Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Chesterfield

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Mahatma Gandhi

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

Mahatma Gandhi

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Don't let anybody walk trough your mind with dirty feet.

Gael Garcia Bernal

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sean pushes up to his feet and stands there. I look at his dirty boots. Now I've offended him, I think. He says, "Other people have never been important to me, Kate Connolly. Puck Connolly." I tip my face up to look at him, finally. The blanket falls off my shoulders, and my hat, too, loosened by the wind. I can't read his expression--his narrow eyes make it difficult. I say, "And now?" Kendrick reaches to turn up the collar on his jacket. He doesn't smile, but he's not as close to frowning as usual. "Thanks for the cake.

The media dubbed me Dirty Harry, for my antics, I guess, if you will,

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

Holly Black

He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

Hayley Williams

So one day he found her crying Coiled up on the dirty ground Her prince finally came to save her & the rest you can figure out But it was a trick & the clock struck twelve Well make sure to build your home brick by boring brick or the wolf's gonna blow it down Keep your feet on the ground When your head's in the clouds

Helen Reddy

You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

Henry Cisneros

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

Helena Bonham Carter

Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle.

Joyce Carol Oates

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.

Josh Gad

I do have a dirty sense of humor.

Kate Moss

I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

Lawrence Taylor

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

Laura Wade

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

Greg Brown

In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes me want to cry. Oh to clean our dirty planet, Now there's a noble wish, And I'm puttin' my shoulder to the wheel 'Cause I wanna catch some fish.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

John Mayer

I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?

John Lewis

Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.

John Lasseter

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

Francois Truffaut

Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut.

Patrick Wilson

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

Patrick Dennis

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

P. C. Cast

Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean.

Pauline Kael

What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.

Mary McGrory

I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

Martin Amis

While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk

Philip Schaff

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

Pope Francis

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.