Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nora Johnson

I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.

Nora Roberts

Phillip look into Ray's eyes. He saw compassion and hope. And he saw himself mirrored back, bleeding in a dirty gutter on a street where life was worth less than a dime bag. Sick, tired, petrified, Phillip dropped his head into his hands. "What's the point?" "You're the point, son." Ray ran his hand over Phillip's hair. "You're the point.

Nas

But whats it all worth, cant take it when you under this earth Rich men died and tried, but none of it worked They just rob your grave, Id rather be alive and paid Before my numbers called, historys made Somell fall, but I rise, thug or die Makin choices, that determine my future under the sky To rob steal or kill, Im wondering why Its a dirty game, is any man worthy of fame? Much to success to ya, even if you wish me the opposite Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is.

Morris Chestnut

Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

Monica Lewinsky

I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.

Miranda Richardson

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

John Ruskin

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

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.

Matt Johnson

This is my favorite weather, ... I love it. Because we get dirty and we play football.

Mike Rowe

This is a great dirty job for us. It's in the kinder, gentler area.

Meghan Trainor

Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just happens his first big hit as a producer was [Derulo's] "Talk Dirty to Me," and that Pitbull is his best friend. But he can actually - I swear - he can do every genre.

McLean Stevenson

No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money.

Arson investigation is very slow, tedious, dirty work,

Bob Dylan

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

People had complained it was dirty. It had been dirty in the past. It's such a great tradition, that we didn't want to lose that tradition.

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Charles Manson

They're looking for something dirty in everything, and if you're looking for something, you'll find it. You have to put up some kind of face for them, and that's the only face they understand.

There's been this controversy over whether comets are dirty snowballs or icy dirtballs.

Michael Kors

The most exciting thing to say now is, 'Oh, she really looks pretty ,' ... That's not such a dirty word anymore.

Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.

Nancy Lopez

I told them, 'If you guys start to struggle, start talking about something else, tell a dirty joke.

It's not really dirty and it doesn't really stink either. The grease traps are worse (than the septic tanks). People think it's a dirty job but I'll tell you this, I'd rather do this than be on a hog farm.

You're going to be hard pressed to find somebody who hasn't heard the name Padilla and read somewhere that he was the supposed dirty bomber. Padilla is the government's worst nightmare as far as litigation.

Ronald Perelman

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

Roman Polanski

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

Rumi

The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?

Roy Jenkins

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

Sonny Vaccaro

Now the kids are portrayed as dirty when they talk to an agent, a shoe guy, some hanger-on. Well, it's only natural that people are circling them - there are millions of dollars involved.

Stephen Greenblatt

A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

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.