Top 100 Raw Quotes
#1. Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.
Steven Furtick
#2. I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be.
Charlotte Eriksson
#3. I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.
Margi Clarke
#4. I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel very real. If this was going to be a story about kids discovering time travel and building a time machine that we needed to believe that they really did it .
Dean Israelite
#5. Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
Kangana Ranaut
#6. He loved the rain and the raw energy of crashing storms. I'm going to die in the rain. Too much has happened to me in the rain. I'm going to die in the rain.
Mark Berent
#7. data mining is the act of digging into large amounts of raw data to discover unique nontrivial useful patterns.
Anil Maheshwari
#8. Commercialism and Privilege hold their powers in what they devalue. They sometimes prevent raw talent from breaking light
Dew Platt
#9. If anything, she had been guilty of pride and raw ambition.
Jenny Nordberg
#10. Babies are frightening
raw tyrants whose only kingdom is their own body.
Jeanette Winterson
#12. And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its big rank smell that smells like the raw body of America itself because it washes it up.
Jack Kerouac
#13. There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.
George Ayittey
#14. Adopt the attitude I refuse to walk around like an exposed raw nerve. I've made up my mind that I'm going to be upbeat, positive, and I won't believe what other people tell me about myself.
Sherry Argov
#15. I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters - not horror film scary, but vulnerable scary.
Shailene Woodley
#16. For all of her influence on popular culture, and the remarkable performances she left behind, perhaps Farrah Fawcett's greatest legacy was her raw, intimate, honest portrait of a woman fighting for her life - against cancer.
Alana Stewart
#17. Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#18. They took council. On that raw tablestone the flames of their balefire swirled and circled and they studied the arrant blackness under them where it fell away like the sheer cloven face of the world.
Cormac McCarthy
#19. Don't be perfect,
don't pretend to be perfect,
just stay raw n think at the end of day what you do is right or wrong ...
Sachin
#20. Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
#21. He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The cold savagery of Zsadist. The sharp cunning of Vishous.
J.R. Ward
#22. Not yet," he wailed, as raw as the earth. "But you lay as though already dead, and I cannot go on without you. Do not leave me; do not die!" And I felt a grief from him to melt the mountain ice. Grief to drown in. Grief to both rend my heart and mend it at once.
Tosca Lee
#23. There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
Gary Oldman
#24. There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#25. I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.
Wes Montgomery
#26. I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.
Denis Leary
#27. Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.
Edith Wharton
#28. Her emotions were so raw that the hated tears were always just below the surface, waiting to escape at the most inopportune times. She felt like an emotional wreck and had to constantly battle for composure.
Laurann Dohner
#29. Glass nodded, worried that if she spoke, the tears would come again. The pain was so new, so raw, she hardly knew what shape it would take, what sort of scars it would leave. If her chest was going to burn like this for the rest of her life.
Kass Morgan
#30. When I was on Raw, I was like Julius Caesar, an all-powerful conquering hero who became so powerful that everyone around him had to conspire against him.
Wade Barrett
#31. The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change.
Stephen Jay Gould
#32. If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.
Alphonse Karr
#33. You plan to rob the world of its treasures if you decide to die with your potentials unleashed! The world needs your leadership influence; don't take it raw to the cemetery!
Israelmore Ayivor
#34. Cosmology and neuropsychology have absurdity in common. The raw facts are strange beyond imagination.
Paul Broks
#35. The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.
G.H. Hardy
#36. Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.
Geoffrey Madan
#37. Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw
Homer
#38. Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.
Kenneth Copeland
#39. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from the Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane.
Cassandra Clare
#40. ...One lives and survives only if one has the ability to swallow and digest bitter and unpalatable things. We, you and I, and our people shall live because there are only a few among us who do not love raw onions.
Jamil Ahmad
#41. For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.
Junior Seau
#42. But now he understood why someone would write things like 'she walked in beauty like the night' and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time.
Julie Anne Long
#43. And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.
Susan May Warren
#44. The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.
John Polkinghorne
#45. I can feel the draw, her body calling to mine as animals do in heat. I'd fuck her like an animal; raw, hot, and fucking hard.
Amelia Hutchins
#46. There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.
Madeline Miller
#47. When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow.
Marc Bekoff
#48. The pink petals hung raw and shook with the cold and wind. How they hung on out of season, the struggle of it, the strength it took. Not long now, and they'd be brown stains on a stalk.
Gerard Donovan
#49. There is an irony in how Christians talk about and understand sexuality. Christians often lament the world's reductionism of sex to genital interaction and raw physical pleasures, but then they typically reduce a gay person's sexuality to just that.
Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
#50. Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy!
Beverly L. Kaye
#51. I never cook at home. After 15 hours at work, I don't have much of a desire to cook at home. I do eat at home, but it's always something simple. Raw nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts
these are marvelous products. I am, however, the type that likes to go out to eat a lot. I never tire of it.
Ferran Adria
#52. And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.
Neil Gaiman
#53. I wanted to preserve the feeling of remembering her just months after her death - the raw immediacy of it, so the drafts were really about getting the language right, getting the pitch right, keeping the voice austere and plainspoken.
Paul Lisicky
#54. It had soaked in on him at last, the spot he was in. Soaked clear through a quart of booze until it hit him where he lived and rubbed the place raw.
Jim Thompson
#55. One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real.
Sara Sheridan
#56. Do you ever think you might be a different species of human, knitted out of raw DNA in a laboratory like in The Island of Doctor Moreau, and then turned loose to see if you can pass yourself off as normal or not?
David Mitchell
#57. Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#58. There was not enough of the patient to go around, and specialists pushed forward in line with raw tempers and snapped at their colleagues in front to hurry up and give somebody else a chance.
Joseph Heller
#59. The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.
Mary McCarthy
#60. Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.
Ravi Zacharias
#61. A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
Mickey Rourke
#62. When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky has been a revelation - he brings out all its raw passion. And Gergiev with the super-virtuoso LSO - well, it's just the perfect combination.
Charles Hazlewood
#63. Gos had steely pinions and a mad marigold eye, and hopped and flew and mantled his great wings over a fist of raw liver. He cheeped like a songbird and was terrified of cars. I liked Gos. Gos was comprehensible, even if the writer was utterly beyond understanding.
Helen Macdonald
#64. I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.
Hugh Masekela
#65. Kids are not physical creatures, and they're not stupid. They know all about violence and power and raw emotions. What's really scary is when adults pretend that such things don't exist."
(Grossman's review of The Hunger Games in "Time" magazine, Sept. 7, 2009)
Lev Grossman
#66. You don't fade from within my mind; it's a flaw
That I dwell on each moment, cling to you
Like smoke escaping my fingers while the candles burn them raw
Sreesha Divakaran
#67. I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians ... Eddie Murphy back when he was doing 'Raw.' I watched that so many times as a kid, I can probably still quote the entire thing to this day. Chris Rock. Dave Chappelle. George Carlin. A lot of the guys who were sort of edgy for their time.
Ray William Johnson
#68. Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
Helen Gurley Brown
#69. A.: Whatever; you must know how it works. An artifact containing... raw feelings, unprocessed sights and sounds and pains that the brain interprets- is that too crazy?
DR. BELKNAP: No. It has existed for thousands of years. It's called a book.
Edgar Cantero
#70. Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.
Keith Urban
#71. Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.
Bruce Chatwin
#72. How to keep the seductive ghost of bliss long absconded from baiting you and hooking you and pulling you back out and eating your heart raw and (if you're lucky) eliminating your map for good.
David Foster Wallace
#73. I made love to Adam, slow and sweet, filled with genuine emotion, driven by divine spiritual need and romantic love, not just raw desire and animalistic need.
Deborah Ann
#74. They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad ... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.
Mark Edwards
#75. Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone ... Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.
Tony Kushner
#76. He was breaking his fast on white wine and raw onions, in order to keep up the character of martyr, I conclude.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#77. Some girls sit around and watch 'Gossip Girl' together. Me and my girlfriends watch 'Raw' and 'SmackDown.'
Ronda Rousey
#78. It was raw pity and unconstrained joy.
Hugh Howey
#79. People trying to help you when you're past help are raw and helpless. Nobody wins: you get nothing; they feel worse.
John Darnielle
#80. When I come over the top of the dune I see the ocean and I feel like I'm seeing it for the first time.
Today it's blue, straight and simple. Raw blue.
Kirsty Eagar
#81. I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
Flannery O'Connor
#82. He came over last night. He'd been out chasing foxes with his friends, and you know what he and the boys are like when they do the werewolf thing. The women, the drinking, and the farm animals." "Feeding on raw steak before he went out didn't curb the need to eat sheep?
Stephanie Rowe
#83. We say "misogynist"; I've written that "misogyny kills," but the world falls flat on your tongue - it's too academic sounding, not raw or horrifying enough to relay the truth of what it means.
Jessica Valenti
#84. What's it like? Ballet school?"
"Harsh," he said. "Everyone dances until they collapse. We eat only raw-egg smoothies and wheat protein. Every Friday we have a dance-off and whoever is left standing gets a chocolate bar. Also we have to watch dance movies constantly.
Cassandra Clare
#85. Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.
Laura Miller
#86. I prefer noodles when they're raw, they taste just as good, but reward you with a satisfying crunch...
Callum Horncastle
#87. College is just a place where they let you pay them to tell you things you should be getting paid to learn on the job. TRUE.
Don't take that teat, baby. That is a raw tittie. College is a red raw areola, and instead of milk it releases highly acidic French dressing.
"Ray's Place" 1/6/04
Chris Onstad
#88. It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.
Takashi Miike
#89. The system itself has the mark of cleverness and ingenuity ... When you manipulate the menu system, you feel as though you are at the helm of the future ... The Xbox probably has the most raw potential for excellent games
Jerry Holkins
#90. Cuba," he said in his resounding defense plea, "continues to be a producer of raw materials. We exhort sugar to import candy, we export hides to import shoes, we export iron to import plows.
Eduardo Galeano
#91. A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.
Mary McCarthy
#92. I had size 12 feet when I was 10, so I thought I was going to be 6 8. My goal was to be able to dunk a basket. I wound up being 6 1 with size 14 feet. I got the raw end of the deal.
Bradley Cooper
#93. Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they're always strangely drawn back ... because there's nothing that can compare to seeing the raw reality of the basic human need for survival. It disgusts and inspires
Dan Eldon
#94. Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ... or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
Aaron Levie
#95. I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing, I think the aspect that would have most endeared me to that field would have been the orchestration.
Wendy Carlos
#96. He found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#97. He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret, and with such power and raw force, I often woke with the taste of salt from my tears clinging to my skin. Joanna about Ben
Vicki Pettersson
#98. She exuded a raw, animal magnetism that left boys like me tongue-tied, and made men ignore their wives and crowd up close.
Michael Schmicker
#99. With horses, there were no guarantees. You worked yourself raw and hoped until your heart hurt just for a little heat in a foreleg to derail everything.
Mara Dabrishus
#100. If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.
David Wolfe
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