Rankly Quotes

#1. Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown.

William Shakespeare

#3. All that shit starts in E.

Stephen King

#4. In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.

Veronica Roth

#5. Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

Robert Morgan

#6. At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.

John Dufresne

#7. I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.

Hugh Laurie

#8. An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.

Andre Malraux

#9. To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

Aldous Huxley

#11. Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.

Anne Frank

#12. Warren criticized as deplorable and unnecessary the use of arbitrarily inflicted punishments and the customary repressions of the school system; "The natural rewards and punishments of their conduct . . . I consider the only species of government that does not produce more evil than good."32

James J. Martin

#13. I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I'd like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be.

Chris Froome

#14. I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.

Don Everly

#15. Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

Desiderius Erasmus