in old-time power. The kindling wood is scattered all round in all the churches. May God help us to rake off the ashes, uncover the live coals and may He blow upon us with the breath of His Spirit!

  Vance Havner

  Blow, Roots, Long

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• Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it.

  Janet Morris

  Death, Blood, Long

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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• ¡Tres marineros! ¿Qué hombres sois?
  Los tres Sabios de Gotham somos.
  ¿Adónde en vuestro cuenco tan libre?
  A rastrillar la luna del mar.
  El cuenco se recorta. La luna brilla,
  Y nuestro lastre es vino viejo.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Sabio, Vino, Luna

  Thomas Love Peacock (1850). "Headlong hall y Nightmare abbey", p.152

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