"He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Rakes Quotes #Scholar Quotes

“Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.”
“The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.”
“It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is.”
“The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I've got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they'd ask 'And who's the girl?' Just one famous face isn't enough any more.”
“I would pray that I'd leave a legacy of faith, trust and joy. For the joy of the Lord has been my strength and song, and I praise Him.”

Source : "Cliff Barrows Still Singing at 90". Interview with Bob Paulson, billygraham.org. April 28, 2013.
“People often ask me what happened to my first husband? And I say, I killed him.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.”
“I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.”

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