Scruffy Men Quotes & Sayings

Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs. — Bo Gritz

When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own. — Emily Dickinson

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing. — Robert Bringhurst

Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby. — Manoj Bhargava

Horace, hands on hips, paced around the circle, frowning as he studied them. They were a scruffy bunch, he thought, and none too clean. Their hair and beards were overlong and often gathered in rough and greasy plaits, like Nils's. There were scars and broken noses and cauliflower ears in abundance, as well as the widest assortment of rough tattoos, most of which looked as if they had been carved into the skin with the point of a dagger, after which dye was rubbed into the cut. There were grinning skulls, snakes, wolf heads and strange northern runes. All of the men were burly and thickset. Most had bellies on them that suggested they might be overfond of ale. All in all they were as untidy, rank smelling and rough tongued a bunch of pirates as one could be unlucky enough to run into. Horace turned to Will and his frown faded. 'They're beautiful,' he said. — John Flanagan

My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back. — Michka Assayas

Who cared anyway? I was going to Alaska, for heaven's sake. I'd never heard of any hotties from Alaska. All I pictured were big, scruffy men in red flannels with plenty of facial hair. — Cameo Renae

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. — Thomas More

I hate the very noise of troublous man
Who did and does me all the harm he can.
Free from the world I would a prisoner be
And my own shadow all my company. — John Clare

Don't regret what's happened.
If it's in the past, LET IT GO.
Don't even remember it! — Rumi

Can you lose something that was never yours to begin with? - Keira — S.C. Stephens

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway. — Meg Cabot

The whole point of the Resurrection stories - and the Resurrection itself - is that we don't recognize Jesus when he comes back to us. — Jay Parini

Your error is fundamental to the human psyche: you have allowed yourself to believe that others are mechanisms, static and solvable, whereas you are an agent. — Seth Dickinson

Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments. — John Updike

The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius. — Edward Gibbon