Shabby

Famous quotes containing the word shabby:

“Each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Up through the lubber crust of Wales
I rocketed to astonish
The flashing needle rock of squatters,
The criers of Shabby and Shorten,
The famous stitch droppers.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.”
—Edgar Z. Friedenberg (b. 1921)