Famous Quotes & Sayings

He didn't lift a single scoop of dirt from my back yard.

He's a dirty guy under there. I don't know if he spits on people. I would say a little grabbing.

Carl Jung

Six hundred years is an awfully long time, Ever. So long it's impossible for either of us to imagine. Though it is more than enough time to rack up a few dirty skeletons for the old metaphorical closet, right?

Gerard Butler

He goes on the dirt at home and he has raced on the dirt in Dubai, so he knows it,

Richard Dawkins

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

Rex Harrison

Having been challenged by Colonel Pickering, Higgins: You know, it's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.

Ronald Wright

Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.

Raymond Chandler

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Robin Wright

I just love getting dirty.

Van Jones

The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

Wally Schirra

Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable... and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again.

Walt Disney

When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point--mine wouldn't be.

Vincent Cassel

Good guys need to be a little dirty otherwise they're just boring.

Vinod Khosla

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

Sarah Jessica Parker

It's never been integral to the story that I take my clothes off. I've always had clauses in my contracts saying no nudity and no body doubles... I admire actresses who can do it without feeling exploited. As long as it's their own free will, I think it's great. It's not a moral judgement, I've just never felt comfortable doing it - I'm too modest.

Roseanne Barr

Don't call people names you dirty name caller you.

Roger Ebert

Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is.

Robin Morgan

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

Will Shetterly

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

Warren Farrell

Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship.

Warren Farrell

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

Zach Parise

I don't score highlight reel goals. They come from work, from getting into the corners, getting a little dirty.?

Yulia Tymoshenko

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

Zac Posen

The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.

William Baldwin

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

William Least Heat-Moon

The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.

Walter Wriston

Risk is not a dirty word.

William Jackson

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.

Winona Ryder

I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.

Veronica Roth

The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.

Robert Gober

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

Rosemary Mahoney

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.