Classic Rake Quotes & Sayings

Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote. — E.B. White

I understand that music is a business, but for people who have control of their stuff, like little Taylor and other artists, I think you'll find them standing up for their music every chance they get. — Garth Brooks

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene. — David McCullough

But a man's relationship to the world is determined not just by his intellect but by his feelings and by his who aggregate of spiritual forces. However much one implies or explains to a person that all that truly exists is no more than an idea, or that everything is made up of atoms, or that the essence of life is substance or will, or that heat, light, movement and electricity are only manifestations of one and the same energy; however much you explain this to a man - a being who feels, suffers, rejoices, fears and hopes - it will not explain his place in the universe. — Leo Tolstoy

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. — Thornton Wilder

It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them. — Topher Grace

You made me feel alive again. — Julie Kagawa

Second Splendid Truth
One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy.
One of the best ways to make other people happy is to e happy yourself.
p 147 — Gretchen Rubin

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad. — Graham Parker

I recognized the ugly and unwieldy form of the cook, whose very absurdness had now become unutterably tragic. The — H.P. Lovecraft

That's the great thing about hanging out with bloggers. They already know that you're broken, and most of them are, too, so they just nod and make you go take Xanax and go to bed. They're very supportive. Also they probably wanted me to leave so they could talk about me. — Jenny Lawson

I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten. — Ed Westwick

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold. — Paul Eldridge

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand. — Thomas Brooks

He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad. — F Scott Fitzgerald