“ Towery city and branching between towers; cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded. ”
- Gerard Manley Hopkins- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to prove their love like a moose needs a hat rack. ”
- Abigail Van Buren- Copy
- 3.2K
“ If I try a boardslide down a 14-stair handrail, I could rack my nuts. ”
- Bam Margera- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box. ”
- George Harrison- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Off the rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anyone. ”
- Francoise Giroud- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
- 3.5K
“ If you're not racking your brain to figure things out, you'll never become a scientist. ”
- Nosson Scherman- Copy
- 3.3K
“ It was a pleasant caf, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old waterproof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a caf au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 294
“ Life is a journey, and one thing's for sure: You don't see many hearses with luggage racks on them. We're privileged to be here, so instead of just using God's resources, we should leave the place a little better than we found it-or at least leave it the same. ”
- Joel Cunningham- Copy
- 145
“ Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. ”
- Philip Pullman- Copy
- 1.7K
“ He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. ”
- Alexandre Dumas- Copy
- 3.1K
“ What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. ”
- Beryl Markham- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving… ”
- Edna Ferber- Copy
- 3.9K
“ O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew — hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been. ”
- Gerard Manley Hopkins- Copy
- 311
“ Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 3.8K
“ We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. ”
- Mary Antin- Copy
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