Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Wright

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

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.

Robert Kennedy

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

Robert Greene

A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.

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.

Robert Smith Surtees

Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

Sara Sheridan

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

Richard M. Nixon

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Rian Johnson

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.

Tupac Shakur

Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

Tupac Shakur

Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.

Tupac Shakur

I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.

Tupac Shakur

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Tupac Shakur

If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that.

Tori Amos

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.

Tori Amos

It took the love of a good man [to heal]. When I was reverting back into my, let's say, perversions, he would say: 'Let's go get an ice cream. I am not going to enable you. If you can only come as a wanton woman for hire, because you feel dirty and shamed, then no. Women are goddesses.' And I know that and I believe that. I chose a man who believed that, too.

Tori Amos

I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.

Robin Wright

I just love getting dirty.

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.

Rosemary Mahoney

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

Wallace Stevens

Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.

Virginia Woolf

To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.

Wernher von Braun

In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work.

Wernher von Braun

A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.

W. S. Gilbert

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

W. H. Auden

The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.

Van Jones

Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.

Van Jones

Dirty energy is a finite resource; the more of it we use, the scarcer it becomes.