Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felix Rohatyn

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

Fede Alvarez

There's so much stuff going on behind the cameras. Sometimes people think these things are done certain ways and when you watch that you see how hard and down and dirty it was.

Fay Weldon

I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.

Fanny Kemble

I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.

Fareed Zakaria

America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.

Ezra Miller

I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.

Ezra Taft Benson

Those who think clean thoughts do not do dirty deeds.

Eugene Mirman

In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty.'

Francis Bacon

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Alexis Smith

Sometimes when you go out in public, some older people will give you dirty looks. They don't think highly of us.

I've had more fun out here in the last two weeks than I have in the last 10 years fighting the company. The company's been treating us like dirt for years.

Erwin McManus

You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

Florynce Kennedy

A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like you've never seen a bathtub. What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you "win" clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are dirty again.

Henry Mintzberg

Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information.

Henry Miller

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

Cassandra Clare

Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.

Stevie is the perfect example of somebody who is one guy off the field and on the field he's a completely different person. He's usually a fairly passive, relaxed kind of guy, but on the field he can be a dirty little player. ... He's not always the one to kick first, but he'll get after you if it's an even game.

David Tyree

Sweaty's like one of us, ... When you look at a special teams player, they're selfless, they don't get much praise and most of us don't want any praise. We do the dirty work and we have fun doing it.

It's pretty dirty to kick a guy when he's down.

Danielle is one of those players that just a scrapper. She does all the dirty work that other people don't want to. She stepped up too and hadn't even shot a three all year.

It's a blue-collar position, ... No one knows what goes on at that position. A lot of things are filtered through (the strongside linebacker). He's doing a lot of dirty work and that's the glamour part about it. You've just got to do those things and not do more than you can.

It is the dirtiest way to generate energy on the face of the planet.

Whoopi Goldberg

I told her her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

It's a playoff game. Everyone is trying to win at whatever cost. I would never be a dirty player or anything like that.

Ray Allen

It's just dirty basketball. It's plain, outright, dirty basketball.

It's nice to get the kids involved. They can come out and get dirty and it's OK.

It's sort of like a dirty secret. We don't embrace it.

Ariel Sharon

Even if you'll prove to me by mathematical means that the present war in Lebanon is a dirty immoral war, I don't care.

Blight does not mean boarded-up store fronts or dirty streets. It can mean the infrastructure (sewers and roads) might not be up to par.

It's there, these guys can play man. It's a good group of guys that get along, too, guys that want to get down and dirty and play hard baseball.

It's not uniformly distributed ... it's not like it's hiding in the dirt and we just didn't see it.

It's kind of funny because most of them were pretty hard-nosed guys. They did whatever it takes to win, including doing the dirty work or fighting.

It looks to have been laterally pushed, not scoured in back with dirt being removed in pieces. You can see levee material, some distance pushed inside the floodwall area, like a bulldozer pushed it.