Rack Renting Quotes

#1. Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

James Connolly

#2. In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.

Seth Godin

#3. Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Oscar Wilde

#4. The reason for thinking that there will be no 'last' philosophy is simply that no answer can fail to be an answer to a question, and no question can guarantee its own permanent relevance.

Richard M. Rorty

#5. To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#6. I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Carrie Underwood

#7. Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.

Susan Glaspell

#8. Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

Wassily Kandinsky

#9. That's why I have to focus, I remind myself. And I can't do that if I stare into Day's eyes.

Marie Lu

#10. I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

Charlene Tilton

#11. A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Rebecca West

#12. Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley

Nicholas Murray