Anne Wilkes Tucker Quotes

This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.

Anne Wilkes Tucker

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Victor Hugo
- Men
- Sea
- Forest
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

Omar Sharif
- Up
- Me
- Passion
The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

Rachel Lambert Mellon
- Free
- Design
- Sky
I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

Mahesh Babu
- Hope
- Future
- Movies
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
- Music
- School
- High
Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

Sam Graves
- Small
- Deal
- Regulations