Rascally Quotes

#1. No, I don't think any harm of old Butterbur. Only he does not altogether like mysterious vagabonds of my sort.' Frodo gave him a puzzled look.
'Well, I have rather a rascally look, have I not?' said Strider with a curl of his lip and a queer gleam in his eye.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. All things are inventions of holiness. Some more rascally than others. I

Mary Oliver

#3. Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

Jules Verne

#4. The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Thomas Paine

#5. Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

Arthur Murphy

#6. Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

Josef Albers

#7. The good soldier did as he was told, and if he had any sense at all volunteered for nothing, especially promotion.

Iain M. Banks

#8. 'I love to cook. Very healthy eating ... ' Twain also forgoes meat, dairy, and eggs. 'Nothing,' she declares, 'that had to die.'

Shania Twain

#9. Moderation is based on the idea that things do not fit neatly together. Politics is likely to be a competition between legitimate opposing interests. Philosophy is likely to be a tension between competing half truths. A personality is likely to be a battleground of valuable but incompatible traits.

David Brooks

#10. I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Gary Cole

#11. Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

Evan Williams

#12. Question authority... Then ignore it!

Joseph Barjack

#13. He wore an air of perpetual resignation around him like a fashion accessory.

B.V. Lawson

#14. And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I'm going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part.

Thom Yorke

#15. It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

Confucius

#16. The penalty for summoning the dead back to earth is death; if the summoned spirit does not kill its summoner, be assured the Church will.

Stacia Kane

#17. As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.

Koren Zailckas