Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Cahill

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

Victor Hugo

Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

Veronica Roth

Then his eyes focus on something over my shoulder, and he starts walking. I turn to see Uriah jogging from the elevator bank. He is grinning. “Heard a rumor you were a dirty traitor,” Uriah says. “Yeah, whatever,” says Zeke. They collide in an embrace that looks almost painful to me, slapping each other’s backs and laughing with their fists clasped between them.

V. S. Pritchett

[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.

Sophocles

More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

Stan Mikita

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

Taylor Swift

You have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they're keeping, or isn't what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy.

Tamora Pierce

Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.

Ron Fournier

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

Rumi

Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.

Tom Robbins

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

Tommy Smothers

You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.

Stephan Pastis

The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.

Spider Robinson

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

Shane Claiborne

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

Michelle Mone

I love the water; it inspires me, even if it is dirty London water that I look at.

Michael Pollan

If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.

Michael Pollan

There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the dirty dozen that you can get off the Web. Strawberries, potatoes. A handful of crops that have very high pesticide residues if you don't buy organic. If you eat that a lot, that's a good place to invest.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.

Sherman Alexie

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

Sebastian Junger

I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

Raven-Symone

Don't put your all into someone if they treat you like dirt.

Siobhan Fahey

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

Norm MacDonald

Actually, with those dirty movies, I find like, they're good for about fifteen, twenty minutes. I'm really interested. And, then, uh, there's one point, that all of a sudden I'm bored. You know? I just lose interest completely and I feel deeply ashamed.

Neil Gaiman

Hasn't there always been a moon?" "Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue...

Neil Gaiman

What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?” “Because I'm a damsel in distress,” she said. “And you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car.

John Muir

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

John Steinbeck

After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.

Ted Nugent

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

Ted Nugent

I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.

Michelle Bachelet

Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.

Michael Parenti

The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

Michael Parenti

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.