Bedraggled Quotes

#1. He caught his breath, not because of her bedraggled appearance, but rather because of the way she stood, so straight and tall. Courageous.

Jan Moran

#2. He noticed that a bedraggled and desiccated pink poppy was growing out of a crack where the wall of the teacher's house intersected with the cobbles of the street.

Louis De Bernieres

#3. The townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.

Sharon Shinn

#4. Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.

Sherwood Smith

#5. When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - 'bedraggled.'

Jean Patou

#6. Looking at her, bedraggled and beaten, some might have seen weakness. He saw strength, determination, and a will no one could crush.

Nalini Singh

#7. In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.

Faye Wattleton

#8. Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart couldn't possibly withstand any more.

Anna Godbersen

#9. Our bedraggled heads peeped from the water like bobbing apples just waiting to be eaten, as Magwart prowled the shore.

S.L. Mills

#10. The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.

Conrad Black

#11. Are you going somewhere?" I said, regarding him timidly. The suit made him seem a different person, less melancholy and distracted, more capable - unlike the Hobie of my first visit, with his bedraggled aspect of an elegant but mistreated polar bear.

Donna Tartt

#12. Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.

Patricia Moyes

#13. I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.

Minnie Driver

#14. From insipid sweet wine; from men who wear moustaches; from the sort of people that call legs 'limbs'; from bedraggled white petticoats: Kind Devil, deliver me.

Mary MacLane

#15. She should have looked ridiculous, standing there wet and bedraggled in her silly underwear, but she looked magnificent. Like some kind of mythical goddess rising from the mists of time.
Statuesque, utterly feminine. Breathtaking.

Sarah Mayberry

#16. She's drenched and bedraggled, but I've never loved anyone as much as I love her right now. That's how I know I'll have to give her up.

Tim Tharp

#17. Rus, dancing alongside Roza like a monstrous, bedraggled pony.

Laura Ruby

#18. It didn't matter that Daniel had already seen her at her absolute, tear-streaked, bedraggled worst. She still had an overwhelming desire to be pretty for him. Which made her resent herself.

Frankie Rose

#19. On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."

Vivien Leigh

#20. Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

Thomas Dekker

#21. The chances of anyone colonizing Mars are a million to one!" Or so the newspapers said. But still we came.

G.H. Finn

#22. I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor.

Bob Ney

#23. Be courageous requires not only, on the one hand, a watchful mind; it requires, on the other hand, also, the indispensable strong will to act.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#24. America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.

John Barrasso

#25. Stick with the nice boys ... bad boys don't bring you coffee in bed, I'll tell you that for free.

Liane Moriarty

#26. It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

George Saintsbury

#27. My position would be to see Jesus and Paul as people used by God to bring the monotheism and the moral message of Judaism to the world, and to teach the world that the God discovered and worshiped by the Jews was the only true God.

Harold S. Kushner

#28. Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.

Chad Hurley

#29. I want to make, like, 8,000 movies.

Clara Mamet

#30. I stood there and watched thirty-five children disappear in almost as many different directions and was suddenly horrified by what I'd done. What if someone got lost or hurt? Suppose they didn't come back on time? What would I do then?

Katherine Paterson