Rakes Quotations

Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

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

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.

... you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

Reformed rakes often make the best husbands

That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. “Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he’s a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake...

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

Every woman is at heart a rake.