Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Bogosian

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

You've got to have some of those guys. You've got to have some guys who are willing to get down and dirty and get after it. They're not out to see their name in the paper, they're out for the team to win.

John Lasseter

The level of detail, the patina on the road, the peeling paint, the dirt - everything looks so real.

Emile Zola

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?

Emily Bronte

I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!

The dirty little secret of the VC industry is that, until the Internet phenomenon, they weren't investing in startups.

The dirty little secret is it's really just a long walk.

The Dirty Dozen is a reminder that tax scams can take many forms, ... Don't be fooled by false promises peddled by scam artists. They'll take your money and leave you with a hefty tax bill.

The dirt horses performed well. The turf horses performed well, ... You know, it's a fair surface for racing.

Tom Petty

Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down

Rick Riordan

With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His eyes widened as he saw me. I must’ve looked pretty strange—a tall black kid in dirty, ragged Egyptian clothes, with a weird box tucked under one arm and a bird of prey perched on the other. “How’s it going?” I said. “I’ll take the stairs.” He hurried off.

Richard Branson

Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud.

Reese Witherspoon

I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to believe in our own ability? To be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.

Richard Branson

And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power the planes in the future so that, you know, by 2020 I hope that our planes will be powered on fuels that are clean fuels and are not polluting the environment so that we'll have a green airline and an airline that actually has fuels that will be hopefully cheaper than the dirty fuels of the past. So [we're] doing good and also turning a profit at the same time.

Tite Kubo

I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty." -Kuchiki Rukia

Robert A. Heinlein

Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

Radhanath Swami

The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord's voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. Its really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.

Lenny Bruce

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

Lenny Bruce

You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.

Thom Yorke

I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.

Thom Yorke

You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking.

Terry Gilliam

Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.

Sean Lennon

Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

Shaquille O'Neal

There's two kinds of dirty - dirty and sewer-dirty. Danny Ferry is sewer-dirty and has been ever since he was at Duke.

Lewis Mumford

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.

Pele

When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.

Phil Collins

I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.

Peter Cook

I didn't know dirty words could be done that artfully.

Joss Whedon

Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.

James Cook

Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one.

James Altucher

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

Milan Kundera

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.