Ramshackle Quotes

#1. She lived in a sort of ramshackle magnificence.

William Joyce

#2. The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

Nelson Mandela

#4. Arthur Clennam came to a squeezed house, with a ramshackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he found to be number twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor Square.

Charles Dickens

#5. The ship was old, patched and ramshackle, as if repairs were done on the hop with whatever materials could be scavenged.

J. Frances Crane

#6. However tiny or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to the higher levels!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

Winston Churchill

#9. Certain ramshackle aspects of Dellarobia had also gone undercover, it seemed, just like the snow-covered barns. Some defects lurked, but for now her way seemed clear. She'd made plans.

Barbara Kingsolver

#10. ... to gently lie and prove the lie true ... everything is finally a promise ... what seems a lie is a ramshackle need, wishing to be born. ...

Ray Bradbury

#11. When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.

James Crumley

#12. To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty ... and ... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's ... all irrational.

William Faulkner

#13. However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. ...a relationship is one of those things that builds upon itself, incident upon incident. Words and gestures and phrases pile up, and in the end, they either make something that's strong and pleasing, or they're a sort of ramshackle mess and you know it's time to walk away.

Kylie Logan

#15. I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.

Julia Kent

#16. How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered.

Aracelis Girmay

#17. Mosca had come armed with a rich pack of lies, ready to pick whichever seemed to suit Goshawk's mood best. Under the wintry draught of his gaze, however, she felt most of them wither away in her hands.

Frances Hardinge

#18. Whatever you believe, you become.

Michael Jackson

#19. I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

Patricia McConnell

#20. I've always liked SyFy.

Lance Henriksen

#21. It is nothing short of a transformed vision of reality that is able to see Christ as more real than the storm, love more real than hatred, meakness more real than pride, long-suffering more real than annoyance, holiness more real than sin. - Discipline

Elisabeth Elliot

#22. Bringing a baby into the world is not like grilling enchiladas. It's a difficult thing.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#23. I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind.

Greg Evigan

#24. Parenthood is harder than conventional work, the author suggests, because our jobs develop a somewhat predictable flow and offer relatively short-term feedback. This leads to internal comparisons to the improvisational nature of parenting

Jennifer Senior

#25. The pursuit of universal rights requires more than speeches. It requires power.

George Friedman