Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jeremy Clarkson

Like many men, I can never find anything that I'm looking for, even when I'm actually looking at it. In a fridge, I think milk is actually invisible to the male eye. And so, it turns out, are dirty great holes in the fence.

Groucho Marx

Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself.

Graham Joyce

George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

Harper Lee

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Gregory David Roberts

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

Hugh Downs

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

George Bernard Shaw

The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes 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.

Alexis Smith

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

Stephen Frears

It was very very English. It was like a sort licensed national dirty joke.

Arson investigation is very slow, tedious, dirty work,

Bernie Sanders

I believe that climate change is the great global crisis that we face, environmental crisis. I believe that if you're serious about climate change, you don't encourage the excavation and transportation of very dirty oil.

The worst-kept dirty secret in the private investigative trade is that this happens with many of the big-name investigative firms in the country.

The ruling party is playing a dirty game of intimidating the electorate and undermining the opposition.

There's no way to really ration dirty laundry. It's there every week, and it has to be done. It's not like you can stockpile your laundry and wait for prices to come down.

In most hurricanes, you're talking about wind damage, lost roofs -- that kind of thing. Flooding is much more insidious. Structures are still standing, but there are devastating effects. With the dirty water, it may never be possible to repair it. You'll have to rebuild, or at least gut it.

I mean, if somebody has a dirty face and you don't say it's dirty, then they don't know to wash it.

I like (playing in the mud) a lot. You get all dirty and you look like you did something.

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.

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.

Dave Gahan

There's that side of me that wants to be the loving, caring father, and there's the other side of me that's just a dirty animal. If I don't let that out, I go nuts.

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.